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...godhead embodied in the sun disk, or Aton. In Moses and Monotheism, Sigmund Freud speculated that Moses was actually an Egyptian who passed single-deity worship derived from Akhenaton to the Jews. (Was there not, he asked, an echo of Aton in Adonai?) Other scholars, like German academic Jan Assmann, author of Moses the Egyptian, believe Moses and Hebrew monotheism are a memory of Akhenaton, whose name was purged from all lists of rulers when the priests of Amon retook power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...might profit by some tips from their fellow forecasters overseas. Back in the 1890s, when many Americans were still getting weather predictions from the almanac, France's Léon Teisserenc de Bort was finding out about the stratosphere, charting the upper air (with Germany's Richard Assmann) and collecting weather data from 30 stations all over the world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension and a new perspective with their analyses of air masses. U.S. airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dishonored Prophets | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Senior Nominations close. 8.15.--"Geological Conference, "Minerals from Franklin Furnace," by Professor Palache; "The Assmann-Aspiration Psychrometer," by Professor Ward, in Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum. 8.00.--"History Club meeting. Professor Ernest von Dobschuts on "The Study of History in Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What is Going on Today | 12/9/1913 | See Source »

...Geological Conference. "Minerals from Franklin Furnace." by Professor Palache; "The Assmann-Aspiration Psychomotor," by Professor Ward, in Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Calendar | 12/6/1913 | See Source »

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