Nautical fiction Wikipedia ~ Nautical fiction frequently also naval fiction sea fiction naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these settings of nautical fiction vary greatly including merchant ships liners naval ships fishing vessels

Leopold von Ranke Wikipedia ~ Leopold von Ranke German fɔn ˈʁaŋkə 21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886 was a German historian and a founder of modern sourcebased history According to Caroline Hoefferle Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape the historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in

La bohème Wikipedia ~ La bohème French Italian is an opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger The world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio conducted by the 28yearold Arturo then La bohème has become part of the standard

Polymerase chain reaction Wikipedia ~ Polymerase chain reaction PCR is a method widely used in molecular biology to make several copies of a specific DNA segment Using PCR copies of DNA sequences are exponentially amplified to generate thousands to millions of more copies of that particular DNA segment PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical laboratory and clinical laboratory research for a broad

Onestate solution Wikipedia ~ The onestate solution sometimes also called a binational state is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Proponents of a unified Israel advocate a single state in Israel the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with citizenship and equal rights in the combined entity for all inhabitants of all three territories without regard to ethnicity or religion

Kenesaw Mountain Landis Wikipedia ~ Kenesaw Mountain Landis ˈ k ɛ n ɪ s ɔː ˈ m aʊ n t ɪ n ˈ l æ n d ɪ s November 20 1866 – November 25 1944 was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White

Rudolf Vrba Wikipedia ~ Vrba was born Walter Rosenberg in Topoľčany Czechoslovakia part of Slovakia from 1993 one of three boys and a girl to Helena Rosenberg née Gruenfeldová and her husband Elias Vrbas mother was from Zbehy his maternal grandfather Bernat Grünfeld an Orthodox Jew from Nitra was killed in the Majdanek concentration camp Vrba took the name Rudolf Vrba after his escape