McMath–Pierce Solar Telescope
McMath–Pierce Solar Telescope The world's largest solar telescope, part of the
National Solar Observatory, opened in 1962 at an altitude of 2100 m on Kitt Peak, Arizona. The main telescope is housed in a diagonal shaft, 152 m long, aligned parallel with the Earth's axis. A heliostat on a tower 30.5 m high reflects sunlight down this shaft to a 1.6-m mirror, some 50 m below ground level. Rays are bounced from this mirror part-way up the shaft again to a flat mirror, which diverts the light vertically downwards to form a solar image 0.8 m wide in an observation room below ground. It is named after the American solar physicists Robert Raynolds McMath (1891–1962) and A(ustin) Keith Pierce (1918–2005).
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British union with France? Sacre bleu!
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 1/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...proposal which French Prime Minister Guy Mollet put perfectly seriously to Anthony...French Prime Minister, Monsieur Mollet was recently in London he raised...France." A flabbergasted Eden turned Mollet down flat but the Frenchman did not...
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France 1956: the decisive moment: Martin Evans looks at the events of 1956 and the French war on terror, both at home and elsewhere, and how this was a turning point for French fortunes in the Algerian War of Independence.
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...President Coty eventually looked to Guy Mollet, the secretary-general of the...dominant party in the coalition. Mollet was invested as prime minister on...backed hair and black-rimmed glasses Guy Mollet had an owl-like demeanour that...
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Beyond the Chunnel: Did France, Britain Nearly Join?
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 1/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...dilemmas, French Prime Minister Guy Mollet suggested the union in 1956, and...Help us understand what would lead Guy Mollet to make this proposal. Prof. VINEN...re maybe just personal things. Guy Mollet was an English teacher. He was quite...
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The sheer Gaul of France's bid to woo Britain
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 1/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...the then French Prime Minister Guy Mollet arrived in London for talks with...then, reveal that the anglophile Mollet came to London with an amazing proposal...Eden turned down the proposal, and Mollet later came up with a second suggestion...
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'Tortured' French romance nearly became marriage; INTERNATIONAL NEWS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 1/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...10, 1956, French Prime Minister Guy Mollet came to London to discuss the possibility...Commonwealth'' "That Monsieur Mollet had not thought there need be difficulty...Selwyn Lloyd' French Prime Minister Guy Mollet, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden...
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France sought union with Britain, files show
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...that former French Prime Minister Guy Mollet discussed the possibility of a merger...documents. One document added that Mollet "had not thought there need be difficulty...seemed particularly approachable to Mollet, a former English teacher. But...
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Documents reveal France wanted to join UK in the aftermath of WW11
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 1/16/2007; 492 words
; ...claim that in 1956 French Premier Guy Mollet asked his British counterpart, Sir...together. When Eden said "Non", Mollet asked him whether France could be...paper said. On September 10, 1956, Mollet travelled to London to discuss the...
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British Papers Reveal French Eyed Union
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...that former French Prime Minister Guy Mollet discussed the possibility of a merger...documents. One document added that Mollet "had not thought there need be difficulty...seemed particularly approachable to Mollet, a former English teacher. But...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1956: Mendes-France Quits
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/24/2006; 356 words
; ...France, Minister of State in Premier Guy Mollet's Cabinet, resigned his Vice...in the administration of Premier Mollet, a Socialist, M. Mendes-France...proposed a list of such reforms to M. Mollet. The immediate effects of M. Mendes...
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An unlikely marriage: how France proposed to the UK
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 1/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...1956, the French Prime Minister, Guy Mollet, a Socialist and an Anglophile...his civil servants less so. M. Mollet then came back with another idea...and the discussion was forgotten. Guy Mollet is best remembered in France as the...
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Guy Mollet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Guy Mollet , 1905-75, French politician. A former...Communist cabinet of socialists and radicals, Mollet pursued a pro-European foreign policy...signifcant role in the Algerian crisis. Mollet was secretary-general of the Socialist...
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Mollet, Guy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Mollet, Guy (b. 31 Dec. 1905, d. 3 Oct. 1975). Prime Minister of France 1956–7 Son of a textile worker, he joined the...
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Arab–Israel War (1956)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...at the invitation of the French, David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, and Moshe Dayan met with French prime minister Guy Mollet and British foreign minister Selwyn Lloyd at S è vres to plan the joint campaign, in which Israeli forces were...
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Suez Crisis (1956–1957)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...preliminary diplomatic measures had to be taken. While British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and French Prime Minister Guy Mollet interpreted these measures as preparation of the military operation, American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
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