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Continental Congress thrust into forefront; Tensions explode, which makes it the de facto government
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Sometimes it's not where you stand, but where (and when) you sit.
Imagine that it is mid-April 1775 and you have just been elected
to the Second Continental Congress of America, representing your
colony - not yet state - in what is not yet the United States but
still a part of the British Empire.
As you head for Philadelphia, where this Second Continental
Congress is convening, you are keenly aware of the growing tensions
between the 13 American colonies and the British government.
The British government has attempted to usurp certain rights that
you and your fellow colonists always have ...
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HERMANN J. OBERTH, 95 WAS GERMAN ROCKET SCIENTIST
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; NUREMBERG, West Germany - Hermann Julius Oberth, a pioneer of the space age who worked with Werhner...short illness, according to a statement from the Hermann Oberth Museum in Feucht. He began experiments on a conical...
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Dr. Martin Weisskopf of NASA Marshall receives Hermann Oberth Award for scientific achievement.
M2 Presswire
; ...Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has received the Hermann Oberth Award for scientific achievement. Weisskopf is the...founding father of rocketry and modern astronautics, Hermann Julius Oberth, who pioneered methods for designing rockets that...
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DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; HERMANN J. OBERTH Rocket Scientist Hermann Julius Oberth, 95, a pioneer of the space age who worked with Wernher von Braun to help develop Germany's V-2 rocket during World War II, died Dec. 29 at a hospital in Nuremberg, West Germany...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, architect, 1852; Walter Hermann Nernst, physicist, 1864; Robert Erskine Childers...actor, director, writer and producer, 1887; Hermann Julius Oberth, rocket pioneer, 1894; Louis, first Earl Mountbatten...
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History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Thirtieth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, China, 1996.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Air Power History
; ...travel. Karlheinz Rohrwild examines the likelihood that Hermann Oberth launched a small, liquid propellant rocket in 1935...aircraft model by RAE-Vickers during the late 1940s. Julius Braun ponders the relative success of the first Redstone...
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