Arquivo do mês: junho 2010

*Introduction Einstein,  Albert (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Ger.— died April 18, 1955, Princeton, N.J., U.S.) Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 … Continuar lendo →

Was fear, proud, vanity? The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939, three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of … Continuar lendo →

Einstein’s work was interrupted by World War I. A lifelong pacifist, he was only one of four intellectuals in Germany to sign a manifesto opposing Germany’s entry into war. Disgusted, he called nationalism “the measles of mankind.” He would write, … Continuar lendo →

http://www.amazon.com/BBCHistoryWorldWarHiroshima/dp/B000F4RH8Y World history’s first – and, to date, only – nuclear weapon attacks were the atomic devices the United States exploded over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Frustrated by the intransigence of … Continuar lendo →