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Science Fiction Author Frank Herbert and his Great Work: Dune

Dune is the mystical science fiction story from the pen of Frank Herbert, where the Atreides & Harkonnen families battle for world supremacy, all the while unknowingly guided by Bene Gesserit witches while Fremen fight for their freedom. This post was inspired by seeing the first Villeneuve movie. After that, I read the prequels by […]

Nuclear Chemistry, the Manhattan Project & Charles Coryell, Ph.D.

Manhattan Project & Beyond Dr. Coryell was a member of the Clinton Laboratories team, ijn 1945 with Jacob Marinsky and Lawrence E. Glendenin. There the three men isolated the previously undocumented rare-earth element later named “promethium” by extracting it from fission products and also by bombarding neodymium with neutrons. The team isolated promethium via ion-exchange […]

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Prophesying WWI, Russian General Mikhail Skobolev

Mikhail Skobeleff was born in Saint Petersburg on 29 September 1843 (Michaelmas) to philanthropist Olga Skobeleva, and Russian general Dmitry Ivanovich Skobelev. Like his father, he graduated from the General Staff Academy, seems to be equivalent to the American West Point, as a staff officer, and was immediately sent to Turkestan, Central Asia, in 1868 […]