Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Anthropologists have long believed that there was a protracted lag between when humans started domesticating cattle for food—about 9,000 years ago—and when they managed to harness the animals to plows and collect their milk. “It’s one thing to keep an animal in a corral and quite another thing to get near enough to milk it,” says University of Bristol chemist Richard Evershed. To get a fix on when the second stage occurred, Evershed pulverized tiny pieces of 2,200 pottery fragments from sites in the Near East to see if they contained traces of dairy fats. http://LOUIS2J2SHEEHAN.US
His results, published in August in Nature [subscription required], hint not only that people made the dairy leap just as soon as they began domesticating herd animals, but that these early “ranchers” were even processing milk and storing it. The study may also help geneticists solve the mystery of where and when people evolved the ability to digest the milk sugar lactose.http://LOUIS2J2SHEEHAN.US
To this day, most adults around the world can’t easily digest milk, but those who can may be the progeny of populations in the Near East and southeastern Europe, where Evershed finds the earliest evidence of stored milk. “It’s a very interesting study. Put the two maps on top of each other and you get a coherent pattern,” says geneticist Anders Götherström of Uppsala University in Sweden.
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derna road Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
On 24 March Rommel launched his first offensive with the newly arrived Afrika Korps. By early April he had destroyed most of Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry's 2nd Armoured Division's tanks (British 3rd Armoured Brigade) and severely damaged its 2nd Support Group at Mersa Brega[4] leaving the road south of the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountains) to Mechili open.[5] He brought forward along the coast road, elements of the 17th "Pavia" and 27th "Brescia" Divisions while pushing his mechanised units across country towards Mechili. On 6 April the leading Bersaglieri columns of the Italian Ariete Division reached Mechili. http://louis1j1sheehan.us
On 6 April Lieutenant-General Philip Neame, by that time the military governor of Cyrenaica (Wilson had been sent to command W Force in Greece), withdrew his headquarters to Tmimi. During the withdrawal his staff car was stopped by a German patrol near Martuba and both he and O'Connor (who had been sent forward from Cairo by Archibald Wavell, C-in-C Middle East Command to advise) were taken prisoner.http://louis1j1sheehan.us
The positions at Mechili were defended by non-tank elements of 2nd Armoured Division (3rd Indian Motor Brigade and elements of the 2nd Support Group). Surrounded, they fought bravely in defence of Mechili but on 8 April Gambier-Parry surrendered to General Zaglio of the "Pavia" Division.[8] 2,700[9] British, Indian and Australians were captured at Mechili after an attempted breakout was broken up by the Ariete's "Fabris" and "Montemurro" Bersaglieri Battalion groups.[6]
Many Italian field guns were captured and used against the Axis forces in the Siege of Tobruk
Rommel's initial attack plan called for his tanks to sweep around Tobruk to the Eastern side and attack from the Bardia road, so cutting the town off from Cairo. Approaching Tobruk, however, wishing to maintain his momentum, he ordered General Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, commander of the newly-formed 15th Panzer Division (most of which had yet to arrive in North Africa), to take the three battalions from his division then available to him (his reconnaissance, machine gun and anti-tank battalions) and to attack Tobruk directly from the West along the Derna Road.[10] Rommel expected that the Allied forces would crumble under this attack.[citation needed]
Soldiers from the Australian 2/28th Infantry Battalion spotted three armoured cars and fired the first shots of the siege using two captured Italian field guns for which they had only had one week's training. The cars quickly retreated. As the tanks approached a bridge crossing a wadi on the perimeter of Tobruk the Australians blew it up. When von Prittwitz urged his staff car driver to drive him through the wadi and towards the Australians his men called for him to stop, but he replied that the enemy was getting away. The staff car drove into the firing line of a captured Italian 45mm anti tank gun, whose gunner fired destroying the car and killing both von Prittwiz and his driver. A three hour skirmish then ensued after which the Germans retreated.
In the meantime the Australians continued to work on the defences, laying barbed wire, mines and other obstacles.
On 11 April, with his forces regrouped, Rommel reverted to his original plan, sending his tanks around Tobruk to the Bardia Road.
The city was now besieged on three sides (the harbour was in Allied hands) by the Afrika Korps composed of the 5th Light Division and elements of 15th Panzer Division, and by three Italian infantry divisions and the Italian Ariete Armour Division. The Allied forces consisted of the Australian 9th Infantry Division and 18th Infantry Brigade of the Australian Imperial Force, as well as 12,000 British soldiers and 1,500 Indian soldiersFriday, June 6, 2008
Ehricke lally Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
March 24, 1917 - December 11, 1984) was a rocket-propulsion engineer.
Born in Berlin, Ehricke believed in space travel from a very young age, influenced by his viewing of the Fritz Lang film Woman in the Moon. At the age of 12, he formed his own rocket society.
He attended Berlin Technical University and studied celestial mechanics and nuclear physics under such luminaries as Hans Geiger and Werner Heisenberg, attaining his degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
He worked at Peenemuende as propulsion engineer from 1942 to 1945, then went to the United States with other German rocket scientists and technicians under "Operation Paperclip" in 1947 and worked with the Von Braun Rocket Team at Huntsville. (See also German rocket scientists in the US.)
Upon leaving government service Ehricke worked at Bell Aircraft, and then for Convair in 1952. While at Convair, he designed the D-1 Centaur, a high energy, upper-stage-booster that used liquid hydrogen and oxygen as fuel.
Ehricke became friendly with Eugene F. Lally while they worked together at Convair and became his mentor. Ehricke taught Lally celestial mechanics so he could determine available payload capacities for missions to planets and booster energy required.
It has been said that Ehricke and Lally were the creative spark during the pioneering days of the American space program. Their concepts were publicized in the media and caught the fancy of the general public helping to promote space exploration and excite NASA to move forward.
In 1948 Ehricke wrote a book with Wernher von Braun, The Mars Project, which detailed how man could travel to Mars using a ferry system. This ferry system is what we now call the "Space Shuttle". He devoted his life to space exploration and, together with von Braun, was the chief advisor for North America on the Space Shuttle.
The NEXUS reusable rocket was a concept design created in the 1960s by a group at General Dynamics led by Krafft Ehricke. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
He proposed a space station Astropolis.
Space Burial in 1997 Ehricke
Ehricke's given name is commonly seen spelled "Kraft".
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