Carl Becker
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- Died
- 1859
- Works
- 58
Top works
- Beitrag zur vergleichenden Anatomie der Portulacaceen
- Kennen und Kennen-Müssen als gleich- oder nicht gleichwirkende Thatbestände im Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch ...
- Tradition und Geist
- The Spirit of '76 and other essays
- Progress and Power
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
- The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 13,909x
- Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression
· 2017 · cited 12,012x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,176x
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Quotes
- “The average Briton, as well as honorable and right honorable members of the House, had known that England possessed colonies and had understood that colonies, as a matter of course, existed to supply him with sugar and rice, indigo and tobacco, and in return to buy at a good price whatever he might himself wish to sell.”
- “Men of repute, including the staunchest patriots such as Samuel Adams and Jonathan Mayhew, expressed their abhorrence of mobs and of all licentious proceedings in general; but many were nevertheless disposed to think, with good Deacon Tudor, that in this particular instance "the universal Obhorrance of the Stamp Act was the cause of the Mob's riseing." It would be well to punish the mob, but punishing the mob would not cure the evil which was the cause of the mob...”
- “Scarce a month had elapsed since the law was to have gone into effect before it was clear to the discerning that, for all their professions, most of the "better sort" were not genuine Sons of Liberty at all, but timid sycophants, pliant instruments of despotism, far more intent upon the ruin of Mr. Adams and of America in general than any minister could be shown to be.”
- “Government had not even denied the expediency of taxing America, the total repeal of the Stamp Act and the modification of the Sugar Act having been carried on a consideration of the inexpediency of these particular taxes only. Taxes not open to the same objection might in future be found, and doubtless must be found, inasmuch as the troops were still retained in America and the Quartering Act continued in force there.”
- “The duty on British teas was slight. Americans might have paid the duty without increasing the price of their much prized luxury; ministers might have collected the same duty in England to the advantage of the Exchequer. That Britain should have insisted on this peppercorn in acknowledgement of her right, that America should have refused it in vindication of her liberty, may be taken as a high tribute from two eminently practical peoples to the power of abstract ideas.”
- “Samuel Adams had not inherited poverty nor had he, after all, exactly embraced it, but had as it were naturally drifted into it through indifference to worldly gain, the indifference which men of single and fixed purpose have for all irrelevant matters.”
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- 1895-01-16
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- 1966-03-24
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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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International Standard Book Number
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Heidelberg
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Red Army
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war crime
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Varel
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German Army
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Prague offensive
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German Cross
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6th Infantry Division
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Honour Roll Clasp
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Georg von Boeselager
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Oberst
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8th Jäger Division
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Horst Großmann
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Clasp to the Iron Cross
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253rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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Arnold Freiherr von Biegeleben
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1895 births1966 deathsGerman prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet UnionLieutenant generals of the German Army (1935–1945)Military personnel from Lower SaxonyPeople from VarelRecipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st classRecipients of the Gold German CrossRecipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves