Tuva
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Tuva, Russia Tyva/Tannu‐Tuva Formerly a province and now a republic named after the Tuvans. It was part of the Chinese Empire in 1757–1911 before falling to the Russians. It was independent as the Tannu‐Tuva People's Republic in 1921–44 when it was annexed by the Soviet Union and established as an autonomous province; it became an autonomous republic in 1961. The first part of the previous name recognized the Tannu‐Ola mountain range.
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Physicist Richard Feynman, 69, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/17/1988; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/5/2005; ; 700+ words
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Classic Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character. (CD included).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2005; 435 words
; 0393061329 Classic Feynman; adventures of a curious character. (CD included) Feynman, Richard Phillips. W.W. Norton 2006 511 pages...American Nobel laureate physicist Feynman (1918-88) are compiled from...
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Brilliant scientist and teacher of teachers.
Magazine article from: World and I; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...nature. The making of a scientist Richard Phillips Feynman was born to Melville Arthur and Lucille Phillips Feynman on May 11, 1918, in...sister, Joan, who was born when Richard was nine, was close to him and...
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Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...can be understood visually. The American physicist Richard Feynman gave his name to a series of seminal diagrams--also...temperature, size and luminosity. Like Venn in education and Feynman in physics, the diagram alone allows the mysterious...
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THE A-BOMB KID
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 12/17/2003; ; 700+ words
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Letters from readers.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 12/29/1996; 700+ words
; ...20th-century American mind, Richard Feynman. When a friend expressed his concern with Feynman's approaching death to cancer, Feynman replied: "I am not afraid...So is it with Sagan. - Bill Phillips, Minneapolis. Eric Ringham...
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CALENDAR: APRIL 19-25
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/19/2005; 700+ words
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THE '80S -- A RICH AND VARIED CHAPTER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/31/1989; ; 700+ words
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It's an Easy Call for Baseball: Let the Umpires Walk
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/16/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...umpires," retorted Phillips, "then the umpires...and too beholden to Phillips, whose leadership style...The late physicist Richard Feynman wrote that, in science...scandal? For years, Phillips made sense. I ate crabs...
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Richard Phillips Feynman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Richard Phillips Feynman The theoretical work of the American physicist Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) opened up the doors to research in quantum electrodynamics...
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Feynman, Richard Phillips
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918–88) US theoretical...An inspiring teacher and orator, Feynman was professor of theoretical physics...he introduced a graphic technique ( Feynman diagrams ) for illustrating the electromagnetic...
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Feynman, Richard (1918-1988)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...Challenger disaster. Feynman received the 1965...Sciences (1954). Richard Phillips Feynman was born in Queens...parents were Lucille Phillips and Melville Feynman, a clothing salesman...bargained for, for Richard's younger sister...
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American Association of Physics Teachers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...Anne Jackson, Murray Gell-Mann, Enrico Fermi, and Richard P. Feynman. The AAPT also awards numerous grants, endowments...American Association of Physics Teachers. Newell-Phillips, Melba, ed. 1985. Physics History from AAPT Journals...
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