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Max BornMax Born (December 11, 1882 - January 5, 1970). German mathematician and physicist.Only child of Gustav Born[?] and Margarete Kauffmann[?]. Initially educated at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, he went on to study at the University of Breslau[?] followed by Heidelberg University[?] and Zurich University[?]. During this period he came into contact with many prominent scientists and mathematicians including Klein, Hilbert, Minkowski, Runge[?], Schwarzschild, and Voigt[?]. In 1909 he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Göttingen where he worked until 1912 when he moved to work at Chicago University[?]. In 1919 after a period in the German army he became a professor at the University of Frankfurt-on-Main[?] and in 1933 due to the anti-Semitic government activity at the time he went to lecture at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University. His published works include Dynamics of Crystal Lattices and Zur Quantummechanik. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physics, the Stokes Medal[?] and the 1950 Hughes Medal[?]. Bates
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black tin box on the foot of his coffin and unlock before all of
hand each of you boys the deed Pa had made you for the land you
It wouldn't bring the deeds BACK if you did. They're gone. But I
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minded him just like all the rest of you always did; the BOYS
to-morrow morning, and then I want my sons and daughters by BIRTH
mind you; and decide what to do. Katie, will you come with me?"
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cried with fear, but there were no tears from the wife of Adam
mercies of time, all of them followed Mrs. Bates' orders, except
Kate slipped into her second dress and went to work. Mrs. Bates
started home. She unbuttoned her waist going up the back walk and
can use my head for a knock-maul. Nancy Ellen, can't you stop at
girls run me up a dress that is nice.html">nice enough to go out in, and not
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supposition it showed the dirt the least. There's nothing in
You can get a nice cool gray, if you want me to wear it."
"Well, I never!" said Nancy Ellen. "What will the neighbours
my life, I'd be kinda lonesome if they's to quit."
Dinner over, Kate proposed that her mother should lie down. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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