Electrons orbit the nucleus of the atom in electron clouds.
"Dalton's Atomic Theory
"1) All matter is made of atoms. Atoms are indivisible and indestructible.
"2) All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties
"3) Compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms.
"4) A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms"
source: http://www.iun.edu/~cpanhd/C101webnotes/composition/dalton.html
As a victim of the Indian attacks, Mary Rowlandson wrote a vivid description (her short book, "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson") of the eleven weeks and five days she spent living with the Native Americans.
<span>Remember, at the time, it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Empire (unlike any of the other major states in Europe) was a patchwork of over a dozen major ethnic groups. Nationalism tends to organize along ethnic boundaries (that is, nations tend to form around a large concentration of one ethnic group). Thus, with a very large number of different ethnic groups, the Empire had to worry about each group wanting to split from the Empire, and form its own nation. Indeed, after WW1, this is what happened to the Empire - it was split into about a 8 different countries (or, more accurately, portions of 8 countries included lands formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).</span>
