Names and persons
13/06/2013 - 17:14
After each of these deaths, there was a rebirth. In the wake of the Holocaust, Kaniuk came back to life and worked as a sailor on the boats... →
04/10/2012 - 13:51
Hobsbawm wrote about a wide range of historical issues, from the history of prisons to anarchists and social bandits, he wrote of the lives... →
26/08/2012 - 12:50
They found the Agena and docked successfully, but when they tried a pre-arranged manoeuvre of the combined spacecraft it went into a spin.... →
08/06/2012 - 13:36
Ray Bradbury was the kind of person who would give half a day to a kid who wanted to be a writer when he grew up.
I encountered Ray... →
06/05/2012 - 17:40
Netanyahu believed in Jewish rights to settle both banks of the River Jordan, in maintaining an "iron wall" until Arabs recognised the... →
05/04/2012 - 13:24
Bauman, the magazine states, distinguished himself as the leader of a unit that captured a large number of underground combatants. Further... →
13/03/2012 - 18:07
On the eve of World War II, Begin was Head of Polish Betar. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross over into Romania, he arrived in Vilna... →
24/02/2012 - 14:32
He has also been active in issues of science and society through his participation in the Pugwash conferences and the Club of Rome. In the... →
20/02/2012 - 21:37
In his most successful book, The Best Uses of Economic Resources, Kantorovich shows that every economy had to be concerned with using... →
15/12/2011 - 21:27
The Soviet Union seemed predominant in the early years of the space race. Mr. Chertok’s systems guided the rocket that bore Sputnik 1, the... →
21/10/2011 - 10:55
Aumann is the author of over ninety scientific papers and six books, and has held visiting positions at Princeton, Yale, Berkeley,... →
20/10/2011 - 22:02
Shechtman received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from Technion in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. He joined the Technion Faculty of Materials... →