n English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
Pedro Martinez to join TBS postseason baseball coverage Why doesn’t Pedro Martinez — candid, current, off-the-charts charismatic, as accomplished as any contemporary player, and master of a dry, nuanced sense of humor in his second language — do TV work more often?
Sept. 13, 2013 - Boston.com
Elvira still a Halloween favorite Elvira still a Halloween favorite For 31 years, Elvira, mistress of the dark, has been vamping the world as Halloween's voluptuous vixen. With a frightful wig, self-effacing humor and all that cleavage, the glam goddess of ghoul, aka Cassandra Peterson, knows how to work a good thing . . . well . . . to death. Trivia fun fact: at 17, Peterson starred in “Vive Les Girls” at the Dunes Hotel ...
Sept. 13, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News
'GTA Online' Will Be The Most Important Part of 'Grand Theft Auto 5' We come to Grand Theft Auto for the single-player. Three characters, trademark humor, brutal anarchy and all the rest. That's what most of the trailers from Rockstar have focused on so far. But it's sneaking something else into this release as well: 'GTA Online.' We didn't hear about this until relatively late in the process, but Rockstar is already qualifying it not as the online mode to GTA 5 ...
Sept. 12, 2013 - Forbes