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A Brief Chronology
A Brief Chronology
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Montana: The Early Years
1914–1918 Montana: The Early Years
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An Automotive Adventure
1918 An Automotive Adventure
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Commander “Snake” Thompson
1923 Commander “Snake” Thompson
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A Classroom on Guam
1927 A Classroom on Guam
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Mastering a Native Tongue
1928 Mastering a Native Tongue
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Montana Ranger
1928 Montana Ranger
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From a Wild West to an Inscrutable East
1927–1929 From a Wild West to an Inscrutable East
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Major MacBean of His Majesty’s Secret Service
1928 Major MacBean of His Majesty’s Secret Service
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A Tradition of Wisdom
1927–1929 A Tradition of Wisdom
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Barnstorming in America
1930 Barnstorming in America
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The Marine Corps
1930 The Marine Corps
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The Poetry Experiment
1931 The Poetry Experiment
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The Human Memory Conundrum
1931–1932 The Human Memory Conundrum
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The Longest Sentence
1931–1932 The Longest Sentence
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A First Class in Nuclear Physics
1932 A First Class in Nuclear Physics
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Living the Stories
1933–1941 Living the Stories
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A Picasso Show
1938 A Picasso Show
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The Dynamic Principle of Existence
1938 The Dynamic Principle of Existence
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An Invitation
1938 An Invitation
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Through Hell and High Water
1940 Through Hell and High Water
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Eskimo Translation
1940 Eskimo Translation
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A Splendid Ship’s Crew
1943 A Splendid Ship’s Crew
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Training Ensigns
1943 Training Ensigns
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War and the Mind
1944 War and the Mind
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Thought Was Boss
1945 Thought Was Boss
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A Footnote of the Atomic Age
1945 A Footnote of the Atomic Age
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An Engineer’s “Education”
1946 An Engineer’s “Education”
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Criminal Colleges
1948 Criminal Colleges
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Special Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department
1948 Special Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department
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A Psychiatrist’s Meticulous Records
1948 A Psychiatrist’s Meticulous Records
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A New Atomic Equation
1952 A New Atomic Equation
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The Machine Age
1954 The Machine Age
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A brief chronology
on the life of
L. Ron Hubbard

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INTRODUCTION
HUMANITARIAN
WAR YEARS
AUTHOR
UNIVERSITY
ADVENTURER
FAR EAST
EARLY YEARS
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE
EARLY YEARS
THE
FAR EAST
ADVENTURES
& EXPLORATION
UNIVERSITY YEARS
AUTHOR
THE
WAR YEARS
HUMANITARIAN
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EARLY YEARS
1914-1918Montana: The Early YearsIn 1914, when Ron was but three years old, his father secured a homestead on the outskirts of Helena, Montana. This was the country he would later describe as immense and “swallowing men up rather easily.” Hence, one had to live larger than life simply to survive.

There are only two tests of a life well lived, L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life’s work, including the more than ten thousand authored works and three thousand tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the generations of students now reading superlatively, owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions more freed from the lure of substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; still more touched by his common sense moral code; and many millions more again who hold his work as the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.