The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... scientists emigrate to U.S. in great numbers Britain grants licenses to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea Hans von Euler- Chelpin , Swed . - Ger . chemist , d . ( b . 1873 ) Norbert Wiener , founder of the science of cybernetics ...
... scientists emigrate to U.S. in great numbers Britain grants licenses to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea Hans von Euler- Chelpin , Swed . - Ger . chemist , d . ( b . 1873 ) Norbert Wiener , founder of the science of cybernetics ...
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... Science : R. Frisch ( Norw . ) and Niko Tinbergen ( Dutch ) for their development of econometrics Nobel Prize for ... scientists at the University of Wisconsin Luna 16 , unmanned Soviet spacecraft , returns from moon with rock samples ...
... Science : R. Frisch ( Norw . ) and Niko Tinbergen ( Dutch ) for their development of econometrics Nobel Prize for ... scientists at the University of Wisconsin Luna 16 , unmanned Soviet spacecraft , returns from moon with rock samples ...
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... Science and Health 1875 C Science and Human Behavior 1953 C Science and Hypothesis 1903 C Science and Philosophy 1912 C Science , Faith and Society 1947 C Science for the Citizen 1938 F Science Museum , London 1857 G Science of Ethics 1882 ...
... Science and Health 1875 C Science and Human Behavior 1953 C Science and Hypothesis 1903 C Science and Philosophy 1912 C Science , Faith and Society 1947 C Science for the Citizen 1938 F Science Museum , London 1857 G Science of Ethics 1882 ...
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