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A book by American journalist Russell Shorto, who also wrote New York City, The Island at the Center of the World. Dutch provinces were part of Holy Roman Empire, which according to Voltaire, was “neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.” Amsterdam “People are tr...

Means was very American in his deep love of freedom. He was a leader with energy, charisma and brains — but he was impulsive, with little commitment to the scut work of organizing. He always chafed at restrictions on his freedom. At age 29, drifting in and out of trouble, in Minneapolis, Mi...

The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram is arguably one of the most important tools used in Astronomy today. It demonstrates the relationship between a stars’ luminosity and temperature and relates to the phases in the life of a star-from Main Sequence, to Giant and finally a White Dwarf. One mi...