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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The circus performer definition was, indeed, the only one in American Heritage for some time. But now, that definition is No. 2 ...
The British poet and alchemist Thomas Norton used the word "attoms" in his 1477 poem, The Ordinal of Alchemy. Historian Howard Markel explains how Norton came to use the word, and points out earlier ...
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