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    Probst, Marvin G.

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    Biographical information for Marvin G. Probst

    George E. Probst Papers

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    George E. Probst (1917-1986) held many positions in both broadcasting and education from 1944 to 1983: Executive Director, Office of Radio and Television, University of Chicago (1944-1954); Founder, director and Producer, University of Chicago Roundtable (NBC) (1944-1954); Chairman, committee that presented before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the case for assigning television channels for education (1949-1950): Chairman, finance committee, Joint Committee on Educational Television (JCET) (1950-1952); Chairman, Committee of all educational institutions, Chicago Metropolitan Area Educational Television (1951-1953; Chairman, Adult Education Committee administering Fund for Adult Education grant for production of radio series The Jefferson Heritage (co-author), Ways of Mankind, People Under Communism, Voice of Europe(1951-1953); Director, radio and television programming, WGBH (Boston, MA) (1954); Co-founder, President, Broadcast Foundation of America (1955-1983); Producer, director, writer,Democracy in America, a series based on Alexis de Tocqueville's observations of American life and politics (1958); Director, National Educational Television and Radio Center (1960-1966); Executive Director, National Commission for Cooperative Education (1966-1976); Consultant, U.S. Office of Education (1968-1976). The collection documents Probst's participation in National Conference on Citizens Rights in Broadcasting, October 1970 as well as the public television programms: Tocqueville's America and The University of Chicago Roundtable

    Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Records - Item 2762: Map of City of Bethlehem

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    This map shows a plan of Bethlehem made from surveys by Jacob Dillinger and John C. Brickenstein. It is a lithographic copy produced by J. Probst in Philadelphia, Pa. It was authored by Abraham Hübener and drawn by P. Jarrett in 1841

    Le Serpent, persistance de son culte dans l'Afrique du Nord.

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    Probst-Biraben J.-H. Le Serpent, persistance de son culte dans l'Afrique du Nord.. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1933, tome 3, fascicule 2. pp. 289-295

    Peter Probst (2022) - What is African Art ? A Short History

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    Critical review: Peter Probst, What is African Art ? A Short History, Chicago/Londres, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 275 p.Recensé : Peter Probst, What is African Art ? A Short History, Chicago/Londres, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 275 p

    Therates similis , PROBST and WIESNER 1994

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    20. Therates similis Probst and Wiesner (Fig. 147) Therates similis Probst and Wiesner 1994b: 93, 94, f. 3, 8. Therates similis. Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 64, T. 17, f. 11, 12, T. 41, f. 3. Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, paratype female in NHMW. Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “S Thailand, Betong, Gunung Cang dun vill., Yala dist., 25. 3.- 22. 4. 1993, J. Strnad leg.” [printed, yellow]; “ THERATES, similis, PROBST and WIESNER, det. J. Wiesner 1994” [printed]; “HOLOTYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders]. Paratype female! Type labels: “S Thailand, Betong, Gunung Cang dun vill., Yala dist., 25.3.- 22.4.1993, J. Strnad. ” [printed, yellow]; “COLLECTION J. Probst” [printed]; “PARATYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders]; THERATES similis PROBST and WIESNER, det. J. Wiesner 1994" [printed]. Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elytral maculation with extremely laterally located central dot, and yellowish color of the marginal ventrites. Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.5 mm- 7.6 mm, (mean= 7.1 mm, n=2). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 151, female Fig. 152) barely wider than long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in female, somewhat longer in the males, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, all the other antennal segments brownish or darker, distal two segments in males flattened. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete. Elytra: Shining brownish black, with basal and apical humps, evenly punctate but shallower at the apex (Fig. 148). Apex with angular lateral and sutural corner, slightly recurved between them. Maculation (Fig. 149) composed of a large brownish yellow humeral lunula extending from the marginal to the middle suture, leaving open only a small blackish dot at the lateral margin of the basal humps, connected with a brownish yellow horizontal central dot with back margin slanting, orientated outwards toward the front and a light yellow apex, reaching the apical humps. Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites yellowish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: (Fig. 150) curved, with long bulb distally, total length 1.7 mm. Distribution. Thailand (Yala).Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, pp. 1-86 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (315) on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517698
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