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Anatole Litvak (May 10, 1902 – December 15, 1974) was a Ukrainian-born international filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a variety of countries and languages. He was born Mikhail Anatol Litwak into a Jewish family in the city of Kiev in what was then part of the Russian Empire. As a teenager, he worked at a theater in St. Petersburg and took acting lessons at the State drama school. In the 1920s, he would go to Germany where he made films but as a Jew had to flee in the 1930s as a result of the Nazi regime. While living in England he made several successful films there and in France t ...

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Charles Lindbergh - Early life. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Swedish immigrants. He grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. His father, Charles August Lindbergh, was a lawyer and later a U.S. congressman who opposed the entry of the U.S. into World War I; ...

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• Charles Lindbergh - Early life
• Charles Lindbergh - First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
• Charles Lindbergh - Marriage children kidnapping
• Charles Lindbergh - Did Lindbergh Sympathize with Nazis?
• Charles Lindbergh - Rise of fascism
• Charles Lindbergh - Lindbergh and the Munich Crisis
• Charles Lindbergh - Outbreak of war
• Charles Lindbergh - Later life
• Charles Lindbergh - Lindbergh in fiction
• Charles Lindbergh - See Also
• Charles Lindbergh - Sources

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Alec Reeves (10 March 1902 - 13 October 1971) was a British scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation (PCM). Reeves was born in Redhill, Surrey. His father Edward was surveyor to the Royal Geographical Society. Alec studied engineering at Imperial College London and in 1923 joined International Western Electric, a leading manufacturer of radio and telecommunications equipment. In 1925, the firm was taken over by Sosthenes Behn's International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) and Reeves went to ...

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• Alec Reeves - Invention of pulse code modulation
• Alec Reeves - Work on radio navigation
• Alec Reeves - Work on communications systems

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William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 – September 3, 2002) was a prominent businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author. Stone is remembered for contributing $2 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972—these were cited in Congressional debates after Watergate to institute campaign spending limits. Stone himself was born in Chicago and started his business career at age 13, when he owned his first newsstand. At age 16, he journeyed to Detroit to help out his mother at an insurance compan ...

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Her career in vaudeville began by touring in an act called "Tim & Irene", with her first husband, actor Tim Ryan, who was also a prolific actor in multiple media. In the mid-1930s they made several short films based on the vaudeville shows. Her first feature-length movie appearance was a bit part in the 1941 romantic comedy Unfinished Business, which starred Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, and Preston Foster. In 1943's Ann Miller musical, Reveille with Beverly, she had another small part, notable only in that it was her fir ...

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Irene Ryan, Irene Ryan - Personal Life, Irene Ryan - Career, Irene Ryan - Death

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Jovan Karamata was born in Zagreb on February 1, 1902 to a Serbian-Aromanian father and a Serbian mother. His family descends from a merchant family from the city of Zemun in Serbia. His family's business affairs on the borders of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were very well known. In 1914, he finished most of his primary school in Zemun but because of constant warfare on the borderlands, Karamata's father sent him, together with his brothers and his sister, to Switzerland for their own safety. In Lausanne, 1920, he finished prima ...

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Jovan Karamata, Jovan Karamata - Life, Jovan Karamata - Legacy, Jovan Karamata - Resources, Jovan Karamata - External links, Jovan Karamata - Further reading

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Educated in England and Montreaux until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the School of Fine Art (Escola Nacional de Belas Artes) in Rio de Janeiro. After some early works in the eclectic manner, he adopted Modernism in 1929. In 1930 Costa established a partnership with Russian architect Gregori Warchavchik, and became the Manager of the School of Fine Art. Even though he found students eager to be taught in the "new style," his ruthless administration won him the opposition of the faculty and student body, and Costa eventually ...

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Lúcio Costa, Lúcio Costa - Career, Lúcio Costa - Controversies

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Several high-ranking officers of the Rhodesian Military did go to Gibbs earlier in the day and made a statement of loyalty to him, asking Gibbs to issue a warrant so that they could arrest Smith and Dupont, but Gibbs knew that bulk of the Officer Coprs, as well as the rank and file of the Rhodesian military were solidly behind Smith's government and that such a move would lead to a coup d'etat. Gibbs announced that despite the UDI, he had no intention of resigning his office or leaving Rhodesia, and that therefore, he would remain in ...

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Humphrey Gibbs, Humphrey Gibbs - Early History, Humphrey Gibbs - As Governor of Rhodesia, Humphrey Gibbs - Under Siege, Humphrey Gibbs - Additional Notes, Humphrey Gibbs - References:

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In 1930, Wells accepted an instructorship in economics at Indiana University – Bloomington, a pivotal moment in his life that would later lead to his success as an academic. This led to a 1934 offer of an assistant professorship in economics at the university, which he accepted but from which he took a leave. In 1935, Wells was offered the position of dean of what became the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, today one of the top business schools in the United States. After much consideration, Wells accepted the position, confirming ...

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Herman B Wells, Herman B Wells - Early life, Herman B Wells - Early career, Herman B Wells - Academic career, Herman B Wells - Positions appointments and awards

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It was in Paris that Reeves had the idea that made him famous - and which helped shape the modern world. Since the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, speech had been transmitted as a continuously varying wave of electrical energy. But 'analogue' systems have a big weakness: they amplify noise and errors as well as the original message. Reeves proposed a radical alternative. Instead of sending Bell's 'voice-shaped current', he proposed that the sound be sampled at regular intervals. The values of these samples would be represent ...

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Alec Reeves, Alec Reeves - Invention of pulse code modulation, Alec Reeves - Work on radio navigation, Alec Reeves - Work on communications systems

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Col. Aaron Bank is best known as founder of American Special Forces, commonly known as the "Green Berets." He is also famous for his exploits as an OSS officer, parachuting into France to coordinate and activate the French resistance and organizing an operation intended to capture Adolf Hitler. During his retirement years, Col. Bank played a quiet but critical role in warning the nation about the risks of terrorism and modern technology and he is largely responsible for the high level of security a ...

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Aaron Bank, Aaron Bank - World War II career, Aaron Bank - Post-war activities and the founding of the Special Forces, Aaron Bank - Later years

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Born in Joigny in the Yonne département of France. He died in 1967 and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris. ...

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Marcel Aymé, Marcel Aymé - Life, Marcel Aymé - Works, Marcel Aymé - Memory

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In 1929, she and her husband moved to Germany, and she did a doctorate at the University of Giessen. In 1930 she moved from Gießen to Berlin to be with her husband, and to study at the University of Berlin on a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She also worked there as an assistant lecturer (English and American literature and language) and a translator. Her extracurricular activities included the American Student Association, the American Women’s Club, in which she served as president, the Berlin chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in whic ...

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Mildred Harnack, Mildred Harnack - Life in the USA, Mildred Harnack - Life in Germany, Mildred Harnack - Political activities, Mildred Harnack - The Red Orchestra, Mildred Harnack - Arrest trial and death, Mildred Harnack - Translations, Mildred Harnack - Writings, Mildred Harnack - Literature, Mildred Harnack - Sources

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After joining the Soviet Communist Party in 1922, Zorin held a managerial position in a Moscow City Committee and the Central Committee of the Komsomol until 1932. In 1935, he graduated from the Communist Institute of Education (Высший коммунистический институт просвещения). In 1935-1941, Zorin worked on numerous Party assignments and as a teacher. In 1941-1944, he was employed at the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. In 1945-1947, Zorin was the Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In ...

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Valerian Zorin, Valerian Zorin - Biography, Valerian Zorin - Awards and Recognitions

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Born in Görlitz, he began his career as an itinerant storyteller of fairy tales in the 1920s. He took acting lessons and began a mediocre career in the theater. However, it was when he met a friend who had contacts in the Berlin cabaret that he found his true calling. He founded the cabaret "Die Katakombe" (The Catacombs") with some friends in 1929. He, and the cabaret, became successful because of his critical and subtly impudent remarks against the Nazis, proving to be an early thorn in their side. Finck had an ability to be ...

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Werner Finck, Werner Finck - Life, Werner Finck - Partial Filmography

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In 1933, Heyde made the acquaintance of Theodor Eicke, and became member of the NSDAP. One year later he was appointed director of the polyclinic in Würzburg. In 1935 he entered the SS as medical officer with the rank of a SS-Hauptsturmführer, and became commander of the medical unit in the SS-Totenkopfverbände. There he was responsible for establishing a system of psychiatric and eugenic examinations and research in concentration camps, and for the organisation of the T-4 Euthanasia Program. Additionally, he also w ...

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Werner Heyde, Werner Heyde - Education, Werner Heyde - Career until 1945, Werner Heyde - Life after 1945, Werner Heyde - Literature

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Eckert understood the significance of his laboratory, keenly aware of the advantage of scientific calculations performed without human interventions for long stretches of computation. He won the James Craig Watson Medal in 1966. ...

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Wallace John Eckert, Wallace John Eckert - Application: solution of differential equations for astronomy, Wallace John Eckert - Application: the Manhattan Project, Wallace John Eckert - Use of punch card debugging techniques, Wallace John Eckert - Significance of the computing laboratory

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It wasn't until 1952 that he had an opportunity to book a passage on a ship passing close to Suwarrow, now uninhabited since the end of the war. The boat dropped him off with all the supplies he could scrape together and two cats on the islet of Anchorage, about a mile long and a few hundred feet wide. Neale had a hut with water tanks, some books and a badly damaged boat left over from the coast watchers. They had also left wild pigs and chickens on the atoll. The pigs were a liability as they destroyed vegetation and made planting a garden ...

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Tom Neale, Tom Neale - Early life, Tom Neale - First stay on Suwarrow, Tom Neale - Second stay, Tom Neale - Third stay, Tom Neale - Footnotes

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Skip James - Early years. James was born Nehemiah Curtis James near Bentonia, Mississippi. As a youth he heard local musicians such as Henry Stuckey and brothers Charlie and Jesse Sims and began playing the organ in his teens. He worked on road construction and levee-building crews in his native Mississippi in the early 1920s, and wrote what is perhaps his earliest song, "Illinois Blues", about his experiences as a laborer. Later in the '20s he sharecropped and made bootleg whiskey in the Bentonia area. He ...

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Skip James, Skip James - Biography, Skip James - Early years, Skip James - 1920s and '30s, Skip James - Disappearance and rediscovery, Skip James - Musical style, Skip James - Bentonia School, Skip James - Partial discography

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Although Erikson always insisted that he was a Freudian, subsequent authors have described him as an "ego psychologist", insofar as, in contrast to the stress laid in orthodox Freudianism on the id, Erikson emphasised the ego. Perhaps the most conspicuous way in which his theory differs from that of Freud is that, in contrast to Freud's list of stages which take development up until the age of eleven or twelve, Erikson lists eight stages of development, going across the entire lifespan. Each of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development is marked by a conflict, for which succes ...

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Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson - Biography, Erik Erikson - Erikson's Theory of Personality, Erik Erikson - Critique of Erikson, Erik Erikson - Works, Erik Erikson - Major works, Erik Erikson - Collections, Erik Erikson - Related works

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