The American Peoples Encyclopedia Vol. 2, Anu-Bayonne Decree

by Edward Humphrey

Hardcover, 1964

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I dette bind finder vi anzac, apartheid, archaeology, arctic, Argentina, asbestos, artificial insemination, armor, army, artillery, Asia, atom, atomic bomb, atomic energy, Australia, automobile, aviation medicine, Baal, bacteria, Badminton, Badlands, balloons, ballot. barbed wire, Barnum. basic
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english, battery, battle ships, bayonet.

Meget amerikansk orienteret leksikon med masser af sort/hvide billeder af verden anno ca 1964. Lademann's leksikon for amerikanere. Ishtar løver under archaeology. Ikke et ord om at asbest er farligt. Ikke et ord om artificial intelligence. En smukt dekoreret elefant under Asia. Under atomic bomb finder vi et billede af Hiroshima taget fra luften dagen efter bomben og fra Nagasaki fra stor afstand, dvs ingen ofre. Der står også at man godt kan detektere fallout med en geigertæller, men at det ikke udgør nogen stor fare. Billeder af amerikanske våben, tanks, fly og hangarskibe alle steder, hvor det lige kan puttes ind. Der er en sød historie om P. T. Barnum der startede i show business i 1835 med at fremvise en negerkvinde, der angiveligt var George Washingtons 161 år gamle barneplejerske. Hun var nu kun 75 år og døde året efter. Og så er der selvfølgelig lidt om slagskibe og Korea-krigen.
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Publication

Grolier (1964), Hardcover

Language

Original language

English

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544 p.; 25.5 cm

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Omslag: Indbundet
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Side 280: Although fall-out after an air burst can be detected (See Geiger-Müller Counter, Scintillation Counter), it is believed that in general, it presents no serious hazard.
Side 284: The application of nuclear power to aircraft was not nearly as successful as it was to ships.
Side 287: Hydrogen-2 is present to a small extent in every drop of water. In fact 0.02 per cent of all hydrogen is hydrogen-2. Since there is an enormous amount of water in the oceans of the world, fusion of hydrogen-2 nuclei offers a virtually unlimited supply of poser, enough to satisfy the entire world's needs, at a thousand times the present level, for a billion yyears. Indeed, similar fusion reactions are now known to be the principal source of energy for all the stars in the universe. Our own sun is really a giant fusion reactor. Thus in a real sense man would be tapping the basic energy reserve of the universe, if he learned to get energy from nuclear fusion.

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544

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