An extraordinarily brave soldier and a charismatic leader, his attempt to kill Hitler on 20 July at the Nazi leader's eastern HQ - known as the 'Wolf's Lair' - will receive the Hollywood treatment in a new film, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise and Kenneth Branagh, being released next year.
Despite being almost a hundred years old, Dorman proudly proclaims that it's new since 1918 because of its desire to be constantly innovative. This is how it actually began. Ten years after the automobiles became popular in America, brothers Jack and Lew Dorman began taking replacement parts from junked cars and selling them in 1918.
Coltan, short for Columbite-tantalite is a metallic ore comprising Niobium and Tantalum, found mainly in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formally Zaire). When refined, coltan becomes a heat resistant powder, metallic tantalum which has unique properties for storing electrical charge.Of the 525 tons of tantalum used in the USA in 1998, 60% was used in tantalum capacitors, with a predicted growth rate of 14% per annum (from Uganda Gold Mining Ltd web site).t is therefore a vital component in the capacitors that control current flow in cell phone circuit boards. Mining Coltan. Coltan is mined by hand in the Congo by groups of men digging basins in streams by scrapping off the surface mud.