The centennial of flight has brought about a renewed interest in the first airplanes and their flight characteristics. It is known that the first Wright Flyers were unstable, but history showed that they were flyable. It is the longitudinal handling characteristics that are of interest in this paper. Wind tunnel tests have been performed on the 1903 Flyer and provide limited aerodynamic data, b...

As part of a book symposium on Erwin Dekker's Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise Economic Expertise (2021), Michele Alacevich reflects Tinbergen's vision economic expertise as a-political.

In the last fifteen years or so, lawyers working in law and economics and economists with an interest in legal matters have turned their attention to the topic of bankruptcy. A large amount of work has resulted, both theoretical and empirical, some of which has been concerned with the functioning of existing bankruptcy procedures and some with bankruptcy reform. Although researchers in this are...

Philanthropy aimed at helping medical research has been around for a long time. In the 19th century, cash awards were distributed by the French Academy of Medicine according to criteria determined by each generous donor. It was thus that Mrs. Bernard de Civrieux endowed the Academy each year with the task of supporting one or more laureates whose work furthered understanding of "nervous disease...

For island dentistry, 1903 was something of a landmark year, notable for the founding of the Dental Society of Hawaii and the enactment of legislation setting new, rigorous standards for professional licensing. When Dr. John Morgan Whitney, Hawaii's first resident graduate dentist, delivered the presidential address before the first annual meeting of the Society the following January, he in eff...

In this paper, we present the VI-CCD photometry of 11 unstudied clusters located in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as a part of a project aimed to infer the star formation history of this galaxy. We derive the ages of these clusters by means of isochrone fitting. Three close pairs of clusters are included in the sample, namely NGC 1903-SL 357, SL 349SL 353, SL 387-SL 385. We discu...

This article explores the origins of an old brass monocular microscope in the Central Laboratory in Khartoum, which used to be the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratory in Khartoum (1903-1934). Examination of the microscope and review of published literature gave clues to the historical background of this microscope. Identical microscopes were first manufactured by R and J Beck in 1898, and con...

Aploparaksis turdi sp. n. (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) is described from the robin, Turdus migratorius L., and recorded also from the varied thrush, Ixoreus naevius (Gmelin), from Iliamna Lake, upper Alaska Peninsula. This cestode is distinguished from the three previously known species of Aploparaksis s. 1. occurring in passeriform birds by the size and number of rostellar hooks and by the arran...

Blue plaques on London houses associated with famous people are a familiar sight to the Londoner as well as to the visitor to the metropolis. There are at present around 400 of these plaques, which commemorate the eminent in many walks of life, such as politics, the law, the arts, and the sciences. Of these, a couple of dozen relate to medicine, and it is these that I have collected together he...

The type and additional material from adjacent territories of species of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 of Iran are revised. Eight species are recognized, three of which are described as new: L. (s.str.) frischi sp.n. (Iran, Esfahan), L. (s.str.) schawalleri sp.n. (Iran, Elburs) and L. (s.str.) antennata sp.n. (Iran, Golestan). Two synonyms are proposed: L. (s.str.) binotata Reitter, 1901 = ...