Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed his first glass-walled skyscraper in postwar Berlin, Yehudi Menuhin made his precocious debut, with Einstein in the audience to applaud him. George Grosz sorted among his years of savage observation on Berlin's wide boulevards and published Ecce Homo. Vladimir Nabokov was there, observing an elderly, rosy-faced beggar woman with legs cut off at the pelvis..set down like a bust at the foot of a wall and...selling paradoxical shoelaces. " Fyodor Vin berg, one of the Czars departed officers, was there, publishing a shoddy newspaper promoting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which he had personally introduced into Germany from Russia-a new German edition of that pseudo-machiavellian, patently fraudulent fantasy of world conquest sold more than 100,000 copi... (查看原文)
In the summer of 1922 the rate of exchange in Germany sank to 400 marks to the dollar. It fell to 7,000 to the dollar at the beginning of January 1923, the truly terrible year. One hundred sixty thousand in July. One million in August and 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar on November 23, 1923, when adjustment finally began. Banks advertised for bookkeepers good with zeros and paid out cash withdrawals by weight. Antique stores filled to the ceiling with the pawned treasures of the bankrupt middle class. A theater seat sold for an egg. Only those with hard currency-mostly foreigners-thrived at a time when it was possible to cross Germany by first-class railroad carriage for pennies, but they also earned the enmity of starving Germans. (查看原文)
去年年底去了洛斯阿拉莫斯Los Alamos国家实验室，在这个位于新墨西哥高原小镇的历史博物馆里，我购买了这本题为the Making of the Atomic Bomb的800页大部头英语书。这部获得普利策奖的书初版于1986年，而我购买的是25周年纪念版。 作者Richard Rhodes并不是物理专业出身，在25...
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Leó Szilárd 齐拉，http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard 一位我从未听说过的匈牙利物理学家，试图敦促美国政府研发原子弹。他鼓动一帮子世上最牛的核物理学家，先是派出鼎鼎大名的费米同学，以为诺贝尔奖得主的名声与权威可以镇住军方，没曾想一个助理军官蔑称他为“黑...
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0 有用 氢氧化喵 2013-07-18 22:48:28
西拉德这家伙不错，还有二战轰炸好可怕