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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This fantastic timeline of the U.S. Civil War (History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865) was compiled by J. Kellick Bathurst, drawn by Edward Perrin, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Just a year after the invention of the telephone appeared this wonderful piece of music--with great cover art that actually took a pretty strong and accurate look into ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 1018 “It is probably not worth putting (all) railways under ground.” Ed Teller, 1947 [See also our 50+-part Atomic & Nuclear Bomb series here] There is a universe of ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2532 I was thinking about the opening line from Dicken's Tale of Two Cities, yesterday, one of the author's great books, and probably one of his greatest sentences, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1676 ” [Smoking is] a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

JF Ptak Science Books Clausius, Rudolf. "On the Nature of the Motion we call Heat". London And Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine And Journal of Science, volume 14, fourth series, 1857, printed by ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic a nd ...

A while ago I wrote a post on Herman Soergel's plan for extending the landmass of the countries around the Mediterranean Sea by damming the straits of Gibraltar, lowering the sea and irrigating the ...

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JF Ptak Science Books Post 2461 At first glance this detailed and dense map looks foreboding and somehow off-putting--at least for me, and that was before I understood what the numbers represented.