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Private Planes: Piper Cub

by David Noland Piper Cub Specs Length: 22 ft, 2 in. Wingspan: 35 ft, 2 in. Empty weight: 670 lbs Gross weight: 1,220 lbs Max speed: 75…

Maxime Faget

Born: 1921 Space Capsule Design. Max Faget conceptualized and designed the first space capsule, the Mercury Capsule, the Apollo command and service modules, and contributed to the space shuttle.…

List, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia) List, Benjamin, 1968–, b. Frankfurt, Germany. German chemist, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and…

Haile Gebrselassie

(Encyclopedia) Haile Gebrselassie, 1973–, Ethiopian track athlete. Adept at both indoor and outdoor distance events as well as long-distance cross-country and marathon running, Haile won major races…

von Klitzing, Klaus

(Encyclopedia) von Klitzing, Klaus, 1943–, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Würzburg, 1972. He was a professor at the Technical Univ. of Munich (1980–85) and then director of the Max Planck Institute…

Caldwell, Taylor

(Encyclopedia) Caldwell, Taylor (Janet Taylor Caldwell), 1900–1985, American novelist, b. London, England. Her best-selling works ranged from romance to satire to fictionalized biography, often…

Branson, Sir Richard

(Encyclopedia) Branson, Sir Richard (Richard Charles Nicholas Branson), 1950–, British business mogul and adventurer. He left school at 16 to start his first business, the magazine Student. In 1970…

Busch, Wilhelm

(Encyclopedia) Busch, Wilhelm, 1832–1908, German cartoonist, painter, and poet. After studying at the academies of Antwerp, Düsseldorf, and Munich, he joined the staff of the Fliegende Blätter, to…

Geometry: Whose Geometry Is It Anyway?

Whose Geometry Is It Anyway?GeometryWhose Geometry Is It Anyway?Non-Euclidean GeometryHyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!Spherical GeometryTaxi-Cab GeometryMax GeometryHow Many Shapes Can a Circle Have…