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Industrial engineer worked on the Manhattan Project.(Business)
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Byline: Russell Lissau
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Bertram Alan 'Buddy' Colbert ~ 1926-2008
Bertram Alan "Buddy" Colbert was a teenager when he worked on a top-secret effort that helped develop the atomic bomb.
Just out of high school, he didn't know the work he was doing for Cook Electric in Chicago was actually part of the historic Manhattan Project until after the bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945.
He just knew it was a secret government project, said his daughter, Pat Colbert.
"He was proud to be working for the ...
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Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot.".(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Eliane Viennot. Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot." Paris...biography of Marguerite de Valois--youngest daughter of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici and queen consort...eldest son. That two of Catherine de' Medici's sons died...
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The last Valois: a tragic story: Robert Knecht describes the shortcomings of Henry III, the last Valois king, and the circumstances that led him to become the first--but not the last--French monarch to die at the hands of one of his subjects.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...the next morning bringing to an end the Valois dynasty that had occupied the French throne...tyrant is dead! There is no more Henry of Valois in France!' But why and how had Henry...sixth child and fourth son of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. Born at Fontainebleau on...
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Jean-Antoine de Baif and the Valois Court.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Jean-Antoine de Baif and the Valois Court. By YVONNE ROBERTS. Bern...study of Baif's relations with Catherine de Medicis, whom he served devotedly...Henri de Navarre with Marguerite de Valois. Nevertheless, David Hartley...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Historical love story that started a dynasty; Penny Fray speaks to Aberystwyth writer Dedwydd Jones, who is trying to interest Catherine Zeta Jones in his new novel.(Arts)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...kohled eyes, Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones bears an uncanny resemblance to Henry V's wife Catherine of Valois, who later married Anglesey...FORBEARS: Emma Thompson played Catherine of Valois to Kenneth Branagh's Henry...
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The queen mother who really ruled Catherine de Medici was mother to three kings of France, and exercised more power than any of them in the religious turmoil of the 16th century, says Blair Worden Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20, 440 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...a message of congratulation to Catherine. He soon revoked it. For Catherine, he was disappointed to learn...a desperate bid to preserve the Valois dynasty and the peace of the realm. For Catherine - though in her political methods...
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LAST NIGHT'S TV - The life and strange death of a porn star
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...murder". Lolo - real name Eve Valois - is known to C4 viewers from...never been solved. Her mother, Catherine Valois, believes that Lolo's husband...continues to plead his innocence. Catherine Valois continues to accuse him. And...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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WHAT KILLED 54G LOLO?; INNER TURMOIL: SHE WAS THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE GIRL WHOSE SUICIDE BAFFLED POLICE AND SHOCKED FANS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...by Lolo's mother, Catherine Valois, who claims Eric ruthlessly...breasts in Europe. Catherine said: "My daughter...husband, instead blaming Catherine for her inner turmoil...real Lolo was born Eve Valois in the central French...
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TV Review:Ferrari driven to destruction
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...was Lolo Ferrari (real name Eve Valois), "the woman with the biggest...was loopy and didn't love her. Catherine Valois still campaigns for her son-in...possibility of strangulation. Catherine's lawyer believes Vigne killed...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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How an obsessive quest for love destroyed the star of Eurotrash.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...action against him follows a complaint by Lolo's mother Catherine Valois, who claims Vigne ruthlessly exploited her daughter...Lolo Ferrari's tragic and farcical life. Born Eve Valois in Clermont-Ferrand, central France, she moved with...
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The Tudor Queens of England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Loades begins his account with Catherine de Valois, who became Henry V's queen...spinning a continuous thread from Catherine de Valois to Elizabeth I, the author...consort became a non-person. Catherine de Valois had to resign herself to the...
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