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Delivering Pretzels in Berlin

Description: Front cover of the Winter 2009 issue of The Hexagon, featuring a man in a Berlin shirt riding a bicycle laden with large pretzels. A small dog on a leash follows alongside of him. The inside cover has a table of contents, a list of staff, and an editorial.
Date: Winter 2009
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Nikolaikirche and Apotheke zum Bären, Berlin, Germany

Description: Front cover of volume 100, issue 1 of The Hexagon, featuring the multistory brick and stone church, Nikolaikirche. The church's first several floors are comprised of older stone work while the upper stories use newer red brick. People and vehicles are on the street near the church, and a row of buildings can be seen in the background to the left. The magazine's logo is printed over the church's bluish roof spires. The inside cover contains a table of contents, staff credits, and an editorial.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Agricola

Description: Article describing the career and discoveries of Georgius Agricola. Tourist information regarding locations important to his life are visited and discussed.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Althofen, Austria and Auer von Welsbach

Description: Article recounting a visit to sites related to Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, discoverer of lutetium and ytterbium and inventor of the incandescent "Welsbach mantle." Maps and tourist information are provided regarding the Welsbach Museum in Treibach, Austria.
Date: Spring 2002
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Aluminum

Description: Article describing the history of aluminum, from its use in alum to its isolation. Tourist information is given regarding locations pertinent to aluminum.
Date: Summer 2006
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Description: Article describing the career and discoveries of Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Tourist information regarding locations important to Scheele's life are visited and discussed.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Courtois and Iodine

Description: Article describing the history of iodine, including its discovery by Bernard Courtois while during the production of saltpeter. Tourist information regarding pertinent locations is included.
Date: Winter 2009
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Europium. Eugène Demarcay

Description: Article describing Eugène Demarcay and his discovery of europium. The authors toured Paris, France, in search of locations important to Demarcay, providing the reader with maps and historical information regarding the sites.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Fluorine

Description: Article describing the isolation of elemental fluorine. Tourist information is given regarding locations pertinent to the element's history.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Gallium

Description: Article describing the discovery of the element gallium. The authors travel to sites pertinent to the history of gallium, including the home and laboratory of its discoverer and the location from which it was procured.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Germanium

Description: Article recounting the history of the element Germanium, including background material on mining in Germany and the isolation of Germanium by Clemens A. Winkler. Tourist information is provided regarding Winkler's laboratory and mines open to the public as museums.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

Description: Article describing the life of Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner and his attempts to systematically organize the elements. Tourist information regarding locations significant to his history is included.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Jöns Jakob Berzelius

Description: Article describing the life and career of Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Tourist information regarding locations significant to his history is included.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Klaproth

Description: Article describing the life and career of Martin Heinrich Klaproth, including his discoveries of uranium and zirconium. Tourist information regarding locations significant to his history is included.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Mineral Waters and Spectroscopy

Description: Article describing the career of Robert Bunsen and the history of spectroscopy and its use in mineral analysis. The discovery of cesium and rubidium using spectroscopy on mineral water is included. In addition, the authors offer tourist information regarding locations pertinent to Bunsen and certain mineral water springs.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Montpellier and Bromine

Description: Article recounting the history of the element Bromine, including its discovery in the salt lagoons of the Montpellier region of France by Antoine-Jérome Balard. Maps of the region and of Balard's birthplace are presented.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Paracelsus

Description: Article describing the career and discoveries of Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Tourist information regarding locations important to his life are visited and discussed.
Date: Winter 2005
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Phlogiston and Lavoisier

Description: Article describing the rise and fall of the eighteenth century idea of phlogiston. Tourist information is provided regarding pertinent areas of phlogiston's history.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Phosphoro di Bologna

Description: Article recounting a visit to sites related to the discovery of phosphorescent stone (barium sulfide) in Bologna, Italy. Maps with driving directions are included.
Date: Summer 2002
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Riddarhyttan, Sweden

Description: Article describing the authors' tour through Riddarhyttan, Sweden, to visit the areas where cerium and cobalt were discovered. Maps and photographs of pertinent locations are located as well as a history of the area and the elements discovered there.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Tellurium and Fata Baii (Fascebanya), Romania.

Description: Article describing the discovery of the element tellurium. The authors travel through Romania to visit the Transylvanian mine where tellurium was discovered. They also visit the Brukenthal Museum of Sibiu and describe the museum's mineral collection.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: The Periodic Table

Description: Article recounting the history of the development of the Periodic Table. Sites pertinent to this development were visited by the authors, who provide related tourist information.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: The Platinum Metals

Description: Article describing the history of the platinum metals, from its discovery in the New World and subsequent experiments in Europe. Tourist information is provided regarding areas pertinent to the history of platinum.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: The Road to Karlsruhe

Description: Article describing the history of atomic weight and the events leading up to the Karlsruhe Congress of chemists. The authors visited several sites pertinent to these events and offer tourist information.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
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