Learned outsiders

Article Abstract:

Historians who fled to Britain as refugees from Central Europe have had a huge impact on the writing and teaching of history in the UK since 1945. Some of the historians who settled in the UK after fleeing the Nazi terror in German-speaking Central Europe arrived having already completed their university studies, but others were still children. Members of the first group overcame considerable difficulties, not least with the English language, to pursue successful academic careers. Some of the younger generation had to fight prejudice and social barriers to become professional historians.

United Kingdom, Influence, Demographic aspects, Historians, Emigration and immigration, Refugees, European

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A graduate radiation course based upon numerical methods

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Two meteorologists describe how the use of several computer programs supported the 1994 Houghton Lectures, a four-week intensive course on atmospheric radiation, for graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography. The RADCON, HITRAN-PC and PCMod-Win programs were used by students to do individual exercises on making radiance plots and examining a cumulus convection model.

Curricula, Study and teaching, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Atmospheric radiation

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Janis Joplin's 1964 Porsche 356 Cabrio: sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and occasional oversteer

Article Abstract:

Late rock star Janis Joplin's car now resides at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. It is a classic Porsche with a custom psychedelic paint job. Car & Driver staff took it for a tune-up and test drive, and reflected on Joplin's life and death.

Appreciation, Transportation, Vintage automobiles, Vintage cars, Joplin, Janis

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