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Christine de Pizan, France's memorialist persona, performance, memory.
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This study deals with the ways that Christine de Pizan (c. 1365-1430) transformed her personal memories of King Charles V into an enduring form of national memory by allying her 1404 biography of Charles with official French history. To legitimize her role as royal biographer, Christine created a double-gendered persona evocative of Mary and Christ and Mary and David. Her persona allowed her (1) to 'give birth' metaphorically to the idea of a 'wise king' capable of guiding the nascent 'nation' of France mentioned in the official history, and (2) to unite symbolically the ...
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Boeing CEO Receives International Aerospace Award.
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; ...received the 1999 International von Karman Wings award of The Aerospace Historical...Established in 1985, the annual von Karman award recognizes "significant...and honors the memory of Dr. Theodor von Karman, one of the recognized leaders...
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Obituary: Professor Leslie Howarth
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...into another topic, also related to the drag on a body - turbulence. With Professor Theodor von Karman, he wrote a paper on what has come to be called the Karman-Howarth relation; the paper remains to this day one of the few enduring papers in...
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Marginalized Jews learned to think 'outside the box'
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News
; ...group of scientists ... who played leading roles in modern physics ..." - Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard and Theodor von Karman. The obituary omitted the fact that the entire group were Jews, albeit with pure Hungarian names...
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OBITUARY: Professor Eugene Wigner
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...his study. One of his schoolmates, John (Jancsi) von Neumann, though by a few years his junior, tutored...Hevesy, the inventor Dennis Gabor and the aerodynamicist Theodor von Karman. For a short period, in 1919, Hungary became a Soviet...
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OTTO BOCK HELPED MAKE ARNOLD'S G-RANGE A NATIONAL DEFENSE ASSET
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; ...was assigned to the von Karman facility, which was the...facility at that time." The von Karman facility includes high...convince his boss, Dr. Theodor Zobel, to incorporate...ranges of the center's von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility...
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