[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa, 1940: Graziani’s Advance and Wavell’s Offensive, 13 September 1940-7 February 1941 (Map 34a)
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[CougarGA7]

Also today:

Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg has been working since early this month with the relatively new element Neptunium (93). What is trying to be established is that a portion of this element decays up to element 94 which will be very important later (plutonium). Back on January 9th Seaborg and his Emilio Segrè bombarded ten grams of unranly nitrate hexagydrate (UNH) for six hours in a cyclotron. From the resulting product they were able to identify on January 20th that the Np238 has a daughter alpha-emmitter which they strongly believed had to be element 94.

The only way to prove this would be to separate it chemically which they began to do immediately. If it separates chemically then it is a different element, if not then it is an isotope of the same element.

[CougarGA7]