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User:John Fleck

2007-03-25T03:07:04Z

John Fleck:

I am not the [http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof1/flec1.html John Fleck] whose art has been deemed "dirty".

User:John Fleck

2007-03-25T03:06:30Z

John Fleck: New page: I am not the [http://http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof1/flec1.html John Fleck] whose art has been deemed "dirty".

I am not the [http://http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof1/flec1.html John Fleck] whose art has been deemed "dirty".

Klaus Fuchs

2007-03-25T00:06:58Z

John Fleck: grammar fix

Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988) was one of several communist spies who independently leaked atomic secrets from the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos to the Soviet Union. Fuchs was a brilliant German physicist who had belonged to the Communist Party of Germany in the 1930s. Fuchs had scientific achievements in his own right, including a patent with John von Neumann and the discovery of the Fuchs-Nordheim model for calculating energies in nuclear reactions.<ref>http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:mOpQgi0wEyQJ:classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/ne/spring2001/ne453/Pulse-lab.doc+%22Fuchs-Nordheim%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a</ref>

In addition to passing secrets to the communist Soviet Union about the design of the [[atomic bomb]] and, after the war, initial attempts to design a [[hydrogen bomb]], Fuchs also gave production information that allowed the Soviet Union to estimate how many atomic bombs the United States had. As a result the Soviet Union realized that the United States was not as formidable as one might expect, because it did not hold enough atomic bombs to thwart massive communist aggression in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Shovel

2007-03-25T00:05:29Z

John Fleck:

A '''shovel''' is a tool used for moving earth, sand and other granulates. It differs from spades because it is a real tool and not a [[suit of cards]].

In 1884, John J. Holland of New Orleans, Louisiana, was granted a patent for a "combined shovel and shield." While shields and shovels had been used independently before, Holland's innovation was to combine the two functions in a single device. The shovel's blade was to be "quickly fixed in the slotted end of the handle," and was intended to be used in entrenchments, breast-works or rifle pits in war, or making roads or prospecting in peacetime. By carrying the device in a sling bag, one could use it as a breast plate in battle to protect the wearer. As an additional innovation, Holland suggested that a hollow handle could be used to carry small items, such as eating utensils or toilet articles. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted patent number 291,782 to Holland on Jan. 8, 1884.