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Adding a Dimension: 17 Essays on the History of Science by Isaac Asimov
epub |eng | 2016-01-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

100 ADDING A DIMENSION THE LIGHT THAT FAILED 101 the same it did prove the earth was moving with respect to the stars, Foucault went further. He measured the velocity ...
( Category: History & Philosophy July 31,2023 )
A Maker of History by E. Phillips Oppenheim
epub |eng | 2006-09-20 | Author:E. Phillips Oppenheim [Oppenheim, E. Phillips]

Spencer looked a little disgusted. “My dear fellow,” he said, “any one with the brains of a mouse must have discovered that. Why, Lord Runton, without any of the intimations ...
( Category: Linguistics July 31,2023 )
The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years by Philippe Aries
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Philippe Aries [Aries, Philippe]

7 The Vanities This chapter is a continuation of the previous one. It provides a different set of illustrations for the same phenomenon: the subtle distancing of a death that ...
( Category: other July 31,2023 )
In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race by Amy Cherrix
epub |eng | 2020-12-17 | Author:Amy Cherrix [Cherrix, Amy]

Chapter 29 The Russians’ “Right Stuff” In the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin didn’t look like he was trying to defeat much of anything as he lounged on a sofa ...
( Category: Education & Reference July 31,2023 )
The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 1985-04-15 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

The inhabitants of each successive period in the world’s history have beaten their predecessors in the race for life, and are, insofar, higher in the scale of nature; and this ...
( Category: other July 31,2023 )
Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History by Joe Navarro
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joe Navarro [Navarro, Joe]

12 THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING? Backstory: She-Moody and I leave Orlando a little after one-thirty in the morning, arrive at the Tampa FBI office (where I wake up Terry and walk ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage July 31,2023 )
The Information: A Theory, A History, A Flood by James Gleick
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

Put another way, H is a measure of surprise. Put yet another way, H is the average number of yes-no questions needed to guess the unknown message. Shannon had it ...
( Category: History July 31,2023 )
The Great Cat Massacre, and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Darnton [Darnton, Robert]

In short, d‘Hémery took stock of the literary world with sympathy, humor, and an appreciation of literature itself. He shared some of the values held by the people under his ...
( Category: France July 31,2023 )
The Martians Have Landed!: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes by Robert E. Bartholomew
epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Robert E. Bartholomew [Bartholomew, Robert E.]

27. Photos of the Gods (Clarke) 147 A “miracle photograph” of a statue of Jesus at Holy Love Ministries near Cleveland, Ohio, taken in 2007 by a pilgrim. The photographer, ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions July 31,2023 )
Ancient Giants: History, Myth, and Scientific Evidence From Around the World by Xaviant Haze
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Xaviant Haze [Haze, Xaviant]

I found among other tools a great club weighing 21 lbs. displaying a handle chipped out to form a gripping surface and thumb rest for a mighty hand larger than ...
( Category: Archaeology July 31,2023 )
A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book by John Barton
epub |eng | 2019-06-04 | Author:John Barton [Barton, John]

But rabbinic Judaism, the style of Judaism that is the precursor of what we now think of as Orthodox Judaism, tended to lose interest in messianic prophecy except in certain ...
( Category: other July 31,2023 )
The Secret History of the Hell-Fire Clubs: From Rabelais and John Dee to Anton LaVey and Timothy Leary by Geoffrey Ashe
epub |eng | 2019-07-20 | Author:Geoffrey Ashe [Ashe, Geoffrey]

WOMEN OF THE ABBEY The wenching is the part of their revelry that is least in dispute, and yet, in a way, it remains the most mysterious. Of course there ...
( Category: Occultism July 31,2023 )
The Panda’s Thumb: More Relctions in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 1980-04-15 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

It has been charged upon the views here advanced that they tend to the support of slavery…. Is that a fair objection to a philosophical investigation? Here we have to ...
( Category: other July 31,2023 )
Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson by Thomas J. Carey
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Thomas J. Carey [Carey, Thomas J.]

CHAPTER 11 Project Stork: The Secret Project That Never Existed On December 26, 1951, the newly appointed Ruppelt and ATIC’s Technical Analysis Division Chief, Colonel S.H. Kirkland, met with administrators ...
( Category: Americas July 31,2023 )
Ancient Post-Flood History: Historical Documents That Point to Biblical Creation by Ken Johnson
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Ken Johnson [Johnson, Ken]

Feinius’ son, Niul, went from Babylonia to Egypt to set up a school of languages on the Red Sea. He married Scota, the daughter of a pharaoh. Scota gave birth ...
( Category: General July 31,2023 )

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