Maximiliano hernandez martinez biography of albert einstein

  • The authoritarian and eccentric General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez became president of El Salvador after a military coup overthrew the freely elec A.
  • Author, Patricia Parkman ; Publisher, Albert Einstein Institution, 1990 ; Original from, the University of Virginia ; Digitized, Oct 22, 2009 ; ISBN, 1880813009.
  • Nonviolent insurrection in El Salvador: The fall of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.

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    VolXII #4 September 9, 1998

    Editor, Roy Lisker 8 Liberty Street # 306 Middletown, CT. 06457 aberensh@lynx.neu.edu rlisker@yahoo.com

    Note: A tribute was presented to me on my sextionde birthday (September 24th, 1998) in the form of a webpage. It contains photographs and news clippings about me going back to the activism of the 60's; also writings, and commentary from Kenn Thomas, editor of Steamshovel Press, (free wheeling political conspiracy magazine published in St. Louis.) It's better than any resume I've ever put tillsammans on my own. Internet tillgång is at http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/royalien.htm.

    "A Beautiful Behind" Book Review: Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind, a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.; Simon & Schuster, 1998; $25; ISBN: 0-684-81906-6 I. This fryst vatten a bad book: bad in its social philosophy, bad in its conception, bad in its scholarship, of bad mentality. It is intellectual biography reduced to the level of pulp fiction. However, it's a bad book about an imp

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    A Year in History: 1932 Timeline

    1932 saw many events that hit newspaper headlines and lots of celebrities being born, from writer Sylvia Plath to Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s Restaurants. During 1932, there were also some key political movements occurring in Germany which would later become very significant ahead of World War II.

    Other key events included Amelia Earhart’s record-breaking flygning that made her the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 also saw great sporting achievements in the III Winter Olympics and the X Summer Olympics. Take a look at our 1932 newspaper archives to see original newspaper headlines from 1932.

    1932 Timeline

    Turn the page to:

    January

    January 4: British colonials in India arrested and imprisoned spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi.

    January 5: Chuck Noll, who was an American football player and the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was born in Ohio, USA.

    January 6: Stuart Alan Rice, a theoretical physical c

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    The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (who died in 1980) was perhaps the greatest theorist of cognitive development and education of the twentieth century.  His books are classics and his various explorations of childhood games, rules, knowledge, education, etc. are of outstanding quality.

    A central work of Piaget’s for our purposes of educational deepening is his small masterpiece To Understand Is to Invent: The Future of Education.

    We respectfully disagree with arguments put forth in this book which we see as overly narrow. Take these words on the uselessness of Eskimo knowledge: “We are like the old Eskimo who was asked by an ethnologist why his tribe so piously preserved certain rites, and answered that he could not understand what was the meaning of that, saying: ‘We preserve our old customs so that the universe will continue.’ ”

    Piaget continues: “For primitive man, the universe is a great machine in unstable equilibrium where all is related to everything else (the social cu