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Table of Contents: “...Youth in Oegstgeest and Leiden -- Kapateyn and Groningen -- Via Yale to Leiden -- Rotation and Dynamics of the Galaxy -- The Structure of our and Other Galaxies -- The Watershed: World War Ii -- Opening New Avenues -- Fron Kootwijk to Dwingeloo...”

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Table of Contents: “...History: An Engineering View -- About This Book -- Prologue: The Enigma of Shockley -- Mother and Father -- The Son Billy -- Jean and Emmy -- Bell Telephone Laboratories -- The Nuclear Reactor -- World War II Hero -- The Precursors of "Translating...”

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Table of Contents: “...The global industry is poised for change -- Fuels and Chemicals Research help win World War II -- Three entrepreneurs join forces -- Conditions are perfect: A new industry grows rapidly -- Scientific Design becomes successful -- The big breakthrough: Mid...”

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Table of Contents: “... and Adjunct-Director -- World War II: The Watershed -- Opening Up New Avenues -- Spiral Structure, Interstellar Medium and the Crab -- Dwingeloo, ESO, the Vatican and the Cross-Antenna -- Galactic Structure and the Dwingeloo Telescope -- Westerbork, Retirement...”

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Table of Contents: “... Nebula, and the 1913 Great Meteor Procession -- Chapter 7: World War II and the Korean War -- Part III: Astronomy in Literature -- Chapter 8: Literary Skies Before 1800 -- Chapter 9: Literary Skies After 1800 -- Part IV: The Terrestrial Sleuth -- Chapter 10...”

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Table of Contents: “... of Britiain -- The Boston Tea Party -- Paul Revere's Midnight Ride -- Lincoln and the Almanac Trial -- Lincoln and the Leonids -- Stonewall Jackson's Fatal Full Moon -- John Muir and Moonbows -- World War II - Pearl Harbor and the Waning Moon -- World War II...”

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Table of Contents: “...Censorship and the first casualty controversy: World War I, 1917-1918 -- Bad news in the "good war": World War II, 1941-1943 -- The price of victory: World War II, 1944-1945 -- Partisanship and the police action: the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Vietnam...”

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