My forthcoming biography "The OTHER Manhattan Project" celebrates the 75 years since Dr Dawson birthed Antibiotics in Manhattan on October 16th 1940. This project was more from Venus than Mars, more Emma Lazarus than Gordon Gekko. Defying governments, defying Allied/Axis eugenics, even defying the team's physical disabilities. But in the end, Manhattan beaconed the right of EVERYONE to receive life-saving penicillin out to a world tired, huddled and wretched.
Oct 16th 2015 : 100 years since news of Edith Cavell reaches America
October 16th 2015 (starting to seem like a very familiar date isn't it ?) marks the 100th anniversary of when the world first learned of the execution of nurse Edith Cavell in Belgium....
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