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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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Willem de Kooning
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1904. Following formal studies in fine and applied art at the Rotterdam A... |
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Deng Xiaoping, Leader of China
One of the old guard of the Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping became the party's Secretary General in 1954, but was purged by Chairman Mao in 1966 for his strong obj... |
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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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