134 Manuel Bromberg Soldiers Resting on Omaha Beach, Normandy 1945 Manuel Bromberg was a member of the War Artist Unit for England and Ireland during World War II and was present during the invasion of Normandy. He does an exceptional job of visualizing the variables of combat stress (the individual, the unit, and the battlefield) in this watercolor of three exhausted soldiers from World War II...

This historic-sociologic study aims to analyse the challenges faced by the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's Air Transportation Nurses of the Army with the Theatre of Operations on the course of World War II. The primary source was comprised of a photograph from this time period and oral testimonies of those who participated in the conflict. Ideas by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu support the discus...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the memory of World War II has been used in state-led nation-building processes of post-Soviet countries to foster a sense of national belonging. This paper provides an insight into the offi cial discourse of World War II in Russia and Ukraine by concentrating on a comparative analysis of World War II representations in Russian and Ukrainian school histor...

Similarly to his great predecessors P. L. Tschebyshev and A. M. Lyapunov, the academician A. N. Kolmogorov (25.04.1903– 20.10.1987) was not only a universal mathematician, proposing and developing fruitful ideas, he also readily answered challenges presented to him in his capacity as an applied mathematician. He had an amazing ability to get to the root of a problem, to determine fundamental is...

EVERYONE knows that a population bulge, the post– World War II baby boom generation, will be reaching retirement age beginning around 2010. Already, this aging of the population is being reflected in the debate over “saving social security.” Various proposals for fixing social security have been offered, ranging from modest payroll tax increases and benefit cuts to investments in the stock mark...

Debates over America’s heavy reliance on employer-provided private pensions have understated the profound role organized labor played after World War II. Archival evidence from prominent unions and business associations suggests that the shift in organized labor’s strategy after the New Deal toward electoral activity helps explain critical interventions by Northern Democrats into the system of ...

the european countries' stances towards bush's pre-emptive war were hard. this has been caused by some factors; first, the political european tradition of balance of power in regional and international system is still continuing. second, the pre-emptive war has led to an increase of u.s mobility power in european security field. and at last the pre-emptive war has led to fractions and...

her professional training at (the Royal Free Hospit3' ̂ London, but her studies were interrupted first ^ illness and ithen by the first world war, during ^ ? she worked in an aircraft factory. She resumed ^ medical studies after the war, and graduated ^; Ch.B. at (Bristol University in 1927, taking the Conj0' diploma lin the same year. A series of (house P? c., completed her training, and she th...

missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. of 4500 patients admitted to the ghaem medical center in the first two years of the iran-iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. the mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with world war i, 60% and world war ...