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2 days ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb " for ...
Sep 29, 2024 · Later, when the legend played for the ABA’s Virginia Squires, his nickname evolved due to the need of the hour. Erving explained, “My buddy started calling me ‘the doctor’ when I started calling him the professor. We were in maybe middle school…. When I got to the Virginia Squires, you know, they were calling the team physician ‘the ...
Sep 14, 2024 · Julius Erving (born February 22, 1950, Roosevelt, New York, U.S.) is an American collegiate and professional basketball player who was one of the most colourful and exciting figures in the game during the 1970s and ’80s. At 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 metres), Erving played forward and was noted for his fast breaks, balletic leaps toward the basket ...
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3 days ago · Bird observed that Erving's superstar status prompted him to engage in things not necessarily related to basketball. The forward, aware of the strain it might have caused Dr. J, vowed not to chart the same path. "Doc said that he never asked to be Mr. Everything, that people put him in that situation," Bird said in 1985, per the Washington Post.
Sep 15, 2024 · Caesar’s gens (clan) name, Julius (Iulius), is also familiar in the Christian world, for in Caesar’s lifetime the Roman month Quintilis, in which he was born, was renamed “ July ” in his honour. This name has survived, as has Caesar’s reform of the calendar. The old Roman calendar was inaccurate and manipulated for political purposes.
- Julius Caesar's family was old Roman nobility, but they were not rich. His father died when he was 16, but he received significant support from his...
- Julius Caesar was a political and military genius who overthrew Rome’s decaying political order and replaced it with a dictatorship. He triumphed i...
- Julius Caesar was murdered in the Roman Senate House by a group of nobles on March 15, 44 BCE. The assassination plot was led by Gaius Cassius Long...
- Julius Caesar crafted an alliance with Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompey to form the First Triumvirate and challenge the power of the Roman Senate...
1 day ago · PHILADELPHIA - 1980: Julius Erving #6 of the Philadelphia 76ers passes circa 1980 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this video, famous NBA players explain why their idol when ...
Oct 2, 2024 · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22, 1904, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 18, 1967, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (1943–45) during development of the atomic bomb and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947–66).
