FUCHS

Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs

(noun) British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Fuchs, n. Etym: [G., prop., a fox.] (German Univ.)

Definition: A student of the first year.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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7 May 2025

RUNNER

(noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; “he sent a runner over with the contract”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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