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  2. Betty Webb - Wikipedia

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    Lena was raised in foster homes and knows little about her own background, but learns more as the series progresses. Betty Webb is one of a number of successors to authors such as Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky and Liza Cody and their female private eye series. Her books have some similarities to those of Muller, and of Nevada Barr ...

  3. James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant , or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope . [ 9 ]

  4. Roy Chapman Andrews - Wikipedia

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    The book Camps and Trails in China [2] records their experiences. In 1920, Andrews began planning for expeditions to Mongolia and drove a fleet of Dodge cars westward from Peking . In 1922, the party discovered a fossil of Paraceratherium (then named " Baluchitherium "), a gigantic hornless rhinocerotoid , which was sent back to the museum ...

  5. What to know about James Webb, the NC native and ... - AOL

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    James Webb was born in 1906 and lived in rural Granville County, on the northern border of North Carolina. His father was the superintendent of Granville County Schools. Webb attended UNC-Chapel Hill.

  6. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    The plot of the book unveils the last period in the life of Jesus Christ as revealed through the first-hand experience of two pilots (or rather "timenauts"), members of a US Air Force top-secret military experimental project on time travel codenamed "Operation Trojan Horse", who in 1973 supposedly succeeded in travelling back in time to the ...

  7. Desert Valley - Wikipedia

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    Desert Valley, a 1926 American silent Western film This page was last edited on 4 July 2018, at 20:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. Born Fighting - Wikipedia

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    Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America is a book by American politician and author James "Jim" Webb.It describes the history of the Scots-Irish ethnic group, summarising their Scottish roots and time in Ulster and the Plantation of Ulster before entering a more elaborate narrative of their time in the United States of America.

  9. James R. Webb - Wikipedia

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    James Ruffin Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American screenwriter. [1] He was best known for writing the screenplay for the film How the West Was Won (1962), which garnered widespread critical acclaim and earned him an Academy Award .