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On August 1st, 1936, 22-year-old James Cleveland Owens strode into the Olympic Stadium as a member of the amateur athletics team representing the United States of America during the opening ceremony in Berlin, Germany.

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    In 1978 Population III stars were introduced. These extremely hot stars devoid of metals are predicted by cosmological theory but as yet undetected. One of the goals of the James Webb Space Telescope will be to find them.

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Voller, R. (2021). War: Ultimate Disruptor (1937-1945). In: Hubble, Humason and the Big Bang. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82181-4_11

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