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41Heinrich Himmler — Infobox Officeholder name = Heinrich Luitpold Himmler imagesize = small caption = order = Reichsführer SS term start = 1929 term end = 1945 leader = Adolf Hitler predecessor = Erhard Heiden successor = Karl Hanke order2 = Reich Minister of the… …
42Peter Fleming — Infobox Person name = Robert Peter Fleming birth date = birth date|1907|5|31 birth place = London, England death date = death date and age|1971|8|18|1907|5|31 death place = Argyllshire, Scotland spouse = Celia Johnson (1935 1971)Robert Peter… …
43A. L. Rowse — Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH FBA (December 4, 1903 ndash; October 3, 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish historian. He is perhaps best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his… …
44Science and technology studies — (STS) is the study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these in turn affect society, politics, and culture. More than two dozen universities worldwide offer baccalaureate… …
45The Great Crash, 1929 — is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1954; it is an economic history of the lead up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock… …
46Large countable ordinal — In the mathematical discipline of set theory, there are many ways of describing specific countable ordinals. The smallest ones can be usefully and non circularly expressed in terms of their Cantor normal forms. Beyond that, many ordinals of… …
47C/O Postmaster — is a book written by Thomas R St George, and published in 1943 by Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. This book was a best seller and Book Of The Month Club selection in 1943. The book begins as the author leaves his Army boot camp in California in the… …
48quantum mechanics — quantum mechanical, adj. Physics. a theory of the mechanics of atoms, molecules, and other physical systems that are subject to the uncertainty principle. Abbr.: QM Cf. nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics. [1920 25]… …
49Voltaire — Voltairean, Voltairian, adj., n. /vohl tair , vol /; Fr. /vawl terdd /, n. (François Marie Arouet) 1694 1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist. * * * orig. François Marie Arouet born Nov. 21, 1694, Paris, France… …
50Hardy, Thomas — born June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, Eng. died Jan. 11, 1928, Dorchester, Dorset British novelist and poet. Son of a country stonemason and builder, he practiced architecture before beginning to write poetry, then prose. Many of his… …
