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A history of mapmaking spans the period of time from when maps were made on clay tablets, to the present, when satellites chart the planets
Andrew Malleson practised psychiatry. Miles Malleson, was an actor and dramatist.
John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Best known for his formulation of the OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making, Colonel Boyd was also an original thinker in developing tactics for air-to-air combat, designing warplanes, and the fluid, mobile warfare known to the Germans as blitzkrieg and to modern armies as "maneuver warfare." As much as anyone, John Boyd was the architect of the two great campaigns against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, both the 1991 liberation of Kuwait and the 2003 "March Up" to Baghdad by the U.S. Army and Marines. But what of the costly, drawn-out insur...
दूसरे की खोजी हुई चीजों या विचारों से सौभाग्य-निर्माण करने वाली शख्सियतों की सूची काफी बड़ी हो सकती है। उदाहरण के लिए राइट बंधुओं को विश्व के पहले सफल हवाई जहाज की खोज व निर्माण करने और 17 दिसंबर; 1903 को सबसे पहली नियंत्रित; संचालित व निरंतर बनी रहनेवाली हवा से ज्यादा भारी...
This fascinating account traces a history of paleontology in relation to dinosaurs & discusses current theories concerning their extinction.
Was Christopher Columbus a visionary or an opportunist, a rapacious colonist or a Christian mystic? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mapmakers gives us a truly judicious portrait of the great navigator--one that is as much about the accretion of the Columbus mythos as it is an absorbing account of his life and character.