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Gulf Of Mexico Gulf Coast
1,634 wordsBefore a territory can be settled, it has to be explored. Through an exquisite quest, amongst adventure and hardships, Sir Rene Robert Cavalier de La Salle set out to explore the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. In the winter of 1681 - 1682, the French explorer Rene Robert Cavalier, Sir de la Salle, led an expedition from Canada down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle reached the river's outlet to the gulf, where he set up a cross and a wooden post carved with the coat of ar...
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England And France Atlantic Ocean
1,417 wordsI will explore the history of the first pirates, giving background needed to understand piracy in early Europe. I will take you on a journey through the life of Pirates and Privateers in early Europe. I will look at how the roles of Pirates and Privateers have changed over time and how opposing governments used them to help fight their wars. I will also look at the changes in the technology used by Pirates and Privateers. Recordings dating as far back as 4, 000 years tell of the threat of pirate...
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Alter Ego Stephen King
1,032 wordsStephen King is one of the most successful authors of the twentieth-century. He brings nightmares to life in a way that no other writer has succeeded to do, and is now among the most prestigious horror writers of the time. King is indeed a genius at work; however, to fully understand the legacy of Stephen King, one must understand the background from which he came and the manner in which he handled it. Due to the desertion of his father and his lack of self-esteem, Stephen decided early in his c...
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Side Of The World Prince Henry
1,186 wordsThe Portuguese were the first to discover the East Coast of Australia In Australian history books, it has been thought for hundreds of years that Captain Cook from England was the first to discover the east coast of Australia on 28 th April 1770. However latest evidence shows that this historic event is inaccurate. A number of relics and remains have been found which indicate the Portuguese arrival at Australia in the early to mid 1500 s, 200 years before Cook. These clues include the Mahogany S...
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Analysis Of The Artillery Used In Vietnam War
424 wordsThe Vietnam War was a war for independence in Vietnam, the north lead by Ho Chi Minh, the south led by Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1954 an international conference decided that Vietnam must be divided into two north and south. At the beginning America was not involved in the war between north and south Vietnam, it wasnt until 1961 when a U. S. boat was attacked in the gulf of Tonkin. The President ordered the military to attack back to prevent further aggression. History: Artillery is a term used to descr...
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The Cannon In Late Medieval Europe
800 wordsWarfare in Late-Medieval Europe went through some drastic changes with the introduction of gunpowder from China. The first military uses of gunpowder in Europe were in the form of hand-bombs, rockets, the mine, and petard. These devices augmented the traditional offensive and defensive siege tactics of the time. However, the device that became the most useful, and widely used, was the cannon. Invented by Europeans in the 14 th Century, the cannons rise to prominence was an evolutionary one, born...
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Guarneri Del Gesu Del Gesu Paganini's
1,174 wordsThis benefit concert marks only the second time in history that the legendary violin, made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (pronounced "Gesu") (1705? - 1744) in 1743, which belonged to Nicole Paganini (October 27, 1782 - May 27, 1840) will be played in a full recital on the American continent. Eugene Fodor will perform. The first time it was heard in the U. S. was in 1982, in New York, as part of Paganini's bicentennial celebration, when his 24 Caprices for unaccompanied violin were played on it. Pa...
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1,199 wordsMEMORANDUM TO: J. Willard McGillivary FROM: Richard Holt DATE: June 10, 2005 SUBJECT: Photocopy Machines Summary In the past couple of months, there has been a serious problem in our company. The photocopier, which we currently own: Canon Model 4967, has been malfunctioning, bringing the entire working process in our company to a halt. This problem has a very simple solution: purchasing new, more economical machines, which will be more efficiently used by the staff in order to bring larger reven...
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Plot And Symbolism Humphrey Bogart Casablanca
434 wordsIn choosing the movie Casablanca, I looked forward to re-aquatinting myself with a wonderful old classic Noir film. I wanted to know more about this film for a better understanding of the plot and symbolism, as well as the powerful mystique behind the film that has made Casablanca so enduring. Casablanca (1942), a review by Damian Cannon, movie review UK 1998, provided the following information: Amidst the Second World War the African City of Casablanca becomes the backdrop for Rick s Caf (where...
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Russo Japanese War Gatling Gun
1,242 wordsa minute to approximately three and hurt his ability to defend himself while he loaded the awkward device. The shortcomings associated with these muzzleloader's were, in a large part, responsible for the style of battlefield tactics of the day. Smokeless gunpowder was the next major advancement to affect gun development. Smokeless gunpowder led to the development of cartridge bullets. These bullets enabled the lead shot to be pre-packaged with the gunpowder and dramatically shortened the time in...
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Civil War Long Range
657 wordsThe artillery crews of both armies of the Civil War worked with the first guns that would eventually come to be the long-range killing machines that are used by the modern armies of today. The Civil War saw the beginnings of rifled barrels and breech loading artillery, with limited service however these new concepts were not fully developed and perfected until the years after the war. On the battlefields of the Civil War the smoothbore guns reigned supreme. There were three types of field ordina...
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Trench Warfare Gatling Gun
339 wordsCivil war inventions New inventions during the Civil war lead to the development of new weaponry. Some of the new inventions include the Gatling gun, new bullets, Breech loading cannon, ironclad ships, Dahlgren gun, and trench warfare. The Gatling gun invented by Dr. Richard Gatling was a multi-barreled cannon which allowed troops to shoot multiple rounds rapidly without reloading and served as the predecessor to the machine gun. Prior to the war, it was discovered that by giving the bullet spin...
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World War Ii End Of World War
1,119 wordsFinal Paper While looking for two designs to examine for this final paper, I came upon the New York Worlds Fair Poster designed by Joseph Binder and a poster entitled Victory 1945 by Shigeo Fukuda. In looking at both of these designs and comparing and contrasting them, I wish to show just how significantly large scale cultural issues can effect the collective conscious of a society and the resulting every day designs and images that they are subjected to. Although not much information exists sep...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Fidel Castro
3,503 wordsCuba: The Plight of a Nation and its Revolution While the isle of Cuba was initially discovered on October 27, 1492 during one of Columbus? first voyages, it wasn? t actually claimed by Spain until the sixteenth century. However, it? s tumultuous beginnings as a Spanish sugar colony provides an insightful backdrop into the very essence of the country? s political and economic unrest. From it? s early revolutionary days to the insurrection challenge of the Marxist-Leninist theories emerged the to...
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Alter Ego Stephen King
2,087 wordsStephen Stephen King Stephen King Stephen King is one of the most successful authors of the twentieth-century. He brings nightmares to life in a way that no other writer has succeeded to do, and is now among the most prestigious horror writers of the time. King is indeed a genius at work; however, to fully understand the legacy of Stephen King, one must understand the background from which he came and the manner in which he handled it. Due to the desertion of his father and his lack of self-este...
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16 Th Century 15 Th Century
1,153 wordsWrought-iron breechloaders Gun military technology Wrought-iron breechloader's Partly because of the difficulties of making a long, continuous barrel, and partly because of the relative ease of loading a powder charge into a short breechblock, gunsmiths soon learned to make cannon in which the barrel and powder chamber were separate. Since the charge and projectile were loaded into the rear of the barrel, these were called breechloader's. The breechblock was mated to the barrel by means of a rec...
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Commit Acts Littleton Colorado
3,416 wordsIn A Time of Violence Everywhere we look we see some sort of violence, if its not ourselves committing the violence, someone around us is. It is as though it never fails, on television it is not considered a good show unless there is some sort of shoot em up seen on every show. There is not an easy solution to stopping the violence that occurs each day. Instead it will take a nation wide contribution to even begin to control violence. I hope to show how violence is caused, who commits violence, ...
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Hampton Roads W W
2,139 wordsThe Battle of Hampton Roads changed the course of naval history. This battle marked the first time that two ironclad warships engaged in ship to ship combat. However the USS Monitor and Popov and the Novgorod. These circular monitors were impossible to control and just drifted around (Greene 351 - 356). The civil wars in South America also saw widespread use of ironclad warships, especially in Chile and Brazil. The revolutionaries of Peru purchased unfinished Confederate ironclads from England a...
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16 Th Century 15 Th Century
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Success And Failure Enemy Ships
436 wordsSuccesses &# 038; Failures Of Lieutenant Hornblower From Successes &# 038; Failures Of Lieutenant Hornblower From C S Fores C. S. Foresters Lieutenant Hornblower 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 landing attack on Sam...
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