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Nagel, Ernest

(Encyclopedia) Nagel, Ernest, 1901–85, American philosopher, b. Nové Město (now in the Czech Republic), grad. College of the City of New York, 1923, and Columbia (Ph.D., 1930). His family emigrated…

Flast v. Cohen (1968)

Case SummaryA federal court ruled that Flast and the other plaintiffs did not have standing as taxpayers to challenge the use of federal funds for religious schools. “Standing“ is a legal…

Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union

(Encyclopedia) See L. Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2d ed. 1971); S. F. Cohen, Rethinking the Soviet Experience (1985); M. Geller, Utopia in Power (1986); S. Carter, Russian…

Cohen, Samuel Theodore

(Encyclopedia) Cohen, Samuel Theodore, 1921–2010, American physicist known as the “father of the neutron bomb,” b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1943. He worked on the…

Samuel Baron Biography

Samuel Baron flutist, conductor Best known as a flutist, Baron was a founding member of the New York Woodwind Quintet and the director of the Bach Aria Group.Born: 1925Died: 1997Rex…

Baron Munchausen: Introduction

by Rudolph Erich Raspe Travels of Baron MunchausenIntroduction It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the…

Baron Munchausen: To the Public

by Rudolph Erich Raspe Preface to the First Edition The Baron relates an accoun...To the Public Having heard, for the first time, that my adventures have been doubted, and looked upon…

Baron Munchausen: Supplement

by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron slips through the...Supplement Extraordinary flight on the back of an eagle, over France to Gibraltar, South and North America, the Polar Regions,…

Baron Munchausen: The Frolic

by Rudolph Erich Raspe An interesting account of t...A Trip to the NorthThe Frolic The frolic; its consequences-Windsor Castle-St. Paul's-College of Physicians-Undertakers,…