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German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930)
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Koninklijke Wegener NV was a Dutch publisher of newspapers. It was the largest publisher of daily regional newspapers, free local newspapers and special interest magazines in the Netherlands. It also sold internet products and graphical products. The company ...
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While Christine Jorgensen was not the first male to undergo sexual reassignment surgery -- the Danish painter Einar Wegener had the operation in 1933 and changed his name to Lill Elbe -- she was the first transsexual to receive world-wide publicity.
Unfortunately, Alfred Wegener was not the man that geologists wished to provide it.
What Wegener found at Cape May was the last and best true school of seamanship in the Western world.
As long ago as 1912, the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener based his then revolutionary proposal of continental drift on exactly this kind of information, and his work was subsequently expanded by many investigators.
No mechanism was known for continental drift (now subsumed in plate tectonics) when it was proposed by Alfred Wegener in the first quarter of the twentieth century to explain a range of puzzling data in geology and palaeontology.
She was also cute as a button, and that was something Wegener had never thought of an ensign before.
Worse, The Honorable Janko Wegener, the Saginaw sector governor, was even more venal than most, and it seemed obvious to ONI that he saw the turmoil in his command area as one more opportunity to line his pockets.