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Wartime Deprivations

Shortages of sugar, rum, gunpowder, textiles, tea and china were among the inconveniences suffered by colonial Americans during the Revolution. Historian Lou Powers describes the deprivations and the substitutions.




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The First Oval Office

George Washington slept here, ate here, planned here, and plotted here through the eight years of the Revolution. A joint project with the Museum of the American Revolution is reconstructing the tent that Washington called home during the war. Learn more about the great man when you see his life in the field.




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The Early Music Festival: From England to America

The 2014 Early Music Festival promises to be a lively one. With instruments, scores, and performances of an 18th-century vintage, you’ll be surrounded by the sounds of another century. Enjoy this musical preview featuring Jane Hanson and Michael Monaco from the opera “Thomas and Sally.”



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RevQuest: The King’s Advance

The thrilling RevQuest: Save The Revolution™ series opens its fifth season with a new spy plot: The King’s Advance. Dive headfirst into Revolutionary history as you join the service of secret intelligence gatherers. Gather clues, crack codes, meet with covert agents, and text your secrets to receive instructions.




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Durga Shakti Nagpal issue: Can’t interfere,issue between ‘master and servant’: HC




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Caught on camera: Akhilesh Yadav’s minister slaps youth in Varanasi



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Varanasi widows plan to send 1000 ‘rakhis’ for ‘brother’ Modi



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Amit Shah to inaugurate Modi’s public relations office in Varanasi



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Minor elopes with lover, tension prevails in Muzaffarnagar



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Youths claiming to be Varun’s supporters protest outside BJP MP’s house



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Varanasi since Narendra Modi



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Nitish dismisses speculation about Manjhi’s removal



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UP govt assures no demolition, Valmikis refuse to call off stir



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Web Directions Code ’20 session spotlight–JavaScript debugging the hard way

JavaScript debugging the hard way Marcin Szczepanski, Principal Developer Atlassian Error on line 1, column 6532112 of bundle.js? Out of memory error trying to load a CPU profile into the Chrome debugger? Two minutes to see wait and see if a change you made fixed a bug? While upgrading our complex web application from Webpack […]

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Critical role of water stability in metal–organic frameworks and advanced modification strategies for the extension of their applicability

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01321K, Critical Review
Botao Liu, Kumar Vikrant, Ki-Hyun Kim, Vanish Kumar, Suresh Kumar Kailasa
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are well known for their versatile applications in diverse fields (e.g., gas adsorption, water purification, sensing, drug delivery, and catalysis).
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Emerging investigator series: synthesis of magnesium oxide nanoparticles fabricated on a graphene oxide nanocomposite for CO2 sequestration at elevated temperatures

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, 7,1225-1239
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01442J, Paper
C. A. Gunathilake, G. G. T. A. Ranathunge, R. S. Dassanayake, S. D. Illesinghe, Amanpreet S. Manchanda, C. S. Kalpage, R. M. G. Rajapakse, D. G. G. P. Karunaratne
MONP and MONP–GO sorbents exhibited relatively high CO2 sorption capacity (2.79–3.34 mmol g−1) under elevated temperature conditions.
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Molten NaCl-induced MOF-derived carbon-polyhedron decorated carbon-nanosheet with high defects and high N-doping for boosting the removal of carbamazepine from water

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, 7,1205-1213
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01408J, Paper
Dezhi Chen, Shoujun Wang, Zhiming Zhang, Hongying Quan, Yachao Wang, Yijie Jiang, Matthew J. Hurlock, Qiang Zhang
The efficient removal of endocrine-disrupting pollutants (EDCs) from water is a crucial issue for improving the quality of drinking water.
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Amorphous phosphated titanium oxide with amino and hydroxyl bifunctional groups for highly efficient heavy metal removal

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, 7,1266-1274
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01466G, Paper
Peng Wang, Du Sun, Mingxia Deng, Shaoning Zhang, Qingyuan Bi, Wei Zhao, Fuqiang Huang
FAPTO exhibits a low pHzpc value along with abundant amino and hydroxyl bifunctional groups for efficient heavy metal removal from sewage.
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Efficacy of chitosan/double-stranded RNA polyplex nanoparticles for gene silencing under variable environmental conditions

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EN00137F, Paper
Stuart S. Lichtenberg, Kanthi Nuti, Jason DeRouchey, Olga V. Tsyusko, Jason M. Unrine
Chitosan/dsRNA polyplex nanoparticles have shown great potential as insect biocontrol agents. Here, we show that polyplex nanoparticles have their gene silencing capacity altered by environmental variables.
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Peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation on cobalt-doped TiO2 nanotubes: degradation of organics under dark and solar light irradiation conditions

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EN00131G, Paper
Jonghun Lim, Michael R. Hoffmann
The Co-TNT/PMS system enables the continuous degradation of organic pollutants under dark and solar light-irradiation conditions.
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Nanoparticulate zero valent iron interaction with dissolved organic matter impacts iron transformation and organic carbon stability

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EN00197J, Paper
Yanlong Wang, Kun Yang, Daohui Lin
Although there is an increasing use of nanoparticulate zero-valent iron (nZVI) in the remediation of contaminated soil and water environments, there is still little understanding of the mechanisms of interaction...
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Multivariate analysis of the exposure and hazard of ceria nanomaterials in indoor aquatic mesocosms

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01439J, Paper
Mohammad Nassar, Mélanie Auffan, Catherine Santaella, Armand Masion, Jérôme Rose
Associating mesocosm experimentations with multivariate analyses to identify the parameters governing the behavior and impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems.
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Silica Nanoparticles Alleviate Mercury Toxicity via Immobilization and Inactivation of Hg(II) in Soybean (Glycine max)

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EN00091D, Paper
Yunyun Li, Nali Zhu, Xujun Liang, Xu Bai, Lirong Zheng, Jiating Zhao, Yu-Feng Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Yuxi Gao
Mercury (Hg) pollution is a worldwide concern. Silica nanoparticles (Nano-SiO2) can be released into ecosystems through natural and anthropogenic (engineered Nano-SiO2) processes. Here, the influence of two sizes (30 nm...
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Emerging investigator series: Efficient Microalgae Inactivation and Growth Control by Locally Enhanced Electric Field Treatment (LEEFT)

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01366K, Paper
Peirui Liu, Jianfeng Zhou, Ting Wang, Cecilia Yu, Yu Hong, Xing Xie
Locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) has been considered as a novel and promising technology for efficient microorganism inactivation in recent years. Previous studies were primarily conducted on bacteria and...
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Heterobimetallic complexes from 0D clusters to 3D networks based on various polycyanometallates and [Cu(dmpn)2]2+ (dmpn = 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-diaminopropane): synthesis, crystal structures and magnetic properties

CrystEngComm, 2020, 22,2806-2816
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00235F, Paper
Xiaoyun Hao, Jingwen Shi, Yong Dou, Tong Cao, Zhen Zhou, Lu Yang, Dacheng Li, Qingyun Liu, Jianzhuang Jiang, Daopeng Zhang
Six new cyanide-bridged complexes (0–3D) have been assembled by employing one copper compound and six cyano precursors. Investigation of the magnetic properties revealed the ferro- or antiferromagnetic coupling between FeIII/CrI ion and CuII ion.
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Static disorder in a perovskite mixed-valence metal–organic framework

CrystEngComm, 2020, 22,2859-2865
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00119H, Paper
Ines E. Collings, Paul J. Saines, Mirko Mikolasek, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Michael Hanfland
Effects of A-site and M-site substitutions on the structural properties of perovskite dimethylammonium iron formate.
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Investigation on the interconversion from DMF-solvated to unsolvated copper(II) pyrazolate coordination polymers

CrystEngComm, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00370K, Paper
Corrado Di Nicola, Alessia Tombesi, Marco Moroni, Rebecca Vismara, Fabio Marchetti, Riccardo Pettinari, Luca Nardo, Guglielmo Vesco, Simona Galli, Silvia Casassa, Luciano Pandolfo, Claudio Pettinari
Enlarging the family of CPs with the {Cu(μ-pz)2} building unit: synthesis, thermal behaviour, crystal structure and spectroscopic properties of [Cu(μ-4-Xpz)2(μ-DMF)]n (4-Xpz = 4-Xpyrazolate, X = H, Cl, Br, I) and the non-solvated counterparts.
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Design, screening, and properties of novel solvates of azoxystrobin based on isomorphism

CrystEngComm, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00204F, Paper
Zhi-Ping Shi, Guo-Bin Ren, Ming-Hui Qi, Zhong Li, Xiaoyong Xu
Based on reported isomorphism of Azoxystrobin (AZO) solvates, five novel AZO solvates, including dimethyl succinate solvate (AZO-DMS), ethyl butyrate solvate (AZO-EB), thiophene solvate (AZO-TP), furan solvate (AZO-FN), and 1,2-diethoxyethane solvate...
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Syntheses of Nymphaea-like BiOCl with oxygen vacancies for effectively remove tetracycline hydrochloride

CrystEngComm, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00417K, Paper
Weidong Hou, Jia Yang, Haiming Xu, Dongya Li, Zhongwei Zou, Dongsheng Xia
Nymphaea-like BiOCl with oxygen vacancies (OVs) was successfully prepared by adjusting the pH of the precursor and using aspartic acid as surfactant. The as-fabricated samples were investigated by XRD, SEM,...
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Step-by-step: uncommon SCSC transformation accompanied by stepwise change in the binding of a particular ligand within a mononuclear complex upon stepwise desolvation

CrystEngComm, 2020, 22,2895-2899
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00379D, Communication
Andrey V. Gavrikov, Andrey B. Ilyukhin, Pavel S. Koroteev
Uncommon SCSC transformation when desolvation induces subtle changes within a mononuclear complex, namely a stepwise change in the binding of a particular ligand.
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Ligand modulated the variable binuclear Cd2-SBU and structures of four layered coordination frameworks

CrystEngComm, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00513D, Paper
Mengdie Wang, Jian Zhang, Yun-Kai Sun, Jing Wei, Chunhong Tan, Xiao-Feng Wang
Four layered coordination polymers, namely, [Cd2(fuma)2(phen)2] (1), [Cd2(BDC)2(phen)2]·2DMF (2), [Cd2(NDC)2(phen)2]·0.5H2O (3), [Cd2(NDC)2(bipy)2]·2DMF (4) have been synthesized under solvo-thermal conditions (fuma = fumaric acid, H2BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid, H2NDC =1,4-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid,...
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Biological activity tuning of antibacterial urotropine via co-crystallization: synthesis, biological activity evaluation and computational insight

CrystEngComm, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00226G, Paper
Nida Tabassum, Panayiotis C. Varras, Fiza Arshad, Muhammad I. Choudhary, Sammer Yousuf
Urotropine (1) is a synthetic heterocyclic antibacterial agent.
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Peculiarities of Br⋯Br bonding in crystal structures of polybromides and bromine solvates

CrystEngComm, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00288G, Paper
Anna V. Vologzhanina, Petr A. Buikin, Alexander A. Korlyukov
Analysis of supramolecular associates formed by Br⋯Br interactions in crystals of 204 polybromide and bromine-containing compounds has been carried out.
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Solvatomorphism and phase transformation of CL-20: probing properties and investigating mechanisms

CrystEngComm, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00059K, Paper
Bochen Pan, Zhanzhong Wang, Yichun Shen, Liangxiao Wei, Hongyuan Wei, Leping Dang
Five novel CL-20 solvates were prepared and fully characterized, and the solvate formation and phase transformation processes were systematically investigated.
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N-H···O Hydrogen Bonding to the Alkoxy Oxygen of a Carboxylic Ester Group: Crystal Structures of Methyl 2,6-Diaminobenzoate and Its Derivatives.

CrystEngComm, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00495B, Paper
John D. Wallis, Alun Christopher Garner, Songjie Yang
Methyl 2,6-diaminobenzoate and its bis-triphenylboron complex show hydrogen bonding from NH2 groups to both oxygen atoms of the carboxylic ester, and there is little difference in the lengths of these...
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Two Co-based MOFs assembled from an amine-functionalized pyridinecarboxylate ligand: inorganic acid-directed structural variety and gas adsorption properties

CrystEngComm, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00475H, Paper
Zhenzhen Jiang, Ping Zhou, Tingting Xu, Lihui Fan, Simin Hu, Jingxian Chen, Yabing He
A pair of Co-based MOFs exhibited inorganic acid-driven structural diversities, and one of them displayed the C2H2 separation and purification potential.
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Beyond basis basics [electronic resource] : leverage demand and deviations from the law of one price / Todd M. Hazelkorn, Tobias J. Moskowitz, Kaushik Vasudevan

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Advance market commitments [electronic resource] : insights from theory and experience / Michael Kremer, Jonathan D. Levin, Christopher M. Snyder

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Triage protocol design for ventilator rationing in a pandemic [electronic resource] : integrating multiple ethical values through reserves / Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver, M. Bumin Yenmez

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Crime, harm and consumerism [electronic resource] / edited by Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova, and Mark Horsley.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.




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Innovation and entrepreneurship in housing [electronic resource] / Edward Kung

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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A new Engel on price index and welfare estimation [electronic resource] / David Atkin, Benjamin Faber, Thibault Fally, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Firm-level exposure to epidemic diseases [electronic resource] : Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1 / Tarek Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, Ahmed Tahoun

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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A simple planning problem for COVID-19 lockdown [electronic resource] / Fernando Alvarez, David Argente, Francesco Lippi

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020




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Shakespeare and the economic imperative [electronic resource] : "what's aught but as 'tis valued?" / Peter F. Grav

New York : Routledge, 2008






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Bollywood gets romantic on Valentine's Day

Film folk celebrated Valentine's Day by posting loved-up pictures of their sweethearts on social media.