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The Principle of Relativity, Einstein
The book is a chronology of the development of the theory of Relativity. Starting with Lorentz' papers on Michelson's interference experiment and electomagnetic phenomena... |
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E = MC2, Relativity Theory, Einstein
Einstein reported a remarkable consequence of his special theory of relativity: if a body emits a certain amount of energy, then the mass of that body must decrease by a... |
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Bloody Sunday, Massacre St. Petersburg
Bloody Sunday was an incident on 22 January 1905 O.S. 9 January in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Ni... |
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Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians
Astrid of Sweden was the Queen consort of King Leopold III of the Belgians. She was the third daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Westrogothia, and his wife Princess Ingebor... |
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Gerard Kuiper, Astronomer
Kuiper is considered to be the father of modern planetary science for his wide ranging studies of the solar system. Although he contributed to astrophysics, established t... |
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905-1976) was arguably the most secretive and self-destructive man ever to win fame in Southern California’s two glamour industries --- movies... |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher
Recognizing a connection between the principles of existentialism and the more practical concerns of social and political struggle, Sartre wrote not only philosophical tr... |
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Albert Speer, German Architect
Albert Speer was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief archit... |
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Max Schmeling, German Boxer
Max Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing and b... |
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San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of northern California at 5:12am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The mos... |
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Aisin-Gioro Puyi, Last Emperor of China
Aisin-Gioro Puyi was the Xuantong Emperor of China between 1908 and 1924 (ruling emperor between 1908 and 1912, and non-ruling emperor between 1912 and 1924), the tenth (... |
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Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century, versatile Dmitry Shostakovich's involvement with film began in the early '20s whi... |
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Josephine Baker, Entertainer and Singer
Josephine Baker sashayed onto a Paris stage during the 1920s with a comic, yet sensual appeal that took Europe by storm. Famous for barely-there dresses and no-holds-barr... |
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Samuel Beckett Timeline
In the 1950s and 1960s, Beckett's playwriting continued with a series of masterpieces, including Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, and Happy Days. He involved himself in variou... |
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Hans Bethe, Physicist
Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. During World War II,... |
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