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...Yankee rookie will try to regain the magic that disappeared all too quickly after his July 10 debut. Fortunately for the parents of baseball-playing kids, Irabu's demise came before their offspring could strip their refrigerator doors. Fridge magnets wouldn't have worked anyway; they register around 4 gauss (a measure of magnetic strength) and have north and south poles on both sides, while medical magnets range from 800 to 4,000 gauss and generally have the north pole on one side and the south pole on the other...
German Mathematician Karl Gauss assumed that those inhabitants were intelligent. In 1820 he proposed growing a huge wheat field in Siberia in the form of a right triangle, surrounded by pine trees, that could be seen from afar. That would demonstrate to the Martians, Gauss figured, that earthlings not only existed but understood mathematics...
Edward J. Gauss Fairbanks, Alaska...
Whitman won the 1958 Christian Gauss Prize for his work on Homer. He authored a volume of poetry, "Orpheus and the Moon Craters" (1941), and a long narrative poem, "Abelard...
...America to recognize her best talents. He was among the first to appreciate Hemingway, he counseled Fitzgerald and he championed Dos Passos. Led by a faith in the possibilities of the Republic which he inherited from his father, and sustained by the eclectic humanism of his Princeton mentor Christian Gauss, Wilson entered into journalism as if he were fulfilling a public trust. Within the pages of the New Republic and the New Yorker, Wilson presented subjects as diverse as poetry and symbolism, historiography and Marxism, the literature of the American Civil War and the Dead Sea Scrolls. "There...