Poland | Soldier and Refugee | Student and Professional in America | Julian Bussgang Lore | Julian's favorites |
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What is Lvov?
The City Where Grandpa Was Born and Raised.
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What is a tank?
The vehicle grandpa learned to drive before a car.
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What is MIT?
The name of the school that grandpa was dubious to attend since he really wanted to go to Harvard but they didn't have an engineering school at the time.
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What is make them run side to side?
Grandpa's strategy with the opposing player on a tennis court.
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What is the oatmeal raisin cookie?
Made with flour, sugar, eggs, salt, various spices, and raisins and eaten almost daily after lunch.
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Who are Stefania and Jozef?
The name of Grandpa's parents.
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What is Romania?
The country grandpa escaped to with his family when he left Poland.
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What is Lincoln Laboratory?
Grandpa got a full-time job working on designing the Pulse Doppler Radar at this well-known research and development center while getting his master's degree in electrical engineering.
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What is a patisserie?
You are on a family vacation and grandpa has gone missing. He is typically found in this location.
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What is chess?
Two opponents on opposite sides with a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors.
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What is September 1939?
The year and month of his escape from Poland.
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What is Beirut?
The city where his sister Janine attended medical school while the family lived in Palestine.
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What is Signatron?
In 1962 Grandpa founded this company.
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What is do the even and the odd problems?
You have an upcoming math test. You adopt Grandpa's strategy to prepare.
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Who is Karl May?
The author he most enjoyed in his childhood.
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Who is Aron Philipp?
Family lore is that he wrote with two hands in two different languages.
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Who was General Anders?
The military leader who led grandpa in the army in Italy whom he most admires.
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What is The Bussgang Theorem?
This states that the crosscorrelation of a Gaussian signal before and after it has passed through a nonlinear operation are equal up to a constant.
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What is pee and wee?
The words grandpa thinks have the same meaning when you change one letter.
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What is the post office?
A public facility that provides services, including accepting of letters and parcels, and sells postage.
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Who was Dzin-Dzin?
What is a dachshund?
The name of Grandpa's dog.
Bonus if you know the breed. |
What is the University of London?
The name of the school where grandpa finished his undergraduate degree and earned a B.Sc.in 1949.
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What is Sundstrand Corporation?
In 1984 this corporation acquired Signatron.
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What is stoic?
The word most often used to describe grandpa?
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What is le travail est un trésor?
The final line of this poem - Le Labourer et ses Enfants in The Fables of La Fontaine.
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