Search results for "The Pioneers" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • who made important early contributions to the development of radar. He served ... Not only did radar greatly assist the Allies in the world war, but ...
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  • Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, by both ... for geopolitical rivalries, particularly the Cold War. The early era of ...
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  • The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote ... The desert image of the outback belies the land's natural riches—gold ...
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  • the 1850s until the 1870s, and many of the pioneers in the reed organ industry ... Catalogue states: "We are the pioneers and leading manufacturers ...
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  • eighteenth century. He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition ... He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition, orchestrating ...
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  • 1916) was an American educator, dedicated to the education of young children ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...
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  • She believed that children lacked the experience needed to make ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...
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  • of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ... A central aim of Constructivist architects was to instill the avant ...
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  • To appreciate the value and the richness of the Korean Sirhak, one ... deserve our admiration for having been the pioneers of the Sirhak not just ...
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  • gulag survivor. He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak ... The trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky was the beginning of another period ...
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  • The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The Kinneret is fed by underground springs, but its main source is ...
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  • "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...
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  • using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical ... electromechanical designs and they paved the way for the later emergence ...
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  • genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans ... fans showed no desire to learn about the pioneers he learned from. The 1950s ...
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  • wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what would ... His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to ...
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  • was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and experimental ... Bartlett was born in 1886 in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England ...
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  • school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... who founded Bellewood Female Seminary. The Hill parents tried to provide ...
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  • American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the ...
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  • Mathematical logic is often divided into the subfields of model theory ... One unifying theme in mathematical logic is the study of the expressive ...
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  • a dwarf, Webb was able to become perhaps the most powerful drummer of the ... for a greater wealth of top soloists, the bouncy energy and special ...
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  • A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...
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  • it has specific rules and etiquette for the dancers to follow. different types of dance, with origins in the many kinds of dances that ...
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  • The term soft drink—more commonly known as soda, pop, or soda pop ... (though not always) carbonated. By contrast, the term "hard drink" ...
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  • In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... workers in this area include one of the pioneers of computational chemistry ...
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  • Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along ... Big Sur's boundaries are loosely defined; many definitions of ...
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  • is a general term which refers to change in the nature, the social institutions ... in society. If the initiatives of the pioneers succeed, then it encourages ...
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  • on mathematical physics. He introduced the idea of electrical potential ... mechanics with great success. One of the pioneers of this application was ...
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  • his work on analog computing, his role in the development of the atomic ... to Richard Perry Bush (unrelated to the Bush political family) and ...
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  • Giovanni Battista Belzoni, from Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries ... Belzoni is regarded as one of the pioneers of Egyptology, whose work ...
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  • 21, 1880 – May 29, 1961) was a pioneer in the field of child development ... influence of G. Stanley Hall, one of the pioneers in the study of child ...
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  • a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...
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  • 300px|The old Co-operative building behind the Gateshead Millennium Bridge ... or co-op) is defined as a business owned by the people who use its services ...
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  • [[Image:Carnarvon.jpg|thumb|250px|Lord Carnarvon, who was the chief ... with any success. Therefore, he financed the work of Howard Carter, a collaboration ...
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  • The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...
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  • Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...
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  • writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and ... Egyptian civil officer, worked as a judge in the judiciary in the Egyptian ...
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  • Louise Lang, and Yale Joel at a cafe in the Bois de Boulogne after World ... Seymour was one of the pioneers of the fast moving, front-line, battle ...
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  • photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism ... Pound dubbed a "Vortoscope," and the resulting photographs "Vortographs ...
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  • Although he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...
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  • born British entrepreneur and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency ... An innovator in the field, he still recognized the need to cooperate ...
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  • The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... Great Britain had become a dominant colonial power during the eighteenth ...
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  • vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of abolitionist Henry ... Stone was born on the August 13, 1818, on her family's Massachusetts ...
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  • Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state ... Utah's pivotal central western location makes the state a natural ...
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  • French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ... of new discoveries about energy, including the newly recognized X-rays of ...
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  • for his "Knightian uncertainty," the distinction between risk and ... high school but was admitted in 1905 to the American University in Tennessee ...
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  • Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ... as his eldest son's, he was one of the pioneers of the waltz as a serious ...
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  • United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range ... square km—over 3.4 million acres), it is the largest national park in the ...
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  • February 10, 1923) was a German physicist of the University of Würzburg. On ... Despite the fame he achieved for his discovery, Röntgen chose the ...
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  • study of dissociative disorders laid the foundation for analytical ... Paul Janet, a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and a devoted follower ...
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  • sociologist, and historian, one of the pioneers of the school of institutional ... Commons' work, improving the life of labor class, formed a substantial ...
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