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Ground War In The Persian Gulf
Words: 450 / Pages: 2 .... with Baghdad.
In an effort to draw Israel into the war and destroy the coalition, the Iraqis launched their improved version of the Soviet Scud missile against Israeli targets. In response to American urging, Israel stayed out of the fighting and accepted U.S.-manned Patriot antimissile batteries. The Patriot intercepted or partially destroyed many of the approximately 85 missiles that Iraq fired against Saudi Arabia and Israel.
President Bush's decision to terminate the ground war at midnight February 28 was criticized for allowing Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress the postwar reb .....
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Gothic Art
Words: 367 / Pages: 2 .... the traditional Romanesque plainsong. Romanesque
architecture became old-fashioned, but its heavy forms pleased the
Cistercian monks and, likewise, other conservative patrons in Germany,
Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Thus, buildings that were
essentially Romanesque in spirit continued to be built, even when such
extraordinary Gothic works as the Amiens cathedral were under
construction (begun 1220). (see also Index: Gothic architecture, music,
history of)
The development of proto-Romanesque in the Ottonian period culminated in
the true Romanesque style represented by five magnificent churches on
the inter .....
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The Disadvantages Of The South During The Civil War
Words: 1074 / Pages: 4 .... yourselves the aggressors.
The North’s population was at 22 million while the South had only 5.5 million free men. The North had an overwhelming advantage of numbers, which increased as new immigrants came to the North. This made the numbers of the Union Army much higher than the numbers of the Confederate Army.
The South’s economy was more agricultural, based around the institution of slavery. The North’s economy was more industrial. The North could supply their army with clothes, food, and firearms much easier than the South could. The North had more industries and supplies. The Union had approximately 1,300,000 industrial workers c .....
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The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
Words: 826 / Pages: 4 .... a waiting horse outside. He was chased by the calvary and was found in
a barn. He was captured by setting the barn on fire and flushing him out.
2. “Assassination Of Lincoln” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.
Computer software. Buffalo, New York: Encarta 97 Encyclopedia, 1993-1996.
CD-ROM.
This article is a summary of the events leading up to, the
assassination, and the events after Abraham Lincoln's death. He was killed
April 15, 1865. His assassin was a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln was planing to attend a play at Ford's Theatre that night. Booth
shot him that night.
Booth shot Lincoln with a small pistol know .....
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Women In Art
Words: 471 / Pages: 2 .... as art or not and why? He starts the essay out by telling a story from when he was eleven. It was pretty much his first experience looking at girl in a sexual way. Then he tells a story about how when he was in college his roommate had playmates plastered all over his walls. Sanders asks questions referring to his experiences like why do these women feel it necessary to pose nude for other people? And why do women buy expensive lingerie?
As we look at the past and the present, the questions that Sanders asks can be answered in many different ways. One possibility that women like to show their naked bodies to others goes way back in history and we see .....
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Analyze The Triumph And Tragedy Of The Manhattan Project
Words: 1193 / Pages: 5 .... to four times the hottest temperature of the
sun. The huge mushroom-shaped radioactive cloud climbed 42,000 feet in to
the New Mexico sky. At ground zero it vaporized the steel and concrete
tower that had held the bomb and created a crater 1,200 feet across. The
triumph of scientific creativity and genius entered us into the new Nuclear
Age.
President Roosevelt died of a stroke before he see the success of
the Trinity (the code name for the test of the first atomic bomb) in July
1945. Vice President Harry S Truman became the thirty-third president of
the United States. At the time, Truman didn't know anything on the
Manhattan Project, b .....
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The New Immigration
Words: 536 / Pages: 2 .... day. On some days
between 1905 and 1914 it had to process more than 10,000 immigrants a day.
Many arrivals had left their homelands to escape mobs who attacked
them because of their ethnicity, religion, or politics. The German,
Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman (Turkish) empires ruled over many
different peoples and nationalities and often cruelly mistreated them.
Until 1899, U.S. immigration officials asked arrivals which nation
they had left, not their religion or ancestry. So oppressed people were
listed under the countries from which they fled. Armenians who escaped
from Turkey were recorded as Turks, and Jews who had bee .....
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The Ku Klux Klan
Words: 1157 / Pages: 5 .... country. The
men decided to make a club to help release the stress of the times. The men
were all poor and could not afford to make gowns or great costumes for the
group, so they decided to use linens. They wore the linens over their backs
and put pillowcases on their heads. They also draped the linens over their
horses. The Ku Klux Klan was going to ride for the first time. In the
beginning, the men wanted to do nothing more than play pranks on people.
However, the people were more frightened than they were cheered up. They
soon realized what they could do with these fear tactics. The South had
turned into a place that was no longer theirs. The .....
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The 1920's
Words: 1236 / Pages: 5 .... went on trial, were convicted, and spent seven years in prison while appeals went on, and while people all over the country became involved in their case. The pair had been ably defended by a Massachusetts lawyer named Thompson. He had argued to the trial judge that these men were being sentenced to death because they were anarchists and foreigners. Actually, there was evidence presented that Vanzetti was insane at the time of the crime. Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti, 255 Mass. 369, 151 N.E. 839 (1926). However, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that the Superior Court had no jurisdiction to grant a new trial because the motion was .....
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Emerging Trends - Body Wearable Computers
Words: 3548 / Pages: 13 .... is as re-configurable as the family desktop or corporate mainframe computer. This is what sets the wearable computer apart from other wearable devices such as wristwatches, regular eyeglasses, and wearable radios.
The best definitions probably given to date are those of Steve Mann. Steve Mann is a self-appointed, and none opposed leader in the body wearable computer field. To avoid confusion and changing the meanings of Steve’s definitions I included them in their entirety from Steve Mann’s Keynote Address, 1998.
“Constancy, the computer runs continuously, and is “always ready” to interact with the user. Unlike a .....
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