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...also taught History 1904. Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1884 to President, and History 1909: A History of Southern Africa...
...that air campaign was reinforced by a strong ground offensive launched against the Serbs by the Croatians. It was the combination that forced Milosevic to capitulate. The Gulf War taught the same lesson. "It took ground forces to eject Saddam Hussein from Kuwait," says Army Secretary Louis Caldera. "There are limits to what one can do with bombing and cruise missiles." But Bill Clinton has pledged that the U.S. military will be restricted to just those weapons this time. If the Army Secretary knows that grunts on the ground are needed to force the Serbs to stop killing Kosovars...
Raised in London in the 1960s, Berners-Lee was the quintessential child of the computer age. His parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, the first computer sold commercially. They taught him to think unconventionally; he'd play games over the breakfast table with imaginary numbers (what's the square root of minus 4?). He made pretend computers out of cardboard boxes and five-hole paper tape and fell in love with electronics. Later, at Oxford, he built his own working electronic computer out of spare parts and a TV set. He also studied physics, which he thought...
...realized he was corresponding with a genius. Unlike trained mathematicians, Ramanujan knew his speculations about numbers were true, so he didn't bother to prove them. That wouldn't do. Hardy brought him to England in 1914, and the pair spent four years working to prove the self-taught mathematician's intuitively brilliant conjectures. Alas, Ramanujan hated England and died of tuberculosis in 1920 at age 32--with so much of his opus left unproved that mathematicians today are still working...
...STATEMENT] "I lived on a farm...[My father] taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose...