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Albert James Myer (September 20, 1828 – August 24, 1880) was a surgeon and United States Army general. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
The first Weather Bureau radiosonde was launched in Massachusetts in 1937, which prompted a switch from routine aircraft observation to radiosondes within two years. The Bureau prohibited the word "tornado" from being used in any of its weather products out of concern for inciting panic (a move contradicted in its intentions by the high death tolls in past tornado outbreaks due to the lack of ...
Fury suspects that the Winter Soldier is a brainwashed Bucky Barnes, Captain America's former sidekick believed to have died during World War II. Fury further suspects that the Winter Soldier is linked to Aleksander Lukin, a Russian oligarch and former KGB general, and that Lukin is in possession of a Cosmic Cube, a powerful reality-warping object.
A time of flowers, warm weather, Red Sox baseball, our favorite seasonal places reopening, reconnecting with nature, all the good stuff that lets us know winter is over." — Cathy Summers 100.
James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Originally introduced as a sidekick to Captain America, the character was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941) (which was published by Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics).
Guenter Lewy (left) with Oliver Schmidt in 2016. Guenter Lewy (born 22 August 1923) is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” — Anamika Mishra “Every winter has its spring.” — H. Tuttle “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not ...
White was born in Boston [1] and was an alumnus of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding degrees in geology and meteorology.. He was the director of the United States Weather Bureau from 1963 to 1965, the first and only administrator of the Environmental Science Services Administration from 1965 to 1970, the first administrator of the National Oceanic and ...