Word: garten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten in Munich; he was offered the first command of the United States Military Academy by President John Adams (his work as a spy never having been known until recently); he conducted investigations and wrote tracts on foodstuffs, cookery, and heating (he is called "the father of the modern fire-place...