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Pearl Harbor Attack Aircraft Carriers
1,189 words
December 7 th, 1941, was the opening of World War
2, in the Pacific arena. In 1931, Japan invaded
China's northern parts and then in 1937, Japan
announced a full invasion of China. The United
States couldn't just stand by and let Japan take
over Asia's parts, so they moved their fleets to
Pearl Harbor. The strongest ships were the
battleships, which were named after the states of
the union. U. S. Arizona was made in 1915 and then
was Rebuilt and updated in 1930. The ship was
surrounded with over...
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News World Report Korean War
1,910 words
War! That word is a scary word for a lot of
people. Back in 1950 that word was especially
scary for the people of Korea, when war broke out.
This war was to last for three years. Three years
of bombings, hand-to-hand combat and misery. In
some cases, however, the soldiers were the safest
people of all of them. Especially, if you were one
of the lucky few who got to be pilots. Whether you
were a pilot for Russia flying their new top-notch
MIG- 15, or were flying the US, also new and
top-notch, Sa...
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War In The Pacific Aircraft Carriers
1,189 words
The Second World War engaged the energies of the
American people for almost four years and was
fought on a scale not even conceived by prewar
observers. The war in the Pacific was long and
arduous due to the fact the Japanese were never
willing to surrender. At the beginning of the war
most battles were fought between aircraft carriers
and their planes. The most significant of these
was the Battle of Midway. This island was barren,
but a strategically important outpost guarding the
western appro...
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Bermuda Triangle Coast Guard
1,229 words
The Bermuda Triangle is a triangular area in the
Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and
Puerto Rico. Many people believed that people,
ships, and planes have mysteriously vanished in
this area. The size of the triangle varies from
500, 000 square miles. Some trace the mystery back
to the time of Columbus. Bermuda Triangle
estimates range from about 200 to no more than 8,
000 distress calls in the area and that there have
been more than 50 ships and 20 planes to go down
in the Bermuda Tria...
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Machine Guns San Francisco
1,473 words
The 1920 s were a time of changes in many areas of
the American lifestyle. Examples include the
changing roles of women, the African American
struggle for equality, the changing sound of
music, new forms of literature, growth of cities,
and the development of airplanes and their uses.
Major aircraft development started during World
War I because America was striving to be stronger
than any other country. War brought about the
development of fighter and bomber airplanes;
machine guns were mounted...
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World War Ii Atomic Bomb Was Dropped
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World War II was the biggest war ever fought.
Nearly 30 million people were killed in it. About
half were civilians while the other half were
soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The war was fought
all over the world, but the most important battles
took place on the Islands in the Pacific and in
Europe. The two sides were called the Axis and the
Allies. The war lasted from 1939 to 1945; the
chief countries of the Allies were the United
States, Great Britain, Russia, France, and China.
The Axis countri...
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Bermuda Triangle Puerto Rico
1,393 words
The Bermuda triangle, or the devils triangle, is
an imaginary area located off the southeastern
Atlantic coast of the United States. It is the
greatest modern mystery of our supposedly well
understood world. It is noted for a very high
incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small
boats, and aircraft. The tips of the triangle are
generally thought to be Bermuda, Miami, Fla. , and
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Many theories attempting to
explain the many disappearances have been offered
throughout the...
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World Trade Center Al Qaeda
3,393 words
... knew three weeks before 9 - 11 that two
hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar,
who were involved in the bombing of the USS Cole
in November 2000, were in the United States.
Although their names were listed in a watchlist of
potential terrorists, which contained names of
people for which the entry to the US is forbidden
because of their terrorist connections, al-Hazmi
and al-Mihdhar were not stopped at their entry
into the US neither were they arrested later.
Although the CIA knew t...
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Three Dimensional Failure Rate
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... based on weather, obtain accurate demographic
data using small samples, compute probabilities,
use tests of significance to determine if a lot of
weapons with a given failure rate had indeed come
from an armorer clan whose weapons have a
historically known failure rate, and so on.
Unsophisticated devotees of Hr or Was would
presumably consider such calculations heretical,
but it seems very Tkumelani that the Inner
Doctrines of these Temples would include a great
body of work in statistical t...
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Dimensional Space Straight Line
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... stability is most intriguing: that the Tree of
Reality is a multidimensional fractal. Fractals
(to make a long story short) arise from unbounded
convoluted lower-dimensional curves filling a
higher-dimensional space. The fractals we are
familiar with are formed using lines (sometimes
these are contour lines defining the properties of
certain regions when a function is applied to
them), which are 1 D objects, but partially fill a
sheet of paper, which is a 2 D space. The 3 D
volumes of the Ma...
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Psychedelic Drugs Physical Body
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... on on the attention itself in a specific
chakra, brings about a condition in that chakra,
in which its vibration structure is harmonically
and geometrically aligned in all of its planes of
manifestation or rates of vibration. This creates
common node points in the inner plane structure of
the chakra. Vibrations of different frequencies
and different wavelengths all begin and end
together at these common node points. This is made
possible by the fact that the wavelengths of the
various vibrat...
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September 11 2001 Order To Make
1,482 words
September 11, changed the entire worlds attitude
on airport security, and how important of a
concern the nations airport security was and will
continue to be. The terrorist attacks also showed
the entire world how easily the old security
technologies were to manipulate, and how much
improvement airports need before they can truly be
considered secure. The evolution of airport
security technologies has taken place over very
few years, but will continue until the existence
of airports. September 1...
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World War Ii Rolls Royce
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Abstract This paper deals with the contributions
of the P- 51 Mustang to the eventual victory of
the Allies in Europe during World War II. It
describes the war scene in Europe before the P- 51
was introduced, traces the development of the
fighter, its advantages, and the abilities it was
able to contribute to the Allies arsenal. It
concludes with the effect that the P- 51 had on
German air superiority, and how it led the
destruction of the Luftwaffe. The thesis is that:
it was not until the adve...
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Yitzhak Rabin Tel Aviv
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The name Entebbe and the operation with which it
is associated hold a special place in the annals
of the ongoing war against terrorism. To the
people of Israel, and to many others, it was a
declaration that free men need not submit to
terrorist blackmail and extortion, no matter how
impossible the alternatives may seem. Scores of
men from the Israeli Defense Force, with
unparalleled planning and preparation, made this
mission successful in what had seemed to be a
hopeless situation. Lieutenant C...
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Air Traffic Control Federal Aviation
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Topic: Federal Aviation Agency Scope: Safety In
deciding which regulated industry to research, we
wanted to pick one with plenty of information and
one that was reasonably interesting to us. So, we
have chosen to research the air transportation
industry and the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA). We will be reporting on the types of FAA
regulations the air transportation industry must
adhere to. In addition to this, we will be
explaining how compliance with these regulations
is measured. Alon...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
4,876 words
Home is Where You Dig It: A Study of Siege Warfare
Eric Dahlquist The forward French Base at Dien
Bien Phu was a bold venture by the French forces
to infiltrate Northern Vietnam in 1954, however
they underestimated their enemy and were decidedly
defeated and forced out of Vietnam forever.
Fourteen years later in an effort to turn the tide
in the Vietnam Conflict, the US Marines were
ordered to take up a position just outside the
city of Khe San, along the DMZ. They too were
attacked fiercely, bu...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor Japanese Attack
1,686 words
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor The Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor could be considered one of
the worst surprise attacks in American history.
For every Japanese crewman or pilot killed, almost
thirty-eight Americans were killed. Before the
attack, the American government had tried to
negotiate many times with Japan speakers to
withdraw their troops from China and put an end to
the war. Japan had already seized many bases in
northern Vietnam and occupied the south in July of
1941, threatening a ...
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Aircraft Carriers Pearl Harbor
3,616 words
? The key to national greatness is a strong
industrial economy coupled with a powerful navy. ?
Introduction It was 8 AM at in the Pacific on
December 7, 1941, and a harbor filled with a few
warships was being bombed. It wasn? t uncommon for
a harbor bombing during the times of World War II.
What was uncommon was the fact that the harbor
belonged to the United States, a country that
wasn? t involved in the war yet, and the country
bombing it was Japan, a country that had come out
of isolation jus...
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Air Force Base United States Senate
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John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921
in Cambridge, Ohio. He was named after his father
John Glenn Sr. John Glenn Sr. had fought in France
during World War I, and his hearing had been
impaired as a result of the fighting. After the
war he started a plumbing business and managed to
make a comfortable living for himself and his
family. John s mother Clara Sport Glenn wanted a
large family, two of her children died while they
were infants. After John was born, the family
adopted a young...
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Lend Lease Act World War Ii
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The tragic events that took place on December 7,
1941, is a story that is in American History books
everywhere. It is the date of the surprise attack
on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese just before
America entered World War II. In this paper, I
will describe the events that eventually lead to
Pearl Harbor, the attack itself, and the outcome
of the attack. Before the attack, American
Officials were becoming concerned about the rising
power in the Far East. Because of this, the United
States invited G...
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