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Otto Kretschmer (1912 - 1998)
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Flotilla Admiral Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 - 5 August 1998) was a German U-boat commander in the Second World War and later an admiral in the Bundesmarine. From September 1939 until being captured in March 1941, he sank 47 ships, a total of 274,333 tons. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_...
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David Livingstone
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Dr. Livingstone's lost 1871 'massacre' diary recovered; discovery rewrites history In Africa 140 years ago, David Livingstone, the Victorian explorer, met Henry M. Stanley of the New York Herald and gave him a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 i...
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Ian Ridpath
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Ian William Ridpath (born 1 May 1947, Ilford, Essex) is an English science writer and broadcaster made famous for his investigation and explanation of the Rendlesham Forest Incident of December 1980. He is editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy and Norton's Star Atlas, and author of observi...
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Martha Jane Canary (1852 - 1903)
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Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Indians. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
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Jacques Laskar
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Jacques Laskar (born 28 April 1955 in Paris) is a French astronomer. He is currently a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and a member of Astronomy and dynamical systems of the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Computing Ephemerides (IMCCE) of the P...
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928 - 1997)
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. Read more
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Léopold Eyharts
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Léopold Eyharts is a Brigadier General in the French Air Force and an ESA astronaut. Read more
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Sheila Scott OBE (1922 - 1988)
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Sheila Scott OBE (27 April 1922 - 20 October 1988), was an English aviatrix. She became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a small aircraft in 1971. Scott's records breaking aircraft was a single-engined Piper Comanche registered G-ATOY and named Myth Too. The aircraft was bought by Scott...
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Philip Abelson (1913 - 2004)
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Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 - August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, a scientific editor, and a science writer. Read more Leading nuclear physicist Philip Abelson (1913--2004) turned his attention under the guidance of Ros...
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Samuel Morse (1791 - 1872)
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) was an American inventor. He contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, was a co-inventor of the Morse code, and also an accomplished painter. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu...
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Guy Stewart Callendar (1898 - 1964)
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Guy Stewart Callendar (February 1898 - October 1964) was an English steam engineer and inventor. His main contribution to knowledge was developing the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to global temperature. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_...
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Ernst Udet (1896 - 1941)
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Colonel General Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 - 17 November 1941) was the second-highest scoring German flying ace of World War I. He was one of the youngest aces and was the highest scoring German ace to survive the war (at the age of 22). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Udet]Read more[/ur...
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Emil Hilb (1882 - 1929)
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Emil Hilb (born 26 April 1882 in Stuttgart; died 6 August 1929 in Würzburg) was a German-Jewish mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Read more
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Arno Allan Penzias
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Arno Allan Penzias (born 26 April 1933) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Read more
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Read more
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