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A Summarization Of The American Civil War
1,485 words... 25 October 2003 < web >. ~Told me about the battle on the Mississippi: Meanwhile, on April 6, 1862, the largest battle on the North American continent up to that time was being fought near a unassuming West Tennessee Methodist meeting house called Shiloh Church. Grant's Army of the Tennessee was camped near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River ~Gave me the name of G. Buell: He was awaiting the arrival of General Buell's Army of the Ohio ~Told me the numbers of men and of casualties: Gran...
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Members Of The Grand Council Members Of The Grand Mussolini
1,069 words... enter him. "After his arrest, Mussolini was taken to a ski lodge on Gran Sasso d'Italia in the Apennine mountains about 75 miles north-west of Rome. The lodge was accessible only by a railroad and had been built so recently that it was not marked on military maps or on mountain climbers charts. But German intelligence agents under the direction of SS Captain Otto Skorzeny had learned of Mussolini's whereabouts, and at Hitler's direction a rescue mission was organized. To determine how safe t...
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Western Front 000 Men
452 wordsHow did the events at Gallipoli lead to the creation of the Anzac legend? Australia's involvement in World War One can be seen by many as the very essence of Australia's identity, especially the involvement at the Gallipoli peninsular. The battle of Gallipoli was the first major step made by Australians towards nationhood and the development of the Anzac legend. The Gallipoli campaign and the Anzac legend that emerged from it have had a significant impact on ideas about Australia's national iden...
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Iwo Jima Small Island
965 wordsThe year was 1945, and the war was winding down. The US was working on rooting out Japan and ending the war. Because they were dealing with an island country, they had to find a way to get at them without flying long distances. Japan was trying to defend their land while still waging war on other countries. The meeting point then for both objectives was Iwo Jima, a small island about 650 miles away from Tokyo on Japanese soil. Both countries were determined to fight long and hard for the island....
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My Big Trip To Hawaii
1,058 wordsI decided to write about my first big trip and the reason for picking it was I was sitting there trying to think of something to write about and could not think of anything. All of a sudden it came to me. The only thing in which I could remember a lot about is my first time to Hawaii. I am going to talk about how I felt and what everything looked like when I first saw the island also what it was like to fly for the first time in my life. The first time going to Hawaii was also the first time in ...
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Cold War Control System
1,263 wordsThe Cold War background to the Arrow. The threat was from across the Pole, and the swaggering post-war Royal Canadian Air Force wanted a strong deterrent. Design: The Arrow was primarily a triumph of innovative design. Here we glance at a few of the aircrafts design features. The Arrows fall from favor is an account of political intrigue and indecision in the face of a technologically changing world. The seeds that would ultimately doom it would be sown very early in the Arrow's life. In Decembe...
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Boo Radley Radley Place
504 wordsThe story is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, who is almost always called by her nickname, Scout. Scout starts to explain the circumstances that led to the broken arm that her older brother, Jem, sustained many years earlier; she begins by recounting her family history. The first of her ancestors to come to America was a fur-trader and part-time doctor named Simon Finch, who fled England to escape religious persecution and established a large farm on the banks of the Alabama Riv...
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Game On April Speed Balance And Grit One
853 wordsFights dont just break out. Everything happens for a reason, including two guys trying to bash the others brain in. The most obvious is when someone on the other hockey team takes a cheap shot at one of the star players. Some nights you can actually feel a fight brewing, almost from the opening face-off. Both teams are running at each other, and its just a matter of time before fists and elbows start flying. A lot of times, fighting is a true game tactic. The Chicago Blackhawks star enforcer, Bo...
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Short Happy Life American Heritage Dictionary
1,175 wordsThe short stories "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" were both written by world renowned author Ernest Hemingway. The two stories are written completely unrelated to each other; however, both stories have vast similarities in the time and place in which they take place. Hemingway is a writer that is very methodical in his word choices. When reading these two stories a second time the reader finds considerable differences in the writing style the author uses...
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World War Ii President Franklin D
1,377 wordsEvents of World War II World War II was fight across mre land and involved mre men than any ther war in the history f human civilization. Never before r since has there been a war f such vast importance and f such a large scale. Frm 1939 - 1941, at the dawn f All Hitlers war machine in Europe, the United States seemed are the rest f the world. Separated by the vast Atlantic can, the U. S. enjoyed an incredible amount f security. We were also entirely untouchable frm the flames f war rapidly grow...
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Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara
1,490 wordsErnesto? Che? Guevara Che Guevara was the Argentine born Marxist guerrilla who helped oust the corrupt Cuban government and set up a communist system 90 miles from the US. Che under the leadership of Fidel Castro helped lead a small guerrilla band of soldiers to take over the country. After the old government was out Che helped Castro decide communism as the way to go for Cuba. He helped Castro try to quickly industrialize the country, set up social reforms to try, and make Cuba a better place f...
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Success And Failure Enemy Ships
436 wordsC. S. Foresters Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure C. S. Foresters Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure C. S. Foresters Lieutenant Hornblower: Success and Failure In the novel Lieutenant Hornblower there were a few scenes were Hornblower was a success and a few were he was a failure. In my opinion the first success of Hornblower was when he used all the cannons on one side of the ship to free them from the mud holding the ship. Another success was when Hornblower suggested a landin...
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Waiting In The Lobby Landing Gear Plane
443 wordsAfter many hours of waiting in the lobby, the plane finally left the hanger. I took one final glance at where I had been sitting for the past two hours and was glad that the plane decided to come. As I walked toward the plane, I thought about all the terrible things that I encountered while I was waiting in the lobby. The only bad thing was that the lobby would be the easiest task to overcome. When I boarded the plane and sat down all the trouble before that moment seemed to be erased. We starte...
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Isn T Good Time
1,550 wordsYou Know Not What You Have Until it is Gone As I abandon the once freezing cold chair that has since been warmed by my presence, I can not fight the smile that is on my face. Maybe I? m just selfish, but I love it when there isn? t a crowd, and I don? t have to share the park. Looking down the hill, I can see that only three other people braved the chill and had the will to get up this early. As I work my way to a secluded corner to strap into my bindings, my view is enhanced. Though I? ve seen ...
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Ian Malcolm Jurassic Park
762 wordsThe premise of the novel is discovering the ability to recover and clone fossilized dinosaur DNA from the abdomen of fossilized gnats and mosquitoes preserved in amber (fossilized tree sap). There is a high degree of biotechnological applications as these procedure are explained. The novel has basically three underlying themes: 1. The latest theories on the behavior of dinosaurs and their biological relationship to modern day bird The theory of chaos and the problems with mans attempt to control...
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Artistic Talent Computer Animation
1,403 wordsAnimation Computer Animators Computer Animators Animation as an art form has been around for almost one hundred years. From the earliest days of hand drawn cels, individual pictures strung together, to the complex rendering of 3 -D virtual worlds, animation packs peoples lives. Do you wonder how the computer-animated movies are made or want to become a computer animator? Computer Animation is a fast growing field. There are many different areas to of animation, computer animation is what this pa...
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Boys And Girls Motor Skills
783 wordsGymnastics involves many movements of the human body. There are varies exercises and performances completed in gymnastics which are performed at different levels of motor skills. This is what allows us to see how children advance in motor skills. As a young child many start off slow doing there activity the way the feel comfortable. While I was observing the 5 and 6 year old children I noticed right from the start that the boys and girls seamed to get along with each other quite well. The boys i...
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Hit The Ground 1936 The Hindenburg Ship
834 wordsThe Hindenburg, originally Hindenburg HINDENBURG The Hindenburg, originally designated the L. Z. 129, was a rigid AIRSHIP built by the firm of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Completed and tested in 1936, it was the worlds first transatlantic commercial airliner. The airship was 245 m (804 ft) long, had a maximum diameter of 41 m (135 ft), and was kept aloft by 200, 000 cu m (7, 000, 000 cu ft) of hydrogen in 16 cells. Four 1, 050 -hp Daimler-Benz diesel engines provided a to...
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Decided To Make Fort Worth
1,172 wordsIntroduction The first F- 16 was developed in 1974. They wanted a lightweight fighter that wouldn t cost as much as the fighters they had at the time. They also needed a way to have a bomber without going out and building another bomber which would cost millions more. So they decided to turn the F- 16 into a fighter / bomber and it all worked out. Here s how. The Lockheed F- 16 Fighting Falcon They F- 16 Fighting Falcon was developed and produced by General Dynamics Corp, until they went bankrup...
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Island Of Iwo Jima Island Of Iwo Marines
718 wordsThe Battle for Iwo Jima The battle for control of the island of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles in both Marine and American history, began February 19 th, 1945 as part of the island-hopping campaign of the Pacific theater. Ultimately, 26, 000 Marines would be wounded or slain exceeding Union losses at the battle of Gettysburg. Beginning in the summer of 1944, long range American B- 29 s had been pounding the Japanese islands. However, because of the great distances from U. S. bomber bases...
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