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Karl Ferdinand Braun
Karl Ferdinand Braun , 1850-1918, German physicist. Braun taught at the Univ. of Marburg, Strasbourg Univ., Karlsruhe's Technische Hochschule, and the Univ. of Tübingen before being named director of Physics institute at Strasbourg in 1895. He conducted researches in electricity (an electromete...
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Eva Braun
Eva Braun , 1912-45, mistress and later wife of the German dictator Adolf Hitler. She was a shop assistant to a Nazi photographer, through whom she met Hitler. She entered his household in 1936, although their relationship was kept secret. She had no influence on the government. Hitler married her i...
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Chronicles
Chronicles two books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon (the final book of that canon), called First and Second Chronicles in the Authorized Version, and called First and Second Paralipomenon in the Septuagint and in the Vulgate . Their author is referred to simply as the...
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Chronicles
Chronicles two books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon (the final book of that canon), called First and Second Chronicles in the Authorized Version, and called First and Second Paralipomenon in the Septuagint and in the Vulgate . Their author is referred to simply as the...
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Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun , 1912-77, German-American rocket expert, b. Germany, grad. Berlin Technological Institute (B.S., 1932), Univ. of Berlin (Ph.D., 1934). Devoted to the pursuit of rocketry and spaceflight since his teenage years, von Braun assisted Hermann Oberth after 1930 in early experiments in...
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Hermann Julius Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberth 1894-1989, Austro-German astronautical pioneer, b. Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary (now Sibiu, Romania). Beginning his studies in astronautics before World War I, he first proposed a liquid-propellant rocket in 1917 and in 1923 published his unsuccessful Ph.D. dissertation, T...
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electoral college
electoral college in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senato...
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American Federation of Teachers
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. It was formed (1916) out of the belief that the organizing of teachers should follow the model of a labor union, rather than that of a professional association. From the 1960s to the late 1990s the AFT grew from 55,000 to 907,000 m...
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Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese
Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese , 1874-1937, Italian physicist, celebrated for his development of wireless telegraphy (see radio ). In the field of electromagnetic waves he correlated and improved inventions of H. R. Hertz , Édouard Branly, and other scientists and invented a practical antenna....
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Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Meyerhold , 1874-1940?, Russian theatrical director and producer. Meyerhold led the revolt against naturalism in the Russian theater. Working with the Moscow Art Theater , he experimented with his own directing ideas until the outbreak of the Revolution. Meyerhold was a member of the Bolsh...
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