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...r force (GAF) monograph project, also known as the Karlsruhe project, through which the US Air Force employed former Luftwaffe generals to record the history of World War II from the German perspective....

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...1 AN OVERVIEW OF AMERICAN WORLD WAR II OFFICIAL MILITARY HISTORY PROJECTS . . . .1 The von Rohden Project (1945–47) . . . . . . . 4 The Naval Historical Team, Bremerhaven (1949–52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The US Army’s German Military History Program (1...

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... Physicist 56 HENRY MOSELEY (1887 - 1915) American Physicist 56 GYORGY HEVESY (1885 - 1966) Hungarian Chemist 57 RUDOLF SCHOENHEIMER (1898 - 1941) German-American Biochemist 57 MIKHAIL TSVETT (1872 - 1919) Russian-Italian Chemist 57 RICHARD WILLSTATTER (1872 - 1942) German Chemist 57 FRANK H. SPEDDING (1902 - 1984) American Chemist 57 ARCHER J. MARTIN (1910 - 2002) ...

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...fic developments in mathematics, physics and astronomy from the Classic Greek Era to the present time. It discusses and illustrates the 2,000-year history in the development of the great ideas, concepts and laws that revolutionized our scientific world. It also emphasizes how the new scientific concepts contributed to the logical development of the various sciences. ...

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...2 - 1944) - ENGLISH ASTROPHYSICIST AND MATHEMATICIAN 216 EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE (1889 - 1953) AMERICAN ASTRONOMER 219 WALTER BAADE (1893 - 1960) GERMAN-AMERICAN ASTRONOMER 222 SIR EDWARD VICTOR APPLETON (1892 - 1965) ENGLISH PHYSICIST 225 GEORGES LEMAITRE (1894 - 1966) BELGIAN ASTRONOMER AND PRIEST 227 GEORGE GAMOW (1904 - 1968) RUSSIAN-AMERICAN PHYSICIST 23...

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...The 2000 year history of the atom and chemistry, from the Classic Greek Era to the present, is described in 800 pages, depicted with some 300 pictures and illustrations. This history of the atom and chemistry discusses the lives of abou...

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...and purpose. The word RENAISSANCE signifies the rebirth of the glorious world of science as we enter the 21st Century. The word STORY, instead of HISTORY, was selected to allow the literary, philosophical and scientific licenses, which gave us the freedom to explore the domain of CHEMISTRY without becoming dull, oblivious and obtuse, but with a sense of joyfulness, fas...

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... 355 GYORGY HEVESY (1885-1966) Hungarian Chemist 355 Introduced the radioisotope tracing technique in Chemistry. RUDOLF SCHOENHEIMER (1898-1941) German-American Biochemist 357 Pioneered the use of the radioisotope tracing technique. Characterized the biochemistry of fat metabolism. CHROMATOGRAPHY AS AN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE 359 MIKHAIL S. TSVETT (TSWETT) (1872-...

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... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...All one had were one's concoctions of plausible scenarios about the person's history and how he or she might behave from empirical personal experience... ...o one's whore. She just painted and studied toward a Master's degree in art history, passively delegating the obstructive clutter of motherhood and a... ...e hour and yet he had no career aspirations. His Bachelor's degree in music history was worthless. He probably had no special aptitude for teaching ...

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...G-POINT OF MY LIFE ................................................................................................................... 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK ......................................................................................................... 95 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION........................................................................

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............................................. ................ 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK .......................................................... .......................................... ........... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY ...................................................................... ... must be a genuinely and utterly self sacrific ing act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many years before you. Sear... ...sh, and ended in producing a surprising fruitage—in the fields of war. The history of man is full of such accidents. The accident of a broken leg brou... ...ween man and the Unrevealed. O.M. That is what she surely does. In all his history the aboriginal Australian never thought out a house for him self a...

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... Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in history—childish at- tempts to sow suspicion between the Allies, and still ... ...should I think choose the figure of General Joffre. He is something new in history. He is leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- ti... ...he thing I have called the Effigy, is not new but old, the oldest thing in history, the departing thing. It depends not upon the advance of the specie... ...ies; it was rather like leaving a card on Gibbon en route for contemporary history. By devious routes I went on to certain batteries of big guns which... ...ov- able object. And the outcome has been the biggest military mine in all history. The business began in January, 1916, with surveys of the rock in q...

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...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin... ... the paradox of the time. It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed... ... thrilled with the sense that now her mo- ment had come. Once again in the history of progress it seemed she held the decisive weapon. Now she might s... ...of the air- ship and the last fight of those strangest things in the whole history of war: the ironclad battleships, which began their ca- reer with t... ...siatic swords- man. The Asiatic invasion of America completely effaced the German-American conflict. It vanishes from history. At first it had seemed ...

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...nt, or remark with the phrase, “Do you understand me, gen’lemen?” Freye, a German-American, was a quiet fellow, very handsome, with black side whis- k... ... Chicago, but of every city in the Union, exploited him for “stories.” The history of his corner, how he had effected it, its chronology, its re- sult... ...on took his taxes, as if by right of birth. Somewhere, in a long-forgotten history of his brief school days, he had come across a phrase that he remem... ...awful—down there, these days. He says that it is the greatest fight in the history of La Salle Street. Has Mr. Jadwin, said any- thing to you? Is he g...