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President Nixon: Alone in the White House. (Political booknotes: solitary scribbler).
Washington Monthly
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December 1, 2001|
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PRESIDENT NIXON: Alone in the White House
by Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster, $35.00
THE SCRIBBLERS, THE SCHOLARS, and the scribes may at last be able to come to closure with Richard Nixon. They have been on his case for a half-century without ever getting in a knockout punch; indeed, the only U.S. president ever forced to resign came oh-so-close to salvaging his shattered reputation before he died. The shelves already groan under the weight of books, articles, tapes, and transcripts.
So why bother with another? Why take one more shot at the Old ...
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From world leader to dereliction; Ex-worker chronicles plant history.(News)
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; ...Newcastle. The decline of Parsons, which built turbine...former headquarters of Sir Charles Algernon Parsons's empire crashed...factory, founded by Sir Charles Parsons, the inventor...employee newspapers. Sir Charles was one of Britain...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; TODAY Births: Sir Richard Fanshawe, diplomat...and historian, 1802; Charles Kingsley, novelist...William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1837; the...Rugby School, 1795; Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam...
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On This Day.
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; June 13th June 13, 1854: Birth of Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine: Parsons entered the Armstrong engineering works...other electrical apparatus. The turbine Parsons invented in 1884 was applied to a ship...
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ARCHIVE
Magazine article from: Professional Engineering
; The quest to make diamonds Sir Charles Algernon Parsons was an engineer of wide and varied...should not have been sufficient. Parsons became interested in this area...before he tackled the problem. Parsons later carried out hundreds of...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Walters, courtesan, 1839; Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine...committed suicide by drowning 1886; Sir Henry (O'Neal de Hane) Segrave, racing driver, killed 1930; Charles Butterworth, actor, 1946; Gaston...
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Late 19th century mothered inventions
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...had been in use for half a century. An American, Charles Martin Hall, and Paul Heroult, a Frenchman, in...witnessed the construction of the first steam turbine by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1884) and the first contact lenses made of blown...
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The 1880s mothered inventions
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Austrian ophthalmologist K. Koller. An American, Charles Martin Hall, and Paul Heroult, a Frenchman, in...witnessed the construction of the first steam turbine by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1884) and the first contact lenses made of blown...
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THEME OF THE DAY.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Death of Alexander the Great; 1795: Birth of Dr Thomas Arnold, head of Rugby School; 1854: Birth of Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine; 1865: Birth of Irish poet William Butler Yeats; 1900: Rebels in China...
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Why I salute the Major; television mail.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...design of warship propellers, eventually solved by the great engineer and inventor of the steam turbine, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons. I confess I still wouldn't take cavitation as my specialist subject on Mastermind, but thanks to Corrigan...
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Life of major works.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; Charles Algernon Parsons is credited with the invention...apprenticeship at the works of Sir William Armstrong and Co...In 1889 he founded CA Parsons & Co at Heaton, Newcastle...1894 he established the Parsons Marine Steam Company in...
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