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Henry Herbert Gordon-Clark fishing at the Test River, England
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Henry Herbert Gordon-Clark fishing in the Test River, England. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble on verso: "Mr. Gordon-Clarke 1925 [ca.]". Gordon-Clark is standing in tall grass, on the left bank of the river, and is holding a fishing pole.
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Gordon, W. Stan
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Two letter of correspondence, regarding ideas for the Los Angeles Times centennial, between W. Stan Gordon and Otis Chandler. Also in this is a letter from Gordon to Lois Markwith and a note from Markwith to Otis Chandler, Tom Johnson, Bill Thomas and Gordon Phillips.
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Phillips, Gordon
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Three items of correspondence; a congratulatory letter sent from Otis Chandler to Gordon Phillips in the Promotion and Public Relations department; and a two page memo to Freddie Miller from Gordon Phillips, regarding the Special Cups. Also in this folder are two Polaroid pictures of the cups and a note from Freddie Miller to Otis Chandler.
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Contracts between The Planetary Society and Babakin Space Center
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This collection consists of material created by and related to The Planetary Society since its beginning in 1980 and up to 2016. It contains Board of Directors correspondence, memorandums, and meeting minutes; material related to public relations, events, fundraising and membership; copies of The Planetary Report (not a complete set); NASA photo files; material related to the Solar Sail and the Mars Rover program; NASA and space exploration in general; Apollo reports; the Hubble Telescope; and US and Russian cooperation in space (including Planetary Society staff's trips to Russia). The collection also contains photographs and negatives; video cassette tapes and film; clippings; T-shirts, posters, badges, stickers, memorabilia; artwork; and miscellaneous material. There is material both about and by: Carl Sagan (including his 265-page curriculum vitae), Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Buzz Aldrin. There is artwork by space artists Ron Miller, Michael W. Carroll and Mark Paternostro among others.
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Gordon, Mitchell
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General Gordon
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"The death of Charles George Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was the signal for a spate of biographies, essays, monographs, and sermons, varying considerably in accuracy and bulk, but all composed in a mood of solemn or ecstatic reverence. Twenty years later the flood of public eulogy had shrunk to a trickle, for the twentieth century was not greatly interested in soldier-saints or Christian warriors. Even the iconoclasts of the 1920's left him severely alone, though their prototype, Lytton Strachey, included him among the Eminent Victorians and contrived in what Lord Elton describes as 'a characteristically feline and unfounded innuendo' to convey the suggestion that Gordon was a drunkard. But Strachey's caricature leaves out just as much as did the cruder full length sketches of the nineteenth century. If Gordon was something a great deal more self-contradictory than the orthodox Christian warrior of the original hagiographers, he was also something much more formidable and much more mysterious than Strachey's pious, tripping Eminent Victorian. His courage was uncanny, his energy boundless; as a ruler of primitive peoples and as a commander of primitive troops, he has few equals in history. His religious unorthodoxies were manifold and strange, yet few have displayed a simpler or a surer faith. Yet with all the qualities, all the defects, and all the achievements--whether of soldier or saint--have been reckoned up, the sum total cannot be said to be, quite simply, soldier-saint. The truth is that there was a further, less easily definable, quality by which every other aspect of Gordon was transfused and on occasion, distorted. He was one of the greatest and one of the strangest in the long line of British eccentrics. Neither the original hagiographers nor the more recent debunkers discovered the real Gordon. Lord Elton's biography, based on the examination of many of hundreds of Gordon's unpublished letters, presents his extraordinary personality, with all its fascinating contradictions, for the first time in the round. It throws new light upon many episodes in his career and contains an enthralling account of the last terrible days of Khartoum and of the hesitations and tergiversations by which Mr. Gladstone's government ensured its fall"--dust jacket.
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