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World War Ii Billions Of Dollars
1,094 wordsThe Cold War was a time of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war. There were real wars, sometimes called "proxy wars" because they were fought by Soviet allies rather than the USSR itself - along with competition for influence in the Third World, and a major superpower arms race. With the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, international politics and conditions affecting postwar American strategy changed radically. The cold war was a competition between the ...
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British Grand Fleet Dizzy Library Arizona War
447 wordsNever in known history has a ship taken so many of her crew down with her. Thus is the story of the USS Arizona (BB- 39). The Arizona was built as part of Americas pre-World War I modernization of the U. S. Navy. She was also built in the U. S. Navy's response to the naval arms race that had begun in 1906 when the Royal Navy completed the HMS Dreadnought. She was not a large battleship by todays standards, but before World War II, it was considered very reliable if war was a threat to the United...
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Atlantic Slave Trade 19 Th Century
1,054 wordsThe Slave Trade The slave trade of the 15 th- 19 th century is an example of the largest migration in the history of the world. This forced migration turned out to be the event that influenced the historical process until now. Although the slavery derives from the ancient world, the transatlantic slave trade appears to be the largest in its scale and amount of people involved. Approximately 12 million of people from western and central part of Africa were brought to the North and South America. ...
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European And Pacific Wars
1,488 wordsEuropean and Pacific Wars World War II was fought across more land and involved more men than any other war in the history of human civilization. Never before or since has there been a war of such vast importance and of such a large scale. The United States had an absolutely crucial role in the outcome of this war. The U. S. was faced with the colossal challenge of waging two wars at the same time on two very different parts of the planet. The European front was, of course, the more obvious of t...
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Blue Whale Atlantic Ocean
287 wordsThe blue whale or balaenoperta muscles is the largest animal to ever have lived on Earth. Whalers have reported this whale to being over 100 feet long and weighing over 150 tons! The blue whale is a mammal, because it has milk, hair, and the embryo develops in the mothers womb. The blue whale is a type of baleen whale. The blue whale eats mostly plankton and crustaceans like krill or copepods. The blue whale is located in the Atlantic Ocean. The smaller species of the blue whale, known as the py...
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Blue Whale Atlantic Ocean
290 wordsThe Blue Whale The blue whale or balaenoperta muscles is the largest animal to ever have lived on Earth. Whalers have reported this whale to being over 100 feet long and weighing over 150 tons! The blue whale is a mammal, because it has milk, hair, and the embryo develops in the mothers womb. The blue whale is a type of baleen whale. The blue whale eats mostly plankton and crustaceans like krill or copepods. The blue whale is located in the Atlantic Ocean. The smaller species of the blue whale, ...
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Blue Whale Atlantic Ocean
294 wordsThe Blue Whale The blue whale or balaenoperta muscles is the largest animal to ever have lived on Earth. Whalers have reported this whale to being over 100 feet long and weighing over 150 tons! The blue whale is a mammal, because it has milk, hair, and the embryo develops in the mothers womb. The blue whale is a type of baleen whale. The blue whale eats mostly plankton and crustaceans like krill or copepods. The blue whale is located in the Atlantic Ocean. The smaller species of the blue whale, ...
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U S Air Charles Augustus
842 wordsLindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902 - 1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit and was delivered by his great-uncle. When he was three years old, his three-story house burned down and a simpler home was built in its place. From the age of six he had his own gun and soon became an expert marksman. His mother, Evangeline Lindbergh, first en...
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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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Twenty Four Hours Lost Their Lives
555 wordsOn JuneHurrican Hurricane Erie On June 12, 3005, Hurricane Erie made land fall on the coast of Virginia. At 4: 56 am the eye of Hurricane Erie had moved across the city of Fredericksburg. Hurricane Erie huddled over the town of Fredericksburg for an amazingly twenty-four hours. Those twenty-four hours set a record for the most consecutive hours a hurricane sustained in one area. Most hurricanes do not stay in one are for more than ten hours. One day later the town of Fredericksburg was no longer...
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Tropical Storms Pacific Ocean
456 wordsTropical CYCLONE formed Hurricanes Hurricanes Tropical CYCLONE formed over the North Atlantic, E North Pacific, W South Pacific, and Indian oceans in which the winds attain speeds greater than 75 mph (121 km / hr ). A tropical cyclone passes through two stages, tropical depression and tropical storm, before reaching hurricane force. An average of 3. 5 tropical storms per year become hurricanes; one to three of these approach the U. S. coast. Hurricanes usually develop between July and October. A...
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Indian Ocean Persian Gulf
1,180 wordsIndian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water in the world, covering about 20 % of the Earths water surface. It is bounded on the north by southern Asia; on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by Antarctica. It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the 20 deg east meridian south of Africa, and from the Pacific by the 147 deg east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Oc...
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Works Of Art Part Of The Poem
1,378 wordsJack Kerouac was a poet who focused on the forgotten people of the world. Wherever he traveled he found the places nobody wanted to find and turned the un-pretty into magnificent poetry. Kerouac used the people no one wanted to remember and turned them into poetic works of art. Jack Kerouac? s life was filled with adventure and self-destruction. Born on March 12, 1922, Kerouac grew up in the poor city of Lowell, Massachusetts. His life was tormented with poverty and alcoholism, first by his fath...
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North And South Runaway Slaves
795 wordsIn the 1850 s and 60 s the North and South were becoming more hostile towards each other due to changing views and small incidents of dislike toward the others views. One of those incidents was John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. John Browns goal was to steal enough weapons from the national armory and gather enough men so they could march into Kansas and force them to be a colony or state for runaway slaves. The Raid occurred in October of 1859. It was a complete failure in most ways. ...
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League Of Nations Whaling Commission
1,313 wordsThe Resumption of Whaling by Norway The following paper is about the resumption of whaling by Norway with a focus on the American attitude towards whaling in general. Whaling is a very sensitive issue for many people, including myself. There are many people who feel that whales are highly intelligent mammals, akin to humanity in many ways. They cite the fact that whales mate for life, the size of the average whales brain, and the proof that whales communicate with one another; all of these trait...
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Jeanne Marguerite Lecadre Terrace At Sainte Adresse Painting
642 wordsOn a Sunday morning I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I saw many amazing, interesting and beautiful paintings and sculptures. As I was walking around, I spotted a painting by Claude Oscar Monet. This painting was called Terrace at Sainte-Adresse, which is also known as the Garden at Sainte-Adresse. Since I was so interested in this painting scenery, I approached someone who worked there and asked questions about it. Claude Monet was the best-known painter of the French Impressionist Era....
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Blue Riband X Blue Riband Ship
436 wordsThe Sinking of the Lusitania In the early part of the twentieth century there was one and only main way to travel through the Atlantic Ocean. The Lusitania was built to challenge some german vessels that had the |blue riband X. At this time the passengers of these vessels were not only looking for fast means of travels but stylish means of traveling. They were looking for luxury, from the food to the sleeping accomodations. The Lusitania weighed 31, 550 tons and was 785 feet long. In only its se...
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Modern American Poetry Poetry Quot
506 wordsWe Syllabi We invite people to submit course syllabi based on Anthology of Modern American Poetry disk to Cary Nelson or by e-mail (to) for us to place on line. We are especially interested in courses that use both Anthology of Modern American Poetry and the web site. Courses may range from broad surveys to concentrated treatments of specific modern American poetry topics. They may focus on all or part of the century. Since each course will have its own link, you may include not only a syllabus ...
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U S Military Atlantic Ocean
611 wordsProject Project Mercury Project Mercury Project Mercury, the first manned U. S. space project, became an official NASA program on October 7, 1958. The Mercury Program was given two main but broad objectives: 1. to investigate man? s ability to survive and perform in the space environment and 2. to develop basic space technology and hardware for manned space flight programs to come. NASA also had to find astronauts to fly the spacecraft. In 1959 NASA asked the U. S. military for a list of their m...
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Islams Black Slaves Ronald Segal Great
963 wordsIn the service of the Sultan Islams Black Slaves: A History of Africa's Other Black Diaspora Ronald Segal 241 pp, Atlantic Books At a time when the United States, crusading Christianity's last outpost, is again mounting its mangy charger, along comes another book documenting a dark, half-forgotten and deeply unsavoury aspect of Islam. Until Ronald Segal, author of the excellent and similarly panoramic survey of the Atlantic slave trade, The Black Diaspora, began to pick at the scars Arab raiders...
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