His goals are to show that what happened was wrong and that it did short- and long-term harm that outweighed the myopic calculations of policymakers at the time. The result is a seriously overstated case. Yes, many perpetrators, especially rank- and file shooters and camp guards, escaped ...
This is the local outreach in a modern, rich city. Many Chinese growing up in such cities don’t even know how poor and harsh living conditions still are in remote villages. It’s not absolute poverty anymore, but it’s nowhere near the first-world living standard enjoyed in China by hu...
Bendick, Jeanne. How much and how many. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1947. 188 p. $2.25No abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1002/sce.3730370238NoneJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Science Education
Palm burst into Hitler’s apartment to find it empty. The date was April 29th, 1945. The Führer was in his bunker many miles to the north inBerlin, just hours away from suicide. A more mundane weapon, and not the golden gun, was used in that act. Lieutenant Palm made his way intoH...
[of New York City’s legendary radio station WNEW-FM], there would be no Meat Loaf.” The promotional effort was aided by many WNEW-FM broadcasts, similar support from WMMS in Cleveland, WMMR in Philadelphia and national radio broadcasts that ultimately exposed Meat Loaf’s album to a ...
Maxwell's theoretical treatment of electromagnetic radiation, including its description of light waves, was so elegant and predictive that many physicists in the 1890s thought that there was nothing more to say about light and how it worked. Then, on Dec. 14, 1900, Max Planck came along and...
Patricia White Bull's story is just one of many amazing stories of coma recovery. In April of 2005, Donald Herbert had a surprising awakening. The firefighter was severely injured in 1995 when the roof of a burning building collapsed on him. He remained in a coma for ten years. However,...
Many common drugs were created to treat different ailments: a candidate for treating angina with a remarkable side effect found a higher calling as Viagra! I'm sorry to say that 'serendipity' was voted to be one of...
The same summer, Duane Allman bought his first motorcycle, a small Harley. Gregg remembers the bike with a bittersweet smile and a small shake of the head. “Duane was sure a bastard when he was a kid,” Gregg says with real admiration. “He quit school, I don’...
But as the Palace of Westminster became the center of English royal government and ceremony, so the Abbey became the place where coronations and many royal burials were held." During the Reformation, King Henry VIII dissolved all the English monasteries. The Abbey is now something known as a ...