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Just So Stories, Kipling
These are questions that children around the world have asked for centuries, but it took Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's lively, hilarious stories to give them answe... |
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Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic be... |
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Karl Popper, Philosophy of Science
The most important philosopher of science since Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Sir Karl Popper finally solved the puzzle of scientific method, which in practice had never see... |
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Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max... |
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Tour de France: The official website
Race of legend in world cycling, Le Tour de France is one of the premier events attracting the widest worldwide media coverage. It is also a great popular festival where... |
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World Series, Baseball
It all began 100 years ago with a gentlemen's challenge. Two Major Leagues -- an established one called the "National" and a newcomer called the "American." The owners of... |
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Wright brothers, First Flying Airplane
Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright Brothers conducted a program of aeronautica research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 190 an... |
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George Orwell
English novelist, essayist and critic, famous for his political satires ANIMAL FARM (1945), an anti-Soviet tale, and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949), which shows that the des... |
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John von Neumann, Mathematician
John von Neumann was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechani... |
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Printed Circuit Board History
The printed circuit board hsitory from printed wire in 1903 to multi-layer printed circuit boards of the 1980's.... |
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FIA : Fédération Int. de l'Automobile
"The FIA is the voice of more than 100 million motorists from 120 countries world-wide." The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) is the voice of the motorist.... |
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The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard is a famous play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov which premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre on January 17, 1904. The play revolves around Madame Rane... |
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Oppenheimer, Inventor Atomic Bomb
Upon hearing of discovery of fission in 1939, J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately grasped the possibility of atomic bombs. In 1941, he was brought into the atomic bomb proj... |
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Johnny Weissmuller, Tarzan
Johnny Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships an... |
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Salvador Dali
Dali, Salvador, Spanish painter, writer, and member of the surrealist movement. Dali's paintings are characterized by meticulous draftsmanship and realistic detail, with... |
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