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Page 22 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
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Page 66 - Avogadro's law says that equal volumes of different gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules.
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