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doctorate                     Manhattan Project
         highest academic degree       American-led project

         energy                        to develop an atomic
         stored ability to do work     weapon
         faculty                       molecule
         refers mostly to the          smallest physical unit
         teachers, and sometimes       of a material
         administrators, of a          Mount Olympus
         particular school             highest mountain

         FBI                           in Greece, where
         Federal Bureau of             the ancient Greeks
         Investigation—part            believed the gods lived
         of the US government
         that investigates crime
         gravitational lensing
         the way the path of
         light is altered by the
         gravitational force of
         a physical body
         gravity
         force that causes
         physical objects to fall      Nazi
         toward the Earth              member of the
                                       National Socialist
         Israel                        German Workers’ Party,
         Middle Eastern                which ruled Germany
         country set up in             under the direction
         1948 as a Jewish state        of Adolf Hitler



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