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Yesterday was our nation’s birthday, and I hope you celebrated it in a big way! Did you have a cookout with the traditional summer fare–hamburgers, hot dogs, ribs and all the tasty side dishes of corn, cold slaw, and baked beans? But did you top it off with a gigantic birthday cake sporting a vast array of red, white, and blue candles? Most likely you spent time with your friends and family enjoying some type of food gathering, but I doubt if you had a cake with 200 plus candles. Not until I did some quick math, did I realize […]

I am always on the lookout for WWII resources of any kind…books, personal stories, news articles, music and unusual memorabilia. What’s interesting and exciting is that I keep finding things in the most unlikely places. Take for example my current find, The Unbreakable Code, a children’s book written by Sara Hoagland Hunter and beautifully illustrated by Julie Miner. Would you believe I found it at a garage sale in Phoenix? It was the last place we stopped on the way home, and it was challenging to get there on the rough, narrow desert road. But after parking the car, I […]

Maria, born in Germany was the only child of a professor who understood the value of education. She attended Gottingen University, a rarity for a woman then and planned to become mathematician. However, she found her true niche in studying physics. In 1930, she received her doctorate in theoretical physics and met her future husband, an American who was also working in physics. That same year, they moved to New York where she continued her research and taught part time at both Columbia and Sarah Lawrence College. At Columbia, she became part of the Manhattan Project exploring the potential of […]

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” On June 23, 1912, Alan M Turing was born in London, England, and eventually became a noted British mathematician, logician and cryptographer. He is recognized as the father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence. In 1936 he invented the “Turing Machine,” an abstract information-processing mathematical model that foreshadowed digital computers. During WWII he worked for the Government Code and Cypher School and was a member of their top-secret code-breaking team at England’s Bletchley Park. There he played a key role […]