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Fast Company
November 2003
John A. Byrne |
JFK Slept Here A money pit? Not quite. Harlan & Castle financier John K. Castle is as rational an investor as you'll ever find. But he fell in love with a piece of Camelot in Florida.   |
Geotimes
October 2003
Lisa Rossbacher |
Searching for The Map One geologist's quest to see "The Map that Changed the World," William Smith's original 1815 geologic map of Britain, which radically changed the way people understood Earth's subsurface and made Smith the "father of modern geology." |
Science News
October 25, 2003 |
TimeLine: October 21, 1933 Could you do this at 18 months?... Unpredicted meteor shower surprises astronomers... Invisible light found to pierce thin metal films |
World War II
November 2003
Bette McDevitt |
Undercover: A Teenage Resistance Heroine Tiny Mulder used her language skills and wits to keep Allied airmen shot down over Holland out of German hands. |
World War II
Jon Latimer |
Hitler's Boy Soldiers in Normandy In the summer of 1944, the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division threw itself against the mighty Allied onslaught. |
World War II
Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 20, 2003
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. |
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry There is plenty of history to be written about the birth of consumer electronics and the computer, says the author, a Harvard professor emeritus. |
Science News
October 18, 2003 |
TimeLine: October 14, 1933 Soviet ascension breaks world altitude record... "Phage" found to cure with antitoxin, not by "eating"... New heavy water kills tadpoles and guppy fish |
Aviation History
C.V. Glines |
The Wright Brothers: The Promise of Flight Fulfilled Far from being hailed as successful innovators for their aviation achievements at Kitty Hawk, Orville and Wilbur Wright initially faced the widespread disbelief of the public. |
Aviation History
Frank J. Delear |
Gustave Whitehead: First-Flight Controversy Long-festering intrigues surface as a group challenges the first-flight claims of the Wright brothers, contending that Gustave Whitehead beat them to the punch. |
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