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Henry Draper Summary
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1837-1882 American astronomer and professor of medicine who took the first photographs of the Orion nebula (1880) and the spectrum of a star (Vega, 1872). He built the instruments he used for these and other photographs, including images of the moon...
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Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 – November 20 1882) was an American doctor and astronomer. Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University; he was also the first to...


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The Hudson Review
Ruth Draper
04/01/2002: 3,467 words, approx. 12 pages
ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST ACTORS AND WRITERS never appeared in a stage play or film, and never published a word. Although she is all but forgotten today, the monologuist Ruth Draper (1884-1956) performed nonstop for over four decades on every inhabited continent, often in...
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New York
The Draper Effect
03/27/2006: 965 words, approx. 3 pages
Her eye-popping colors, oversize prints, and controlled flourishes once defined urban interior sophistication. Now the exuberantly anti-Minimalist Dorothy Draper is front and center again. BY WENDY GOODMAN IF YOU'VE BEEN FEELING compelled lately to hang a giant, scroll-framed mirror over your coffee table,...
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AP News
'Big Bang' pioneer Ralph Alpher dies
8/24/2007: 356 words, approx. 1 pages
Ralph Alpher, a physicist whose pioneering work on the underpinnings of the "Big Bang" theory went unheralded for years while others won a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 86.Alpher died Aug. 12 in Austin, Texas. He had been honored by President Bush with a...
 


 

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