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Used in book: The nations at war, August 1914 - August 1916 By Willis John Abbot books.google.com/books?id=KOk7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA163&l...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Zeppelin Honolulu Evening bulletin., March 21, 1910, 2:30 EDITION, Page 6, Image 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016413/1910-03-21/ed-... links Zeppelin and Heigesell in relation to an expedition to the North Pole using a Zeppelin airship. The general suitability of balloons for polar exploration has survived for a century. See ScienceDaily: Zeppelin Expedition Will Survey Sea Ice In The Arctic www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070412093800.htm

The Professor's last name appears actually to be Hergesell. See, e.g., www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/ship4536.htm First name appears to be Hugo metafrog.blogspot.com/2007/04/hugo-hergesell-scientist-te... Here's another LoC picture of Hergesell: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002722092/

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swanq: Thanks for the link to the book where this picture appeared, and for the correct spelling for Professor Hergesell's name. We'll include this information next time we update the description.

Bain's copy photo of the burning airship "L-2":

LOC----- Bain's caption has the name spelt as "Colemann."

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Dernberg and Delbruck were among a group signing a July 1915 petition to the German government against annexation of foreign territories by Germany. Already in October 1914 Delbruck had published a warning against plans of conquest. See books.google.com/books?id=ko-fAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA232&l...

Perhaps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_von_Delbr%C3%BCck But perhaps more likely the Hans Delbrueck mentioned in www.freefictionbooks.org/books/b/19339-the-better-germany...

Could Dernburg be the guy here, Dr. Bernhard Dernburg: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft46q2... If so, page 3 may suggest more context for the photo: "The following article is from the pen of Mr. Edwvard Marshall and was printed in the New York "Times" of September 6, 1914, a few days after Dr. Dernburg's arrival in the United States in the interest of the Red Cross Society."