Making your mark

Article Abstract:

Musings on the advances in knowledge that led to the discovery of DNA fingerprinting include those inventions by A.H.G. Fokker (fighter prop planes), Ben Holt (tractor), Rudolf Diesel (engine), Alfred Krupp (corporate paternalism), Otto Bismark (pensions) and Francis Galton (fingerprints).

Column, Inventions, Humor and anecdotes, DNA testing, DNA identification

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Connections: Turkish delights

Article Abstract:

Turkey is the country used as the starting point for various scientific, cultural and social upheavals, including the development of the socket bayonet and flintlock combination which revolutionized infantry warfare and the rise of physiognomy as a science.

History, Military tactics, Physiognomy, Infantry drill and tactics, Infantry

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French leave

Article Abstract:

A discussion of geologists Will Smith, who became known as 'Strata' Smith, is presented.

Behavior, Biography, Geologists, Smith, William (Geologists)

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