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Some of the 35-ton machine had been shipped to Los Alamos, New Mexica, during World War II and returned to Princeton after the bomb had been made. The reassambling process took place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire at Princeton Ruins Cyclotron; Magnets Salvaged | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

...continued to smolder fiercely in Mexico through centuries of foreign oppression and exploitation. Mexico City was actually founded almost a century before Europeans were informed that there existed an American Continent. Long before the Pilgrim Fathers arrived to dwell in bigoted rusticity among savages, the American tribes calling themselves Mexica or Azteca had created the Mexican Empire and evolved a high and urban state of civilization, with courts of justice, a highly developed agricultural, mechanical and artistic technique, and a stone architecture which commanded the respect of the luxury-loving Spaniards when they arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Quieter Mexico | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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