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About 2500 years after Pythagoras suggested that the Earth was round, 2320 years after Aristotle, following the teachings of the Pythagoreans, had asserted the same, and had declared that the great Asiatic Empire could be reached by sailing westwardly, 1940 after Seneca confirmed this view, and affirmed that India could be reached in this way, and 501 years after the Italian, born in Genoa, Christopher Columbus discovered America, a Russian, the well-regarded poet Dr. Shvedchikov, rediscovers America, in the same year, 1993, when the Pentium microprocessor for computers is produced, the World Wide Web is created, the light emitting diodes were invented, Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope takes place, and the US and Russia sign the Start II treaty calling for bilateral reduction of strategic nuclear weapons.This book is based on Dr. Shvedchikov's collection of notes about his first travel in the US, and on their translation in Russian. It must be mentioned that Barbara DeKovner-Mayer and Godfrey Harris had a key role in organizing and supporting this travel.This captivating book, with very inspired and humoristic descriptions of his travels, will certainly have, together with his six poetry books, a visible place in the English and Russian literary space, and will also remind us of Seneca's aphorism: Si vis amari, ama (If you want to be loved, love).

Advanced composite materials engineering is one of the most important area of research and development at the present time. Composite materials are a mixture of two or more different components, whose properties complement each other, and the result is a material with superior properties to those specific to each component. The utilization of composite materials is growing fast in strategic fields such as the aircraft, automotive, biomedical, naval and space industries, as well as in textile, paints, magnetic fluids, high-quality paper coatings, and microelectronics.These Proceedings of the 4th International Conference "Advanced Composite Materials Engineering" COMAT 2012 include 67 papers, which analyse many important practical applications. The topics range from wood engineering, sonic composite visualization, asphalt mixtures with polypropylene fibers and dental filling materials, to design optimization of composite stiffened structures for aerospace applications, new lignocellulosic composite materials, incorporation of different inorganic nanoparticles in polymer matrix, and carbon fiber reinforced polymer-matrix composites.

A prima vista (at first glance), many tasks appear to be impossible, until a few good people succeed to finish them - then everybody enjoys the results. This is the case with having peace, freedom, good health, good education, harmony and prosperity for all - it will be done sooner than many expect.From a world sustainable peace, good health, freedom and prosperity point of view, this November 2020 had - beside the worrying news of great increases in war-related expenses and preparations - the unusually complicated COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a serious medical issue, which shows the need for a unified world, focused on the health, wellbeing and freedom of all people. Now some good news: researchers are mining ore or electronic waste with special types of microbes; artificial intelligence helps to design antimicrobial dental adhesive; NXP partners with Amazon on connected cars; biomimicry is being used to advance materials and design for future medical devices; T-cell immunotherapies for cancer are personalized to patients.In this World Monthly Report, which is the 49th in total, we included the most relevant news, in a balanced approach, usually directly from the source, to help the general public better understand the realities around us. Being well and correctly informed is a sine qua non requirement for everybody, in order to make the right decisions for the future, which future begins to take shape in our recent books. This World Monthly Report provides the information needed for making the best-informed decisions.Enjoy this World Monthly Report, and be optimist!

June 2019 started with cold meteorological conditions, and some other cold news, but, fortunately, there are still plenty of better news: now there is an anti-aging treatment, which helps the elderly to have healthier muscles; a robotic hummingbird is using machine learning to go where drones cannot; Amazon drones will be making deliveries in months; NASA is developing a way to continuously measure medical analytes without having to take blood or tissue samples; artificial intelligence is more frequently applied in oncology; on the 4th of July everybody celebrates America the Beautiful.In this 8th newsletter of the third volume, the 32nd in total, we included the most relevant news, in a balanced approach, usually directly from the source, to help the general public better understand the realities around us. We included also several nice photos - I thank my wife for her photo assistance. Being well and correctly informed is a sine qua non requirement for everybody, in order to make the right decisions for the future, which future begins to take shape in our new chapter "The Future of People on Earth".This newsletter provides the information needed for making the best-informed decisions.Enjoy this newsletter and be optimist!

May 2019 started with some hopeful strategic news, and many other good medical news, as well as other news: Point-of-Care diagnostics are more common place now; there are many intense research projects in robotic-assisted coronary procedures, 3D-sensing industrial robotics, and deep-learning-enabled dynamic robotics; Blue Origin (and Amazon) founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled the company's "Blue Moon" lunar lander, which will be able to deliver payloads to the lunar surface, deploy up to four smaller rovers, and shoot out satellites that orbit the moon; researchers have developed a moldable bone substitute called Novogro Putty that can be implanted into the site of a bone fracture, and degrades as the bone naturally heals; hummingbird-like unmanned flying drones were developed at Purdue, to advance micro technology.In this 7h newsletter of the third volume, the 31st in total, we included the most relevant news, in a balanced approach, usually directly from the source, to help the general public better understand the realities around us. We included also several nice photos - I thank my wife for her photo assistance. Being well and correctly informed is a sine qua non requirement for everybody, in order to make the right decisions for the future.

April 2019 started with World Health Day on 7th, and there are many good medical news, as well as other good news: a new wearable sensor monitors health through sweat, using nanotech; using AI, IBM helped NASA fix one of its satellites, which is on a geosynchronous equatorial orbit; Comcast and T-Mobile launched anti-robocalling feature; Amazon has new investments in air cargo transport companies; researchers found that nanomaterial helps heal damage after a heart attack.In this 6h newsletter of the third volume, the 30th in total, we included the most relevant news, in a balanced approach, usually directly from the source, to help the general public better understand the realities around us. We included also several nice photos. Being well and correctly informed is a sine qua non requirement for everybody, in order to make the right decisions for the future.Enjoy this newsletter and be optimist!

From Plato it is well known, for over 2360 years, that the necessity is the mother of invention. Then Archimedes, over 2230 years ago, clearly stated: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world", and "There are things which seem incredible to most people who have not studied Mathematics". Starting with the invention of languages, Archimedes' screw, and Heron engine, there are many wonderful discoveries presented here, which help us to understand how we arrived at the current advanced level of technology. Do you remember Huygens, Hertz, Cartwright, Volta, Babbage and Cerf? They, and many others, will be happy to tell you about their inventions. Is there a connection between The Count of Monte Cristo and Chappe's invention? This book will surprise you.Starting from 1943, in a chronological order, we present the invention history, which was commemorated in the last 76 years. There are also many attractive and historic photographs. This book, for the general public, reminds us of the influential innovators who changed our world, and offers a variety of relevant information not only about them, but also about numerous other personalities and important events. The more you read, the more you'll love it!