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Winton’s is the first study of the Bulge to examine leadership at the largely neglected level of corps command. Focusing on the decisions and actions of six Army corps commanders—Leonard Gerow, Troy Middleton, Matthew Ridgway, John Millikin, Manton Eddy, and J. Lawton Collins—he recreates their role in this epic struggle through a mosaic of narratives that take the commanders from the pre-war training grounds of America to the crucible of war in the icy-cold killing fields of Belgium and Luxembourg.
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Some astronomers believe that the central Bulge was the first massive component of the Milky Way galaxy to have developed, earlier and faster than the thick disk. Although the central bulge formed relatively quickly on a timescale of around a billion years, the bulk of the metal-rich stellar population of the Galactic bulge appears to be very old, with an age of around 10 ± 2.5 billion years (Zoccali et al, 2003; and Ortolani et al, 1995). There are traces of a small fractions of intermediate-age stars born in subsequent eras, and of metal-poor stars, which may well be the oldest stellar population in the galaxy. Unlike the arms of spirals which are active star-forming regions, the bulge probably formed in a series of starbursts about 12 billion years ago – that is, more than a billion years after the Big Bang (Zoccali et al, 2006; and Iye et al, 2006). Old giant stars dominate in the bulge, centered around the supermassive central black hole (Minniti and Zoccali, 2007; and Venllenari et al, 1999.) However, enough gas and dust are still being drawn in from outlying regions by gravitational attraction towards the massive galactic core that extremely high-mass but short-lived stars (such as the Pistol Star) are still being born in the bulge, even near the central black hole.
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Bulge bracket is a phrase associated with finance, in particular the investment banking industry. It has both a common meaning and a more technical meaning. Historically, the two meanings were more closely linked than they are today.
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The memorial itself has the shape of burnt-out ruins, as found in 1945 in Luxembourg after the "Bulge". Several bronze plaques immortalize those U.S. units that were specifically engaged in this secor.
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