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Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Alwyn Davies	The Choshu five Chemists will be familiar with Alexander Williamson's contribution to chemistry in discovering the Williamson reaction, but few will be aware that he played a leading role in Japan's conversion from an isolated, industrially backward country to an open one.
Information Today June 25, 2013	Gale Debuts Four Archives for 19th-Century Research Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Gale's worldwide, multiyear digitization program, offers rare 19th-century primary sources such as newspapers, maps, and photographs from more than 80 institutions around the world.
Chemistry World June 3, 2013 Andrea Sella	Moissan's furnace Henri Moissan was a French inorganic chemist (1852 -- 1907). He discovered fluorine, pioneered fluorine chemistry and high-temperature synthesis
Fast Company June 2013	From MIT To WikiLeaks: A Brief History Of Hacking A survey of news about hacking and hackers, both good and bad, from the 1950s to the present.
Information Today May 13, 2013	EBSCO Introduces Civil War Primary Source Documents Drawn from the holdings of the New-York Historical Society, the collection captures various accounts of the Civil War as it was experienced on land and sea.
Sports Central May 9, 2013 Jeff Kallman	Ben Chapman, Once and For All Jackie Robinson suffered few baitings more vicious than those led by Ben Chapman, the former outfielder who managed the Philadelphia Phillies, when Robinson broke into the Show with the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Andrea Sella	Anschutz's manometer Richard Anschutz, German organic chemist (1852 -- 1937) codified the emerging practice of vacuum distillation.
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Derry Jones	A history of the electron: JJ and GP Thomson In the absence of full biographies of father and son, this book by Jaume Navarro, provides a short joint history of the electron and the Thomsons (especially JJ), and their interactions, with an emphasis on emerging science in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Chemistry World April 17, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Reconstructing how the Romans made glass By analyzing samples of Roman glass, researchers in Belgium and the UK hope to uncover clues about how the glass was made and the geographical provenance of the raw materials.
Chemistry World April 8, 2013 Philip Robinson	The truth about snake oil? US scientists have carried out the first analyses of old 'patent medicines' - medicinal preparations from the turn of the last century - to identify the chemical constituents of the medications and perhaps determine if there was any truth in the wild health claims they made.
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