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  2. Pigeon photography - Wikipedia

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    News reports suggest that the camera was used in the 1970s, [36] that the pigeons were released from planes, and that it was a failure. [37] In 1978 the Swiss magazine L'Illustré printed an aerial photograph of a street in Basel , taken by a pigeon of Febo de Vries-Baumann equipped with a camera with a hydraulic mechanism. [ 17 ]

  3. Apothecary - Wikipedia

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    Apothecary (/ ə ˈ p ɒ θ ə k ər i /) is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients. The modern terms 'pharmacist' and 'chemist' (British English) have taken over this role.

  4. American services and supply in the Siegfried Line campaign

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    American services and supply played a crucial part in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies from Normandy in mid-September 1944 until December 1944, when the American forces were engulfed by the German Ardennes offensive.

  5. Mark Felton - Wikipedia

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    Mark Felton (born 1974) is an English author, historian and YouTuber.Felton has written over a dozen non-fiction books. He runs several channels on YouTube covering different historical subjects of the 20th and 21st century, mainly related to World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

  6. The War (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    The War is a seven-part American television documentary miniseries about World War II from the perspective of the United States.The program was directed by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey Ward, and narrated primarily by Keith David. [1]

  7. History of pharmacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the cities, the foundations of commercial pharmacy were slowly building. By 1721 there were "14 apothecary shops in Boston," [11] and the first "commissioned pharmaceutical officer in an American army" was the Boston apothecary, Andrew Craigie. [18] A sort of warrior-apothecary, he took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. And ...

  8. Show globe - Wikipedia

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    Apothecaries and physicians were usually considered more conservative in their practice before the 18th century and often restricted themselves to non-chemical drugs using material of largely botanical origins. Most historians today feel the show globe began as a symbol of the chemist's shop. Eventually the apothecaries began to use chemical ...

  9. History of pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    Babylon, a state within Mesopotamia, provided the earliest known practice of running an apothecary i.e. pharmacy. Alongside the ill person included a priest, physician, and a pharmacist to tend to their needs. [4]