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61RACER IV — The Racer primary was developed in 1953 Los Alamos for the first generation of US thermonuclear weapons, the TX 14, TX 16, and TX 17 bombs.Racer was tested in the Upshot Knothole series of tests with mockup secondary stages as shots Nancy (TX 14) …
62Air navigation — The principles of air navigation are the same for all aircraft, big or small. Air navigation involves successfully piloting an aircraft from place to place without getting lost, breaking the laws applying to aircraft, or endangering the safety of …
63Boiling frog — The boiling frog story states that a frog can be boiled alive if the water is heated slowly enough it is said that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will never jump …
64Director of Central Intelligence — The Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was the head of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the principal intelligence advisor to the President and the National Security Council, and the coordinator of… …
65Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour — The Young People s Society of Christian Endeavor was a nondenominational evangelical society founded in Portland, Maine, in 1881 by Francis Edward Clark. Its professed object was to promote an earnest Christian life among its members, to increase …
66Fraser Canyon Gold Rush — The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush) occurred in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River, a few miles upstream from the Thompson s confluence with the… …
67San Francisco Sound — The San Francisco Sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco based rock groups of the mid 1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco during these years.Prominent in this …
68Violinist (thought experiment) — The Violinist is a famous thought experiment first posed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971.The famous violinist thought experiment The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes her thought experiment as follows::Judith Jarvis Thomson provided… …
69Piano Concerto No. 14 (Mozart) — The Piano Concerto No. 14 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in 1784 is a piano concerto in E flat major catalogued with KV 449. It is the first composition he entered into a notebook of his music he then kept for the next seven years, marking… …
70Sources of Hamlet — The sources of Hamlet , a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601, trace back as far as pre 13th century Icelandic tales. The generic hero as fool story is so old and is expressed in the literature of so …
