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Wernher von Braun was born on 23 March 1912, in the small town of Wirsitz in the Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, then German Empire and now Poland. [13]His father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1878–1972), was a civil servant and conservative politician; he served as Minister of Agriculture in the federal government during the Weimar Republic.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was the only child of Allene Stone Gano (1883–1922) and of Howard R. Hughes Sr. (1869–1924), a successful inventor and businessman from Missouri. He had English , Welsh and some French Huguenot ancestry, [ 9 ] and was a descendant of John Gano (1727–1804), the minister who allegedly baptized George Washington . [ 10 ]
Steam machine of Verbiest, in 1678 (Ferdinand Verbiest) Cugnot's 1771 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris Carl Benz, the inventor of the modern car The original Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first modern car, built in 1885 and awarded the patent for the concept Bertha Benz, the first long distance driver The ...
Since 2018, the share of young U.S. adults who say they are unlikely to ever have kids increased from 37% to 47% in 2023. That said, while money is a factor, it wasn’t the main reason given by ...
The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a lawsuit with the Nebraska Supreme Court after Secretary of State Bob Evnen ordered all county election officials not to allow those with felony ...
A major highway, several thoroughfares and a key transit hub were flooded in Canada's largest city on Tuesday after torrential rain hit Toronto, while power outages were reported in multiple areas.
Most modern business theorists see a continuum with pure service on one terminal point and pure commodity good on the other terminal point. Most products fall between these two extremes. For example, a restaurant provides a physical good (the food), but also provides services in the form of ambience, the setting and clearing of the table, etc ...
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act for redistricting cases in a large swath of the South, ruling against the Justice Department and voters of color who ...