George McGovern
McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota , where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe . Among the medals awarded him was a Distinguished
Lake Burley Griffin
Griffin designed the lake with many geometric motifs, so that the axes of his design lined up with natural geographical landmarks in the area. However, government authorities changed his original plans and no substantial work was completed before he left Australia in 1920. His scheme remained
APL (programming language)
APL has a combination of unique and relatively uncommon features that appeal to programmers and make it a productive programming language: [ 8 ] It is concise, using symbols rather than words and applying functions to entire arrays without using explicit loops. It is solution focused, emphasizing
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes —whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina . The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block
Seymour Hersh
His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War , for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting . His 2004 reports on the US military 's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison
Tim Rogers
Originally from Kalgoorlie , Western Australia , Rogers moved around a lot during his adolescence, including stints in Adelaide and Canberra . He later became School Captain at his Sydney-based school Oakhill College . He then went on to study law in Canberra. It was during this time that
BBC London 94.9
Although the station is only on the Sky Digital EPG in London, it is still available on Sky, via manual tuning, to the rest of the UK in this format. [ 3 ] The station's output is broadly similar to other BBC local radio stations and aims at a general mainstream audience. Previous incarnations
Mike Myers (actor)
Myers was born and raised in Scarborough , Ontario , Canada , the son of British-born parents Eric Myers (1922–1991), an insurance man and World War II veteran of the Royal Engineers , and his wife Alice E. Hind (born 1926), an office supervisor and veteran of the Royal Air Force . [ 1
George Washington Carver
Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts , soybeans and sweet potatoes , which also aided nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
marriage, inspector of bands 1.4 Backlash and May Night 1.5 Belyayev circle 1.6 Increased contact with Tchaikovsky 1.7 Later years 2 Legacy 2.1 Compositions 2.1.1 Operas 2.1.2 Orchestral works 2.1.3 Smaller-scale works 2.2 Students 2.3 Editing the work of The Five
