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Chemical Weapons Mustard Gas
722 wordsNew weaponry and interventions can ultimately decide who will win a war. In World War I there were many new weapons introduced into the battle scene. These new weapons were more efficient in destroying and more powerful which made the death count rise dramatically. The new weaponry in World War I helped contribute to it being one of the bloodiest wars know to man at that time. One key weapon that played a part in eventually bringing the United states into the war was the submarine, also called U...
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Jerry Seinfeld Mickey Mouse
1,607 wordsPez was invented in 1927 in Vienna, Austria by an already accomplished candyman named Edward Haas III. The word "Pez" comes from the German word for peppermint, which is phefferminz. You take the first, middle, and last letters, put them together and you get Pez. When Edward Haas first invented Pez it was originally a breath mint for adult smokers, thus the first dispenser which came along in 1947, naturally, looked like a cigarette lighter. In 1952 Edward Haas brought his business to America an...
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Thousand Years Ago Continues To Grow
1,301 wordsThere is no noun with the ability to represent modern life other than computer. Whether the effect is negative or positive, computers control nearly every aspect of our everyday life. Computers have evolved from bearing the role of strictly computing to having the ability of completing unthinkable tasks. Supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory; computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication unta...
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The Rise Of Civilization And Writing
990 wordsThe phenomenon of writing has been invented independently five separate times in the history of man. While History textbooks almost exclusively talk about the writing of Mesopotamia and Egypt, writing has also been developed in the Indus Valley, China, and Mesoamerica. This strange phenomenon has led many historians and anthropologist to conclude that writing is necessary for a complex society to exist. Nevertheless, there was a society located in the Andean Mountain in present day Peru in which...
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The Business Of George Mortimer Pullman
901 wordsGeorge Mortimer Pullman was born in Boston, New York in the year 1831. He was raised in New York, and was taught in the art of cabinetmaking in Albion. For seven years, he worked with his brother making cabinets. (Colliers Encyclopedia, 511) After those seven years, he became bored with cabinetmaking, and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1855. There he gained notice as a contractor, and became quite popular. One of his more popular accomplishments was the raising of the Tremont Hotel. He did not ga...
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Ancient History Of The Hieroglyphics
1,556 wordsHave you every wondered where all writing began? Have you often thought of the secrets about life that ancient civilizations took to their graves with them? If so, you should be very interested in learning about an ancient writing technique called hieroglyphics, which many scientists believe is the origin of all writing (Bolia 2). Hieroglyphics are not only one of the oldest recorded languages, but it also has a documented history longer by far than that of any other. Hieroglyphics were first wr...
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Westward Expansion Civil War
1,035 wordsThe economy of 1810 - 1860 was on the rise to one of the worlds best of the time and they pushed through with new inventions, westward expansion, immigration, slavery, highways and steamboats, and railroads. This time period was just after the industrial revolution and America is starting to become a true nation some thirty years after they gained their independence. One of the most influential inventions of the time was in 1837 by John Deere of Illinois, with the steel plow. This replaced the o...
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Ford Motor Company Miles An Hour
1,365 wordsIn the first hundred years of active life, it has been described as a menace ands a blessing, a blight and a godsend, as a savior of our countryside and cities, and as their curse, as socially divisive and the greatest social leveler. It has been worshipped and reviled, celebrated and scorned. " The automobile is an invention that has had a tremendous impact on society. The automobile has taken diverse segments of the American population; farmers, small town residents and urban dwellers and give...
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Vacuum Tubes Bill Gates
833 wordsComputers are a part of our everyday lives, but about two decades ago, computers were just beginning to enter homes. Many people dont realize what the computer evolved from, and the speed at which computer technology has taken to arrive to what it is today. The earliest know computer is the abacus, invented by the Chinese in 2600 B. C. Not many people consider this to be a computer, but by definition, it is. One of the more recent early computers was built by Herman Hollerith, who invented a mac...
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B C E Science And Technology
555 wordsA major legacy left by classical Greece was a government based on direct democracy. With a direct democracy, citizens ruled by majority vote. The citizenship was expanded to all free males, except foreigners. Those not considered citizens were women, slaves, and all foreigners. In 621 b. c. e. , Draco, an Athenian lawmaker wrote the first legal code. In the legal code Draco dealt with contract and property ownership, it also included debt slavery. In classical Greece, citizens were also allowed ...
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Blaise Pascal Straight Line
799 wordsThe French mathematician, theologian, physicist and man-of-letters, Blaise Pascal is a mathematician who has a reputation that rests more on what he might have done rather than what he might have actually done. Pascal has devoted a considerable amount of his life towards the devotion of religious exercise. Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne. Which is now known as Clermont-Ferrand, on June 19, 1623. And he died in Paris on Aug. 19, 1662. Pascal was the son of the president of th...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Track And Field
2,251 wordsNike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike. Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is one of the most influential world leaders in manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a multinational corporation that concludes contracts with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than 28, 000 full-time e...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Phil Knight
1,370 wordsNike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike. Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is one of the most influential world leaders in manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a multinational corporation that concludes contracts with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than 28, 000 full-time e...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Phil Knight
1,488 wordsNike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike. Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is one of the most influential world leaders in manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a multinational corporation that concludes contracts with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than 28, 000 full-time e...
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Religion And Science Science And Religion
2,063 wordsFrom the time when humans evolved there have been many explanations for events that appear out of human control. In recent history, religious and scientific views have often disagreed with one another. Religious ideas are usually presented first, and then enough scientific evidence accumulates to challenge religious beliefs. These discoveries dealing with science are looked upon with utter disbelief. Dating back to the middle ages, religion always held the answer to any question posed. Within th...
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Oedipus The King A Story That Transcends Generations
2,208 words"Oedipus The King" - A Story That Transcends Generations There is an abyss of millenniums between the story of Oedipus the King which took place in Ancient Greece and the Matrix which should never take place in reality unless the humanity stops existing as the society of Homo sapiens. The story of Oedipus the King narrated by the ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles and the threatening warning the Matrix though being parted by millenniums show that the problems which are vitally important for the m...
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Security System Computer Security
2,497 wordsAbout two hundred years before, the word computer started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didnt know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Therefore, computer become more and more popular and important to our society. We can use computer everywhere and they are very useful and helpful to our life. The speed and accuracy of computer made people felt confident and reliable. Therefore, many impo...
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Graphical User Interface Computer Industry
1,274 wordsIf you ask people to name one of the most important technologies of the twentieth century, one of the answers would most certainly be the computer. A computer, however, is not a technology all to itself. Many other technologies went into the modern home computers of today, including the mouse. Douglas C. Engelbart, a worker at the SRI (Stanford Research Institute), invented the mouse in 1964. However, the process of the invention of the mouse was not instantaneous and without effect on the realm...
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Greek And Roman Western Civilization
598 wordsWestern civilization is what we call modern society that mainly includes North America and Western Europe. But how did this western way of life come to be? Their are many different ways but mainly through ancient cultures. The two main ones are the Greek and Roman. Greece with their golden age and Rome with its great Empire and Republic and also together. Their are many ways in which western civilization is like the ancient Greek civilization. They started the Olympic games. Greeks come up with ...
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Place To Live Thomas Edison
429 wordsMatt Vanetten Vanetten 1 Mr. Murder English III Dec. 13 1999 Thomas Edison: The man of a thousand inventions Thomas Edison changed America in a very big way, He held patents for over a 1000 inventions. His most important one was the electric lamp. Thomas Edison has made America a better place to live. Born In Milan, Ohio Thomas Edison was an American genius of technology, His most known inventions were the electric lamp the phonograph and the motion picture projector. Edison set up a laboratory ...
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