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U S Government Crazy Horse
1,347 words... ny and C. F. Smith. During the summer of 1868 his request was accepted. The troops moved. A civil war hero William Tecumseh Sherman moved into the territory as the new commander of the plains. He had plans to get the treaty signed. His hopes were to, shut up the congressional critics, get the Sioux to agree on already and maintain the army's morale. After negotiations were made Red Cloud lead one hundred-and twenty-five leaders of the Sioux nations to sign the treaty of 1868. This treaty gua...
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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,353 wordsIn the early hours of October 11, 1806, while en-rout to Washington to defend himself against accusations made on him in accordance to the financial decisions made by him as goober of the Louisiana territory, Meriwether Lewis shot himself in the head with his own pistol at Natchez Trace. 1 However, the ball only grazed his skull. Of course, after doing so he fell to the floor in pain. After this, Lewis drew his second pistol, and shot himself in the chest, this passing through his body and exiti...
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San Diego Union Diego Union Tribune
1,602 wordsThe reputation of California as being a place to "jettison assumptions and try different things" appears to have originated from its earliest days. By reflecting on the individual who discovered San Diego, we see stamina, determination, and the desire to "continue on, "find success, " and to maximize opportunities to their fullest. Back in the 1540 s there was a Portuguese explorer and soldier by the name of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (? - 1543). He was known as "a skilled mariner and navigator. " ...
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Inca Emperor Three Years Pizarro
562 wordsFrancisco Pizarro was born in the year 1445 in Trujillo, Spain, a small town near Caceres, Spain. He was the son of a Spanish infantry captain. He spent his childhood in one of the poorest regions of Spain with his grandparents. He never really learned to read and write. In 1502, he traveled to the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola with the governor of that Spanish colony. Pizarro took part in an expedition to Columbia in 1510, and three years later accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in a journey th...
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Balboa A Spanish Conqueror And Explorer
788 wordsVasco Nuez de Balboa, a Spanish conqueror and explorer, was the first to see the coast of the Pacific Ocean. He saw the ocean in September of 1513, from the top of a mountain of what is now Panama. On September 29, 1523, Balboa claimed it and all its shores for Spain. His findings opened Spanish explorations and conquests along the western coast of South America began. The Spanish called the ocean the South Sea because it lay south of the isthmus of Panama. In 1520 a Portuguese explorer named Fe...
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Slave Traders Missionary Society
645 wordsDavid Livingstone was one of Africa's most important explorer. He lived from 1813 to 1873. He was originally a Scottish doctor and missionary. Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813, in Blantyre, Scotland. In 1823 he began to work in a cotton-textile factory. While studying medicine in Glasgow, he also attended classes in theology, and in 1838 he offered his services to the London Missionary Society. After completing hid medical course in 1840, Livingstone was later sent as a medical missionary ...
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Ross Met Press Conference Movie
616 wordsCongo was an astounding bestseller novel. It was a great fictional novel that took place in the depths of the Congo rainforest. The novel was later made into a movie. Both the novel and the movie were good, however, I prefer the novel. It just seemed like a more entertaining piece than the movie. This movie was based much upon the novel, but had many alternatives and a completely different ending than the novel. The first difference between the novel and the movie was the press conference that w...
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Science Fiction Los Angeles
1,243 wordsIn The Martial Chronicals, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy and inhumanity of modern society, rather than the technology. (Bryfonski, 68) Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 to Leonard Spaulding and Ester Bradbury in Waukegan, Illinois. He began his writing at...
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Abraham Lincoln Dark Haired
1,446 wordsThe year 1866 is an important time in nautical history. It is the year that the world was first terrified by an amazing ocean going monster, the Nautilus. During that year several ships had met with this "thing, " a long slender object far greater in size than any creature known to man. After numerous sightings and the pass of many months the "monster" began attacking any vessel that drew near. This alarmed all the world's nations and the United States decided that they would send out the Abraha...
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Funk 038 Wagnalls Christopher Columbus
445 wordsChristopher Columbus s First Voyage to America Christopher Columbus commanded, in 1492, the first recorded European expedition to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the Americas. Nevertheless, he was not the first European to land in that part of the world. Adventurers from Norway, Iceland, and Greenland had almost certainly settled briefly in Newfoundland and may have landed elsewhere on the coast of North America (Christopher Columbus). There is also some evidence to the effect that fishermen ...
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Espa Ola Santo Domingo
511 wordsColumbus, Christopher (1451 - 1506), Italian-Spanish navigator, who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but landed on islands in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. In the mid- 1470 s he made his first trading voyage in the Aegean Sea. Believing that the earth was smaller than was previously thought and that it was composed mostly of land, Columbus eventually decided that Asia could be reached quickly by sailing west. His request to the king of Po...
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Hundred And Fifty Vel Zquez
1,376 wordsConquering of the Aztec Empire There is no way but up, there is no retreat. We must go forward to Mexico and see if this great Montezuma is as great as he proclaims himself to be (Chapter 2). Cortes told his men this when they were considering mutiny because of suffering from devastating fevers and constant Indian attacks. After Cortes powerful statement the men then cried out, forward, to Mexico, to Mexico (Chapter 2). This was not, by any means Cortes first exploration. He was a very experienc...
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Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
889 wordsStarting All Over The Martian Chronicles By Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury? s the Martian Chronicles is a futuristic story about space travel, invasion and planet colonization. Analyzing characters in this twenty-eight-chapter novel is extremely difficult because every chapter includes different characters, which are oriented to form the plot. Each chapter? s characters are used to show the founding of the planet Mars, the colonization of it, the destruction of Earth and almost the whole human race, ...
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John Smith American History
863 wordsJohn Smith has proved himself to be an inspiring leader and a skilled explorer who played a significant role in American history. His many accomplishments included helping found the original colony of Jamestown, saving it from a starving time, leading various expeditions of exploration, and courageously escaping from the Indians. John Smith had the qualities of a great leader, and all of his men seemed to think highly of him. Smith always recognized good qualities of his companions, and often co...
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Searching For Petrol Exploring A Remote Ape
245 wordsKING KONG 1933 An expedition crew exploring a remote island come upon a giant ape. The crew decides to capture the ape and take it back to New York for exhibition. The ape falls in love with a young beautiful actress who accompanied the expedition crew. King Kong? s love for the actress causes him to escape. The actress is captured by the ape and taken to the top of the Empire State building. The actress is later rescued and the ape killed. Main Characters: Ann Darrow, Carl Denham and Jack Drisc...
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One Of The Vessels Magellan Voyage Maximilian
639 wordsIn the early 1500 s, almost four and a half centuries before men first orbited the earth; an expedition completed and led by Ferdinand Magellan performed a task of comparable significance for that time period. Magellan, a Portuguese navigator for Spain, sailed westward with a fleet of five ships from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda in September, 1519. Nearly three years later one ship returned, having circumnavigated the globe and crossed its largest ocean. A Philippine battle is where Magella...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
970 wordsMost adults today have most likely read the story of Tom Sawyer, a novel about young boy who grew up on the Mississippi River, or a writing by Mark Twain. But what most people do not know is that the author actually grew up on the Mississippi River himself. That author is Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the name of Mark Twain. Mark Twain came from the Western Movement Era in American History, which took place from 1783 to 1825, which was when Americans were moving west to find gold and land. On ...
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Climbers Dont Obey Turn Around Time Everest
517 wordsDid you know that one out of every six climbers dies on each expedition? In my opinion I think that there should be guidelines and regulations to climb Mt. Everest. One reason is that just any person that wants to go up there can pay 65, 000 - 100, 000 dollars just to go up to Everest not even knowing nothing about mountain climbing. Second reason is that there are to many people on Everest at one time which can cause bottlenecks and other safety hazards. My third reason is because the weather o...
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Pancho Villa Del Norte
1,486 wordsDoroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons, who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves, Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so, he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen, Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre for the next fifteen ...
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Felt That Earthmen Colonize Mars Spender
445 wordsThe Martian Chronicles, written by Raymond Bradbury, is a book that discusses s what might happen if Earthmen were to try to colonize Mars. There were four expeditions by Earthmen to Mars. The first three expeditions were destroyed by martians who were jealous or who were afraid of being colonized. The fourth expedition was different. There were no hostile martians or any martians at all. The men sent out a search and discovered that the martians had been wiped out by chicken pox, presumably tra...
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