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⚙️ Codebreakers & Technology
The Holocaust Survivor Who Built the World's First Computer
Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish-Jewish mathematician who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States, where he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. He is the co-inventor of the Monte Carlo method (wit...
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🌸 Women at War
The Women Who Mapped Normandy for D-Day
Before D-Day, the US Army's 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, staffed almost entirely by women, created the most detailed aerial maps of Normandy ever produced. Working from RAF bases in England, they analyzed th...