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The Battle Of Midway
Words: 1527 / Pages: 6 .... in diameter and consists of Sand and Eastern islands surrounded by a coral reef enclosing a shallow lagoon. Midway was discovered in 1859 and annexed by the United States in August 1867. Between 1903 and 1940, it served both as a cable station on the Honolulu-Guam-Manila underwater telegraph line and as an airport for Pan American Airways China Clipper. In March 1940, after a report on U.S. Navy Pacific Bases declared Midway second only to Pearl Harbor in importance, construction of a formal naval air station began.
Midway naval Air Station was placed in commission in August 1941. By that time Midway's facilities included a large sea plane hang .....
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History Of The Guitar
Words: 2133 / Pages: 8 .... is attached directly to a sound chamber. Within the Lute family came two groups. The lutes proper which had rounded backs and the guitar type instruments with their flat backs.
Guitar-shaped instruments appear in stone bas-relief sculptures of the hittites in northern Syria and Asia Minor from as far back as 1350 B.C.
The word guitar also has origins in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. The earliest European guitars did have four courses of gut strings. A
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course is a pair of strings tuned in unison. These early guitars were distinguished from lutes .....
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Renaissance Art 2
Words: 947 / Pages: 4 .... religious ideas because the paintings became more transparent and more vivid in detail. Lastly, artists in the high Renaissance such as Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Titian, and Raphael developed paintings in the narrative style that demonstrated the “body in a more scientific and natural manner,” thus demonstrating the various aspects of every day life. Moreover, with the combinations of the two beneficiary notions, individualism and humanism, craftsmen were expected by society to be proficient in more than one profession such as literature, sculpture, architecture, and particularly art.
One of the first major ideas that the Renaissance .....
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The South's Finest Hour: The Battle Of Chancellorsville
Words: 339 / Pages: 2 .... waited for
he plan to develop more fully. Hooker's cavalry moved and was reported to
Lee. He decided it was time to react. Lee had two choices. One, he could
turn tail in retreat toward Richmond or face the threat behind him. Here,
Lee made one of the boldest, most brilliant moves of the war.
Lee completely split up his army. He left only 10,000 Confederates
to defend against the 40,000 Union troops at Fredericksburg. Nevertheless,
on April 30, the main body of Lee's forces marched toward Chancellorsville
numbered 50,000 against 70,000. On May 1st, the Yankees were marching
toward Fredericksburg, while the rebels were marching towar .....
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The War Between The States
Words: 3671 / Pages: 14 .... in 1824, Charles Edmiston and his twin sister, Ellen Ann,
were the third son and second daughter, respectively, of newspaper editor
Joseph Whilden and his wife, Elizabeth Gilbert Whilden. The births of two
more sons, Richard Furman in 1826 and William Gilbert in 1828, would
complete the family, making seven children in all. Young Charles' roots
ran deep into the soil of the lowcountry. His Whilden ancestors had
settled in the Charleston area in the 1690's, and an ancestor on his
mother's side, the Rev. William Screven, had arrived in South Carolina
even earlier, establishing the First Baptist Church of Charleston in 1683,
today the oldest chur .....
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Statue Of Liberty
Words: 371 / Pages: 2 .... the was build to symbolize a great idea and country. At that time in history people were flocking to America because they were either being persecuted in their home countries or they were just disappointed at the status of their lives and wanted to come to “the land of opportunity” to start a new life.
This is a great symbol of art because The is magnificent in every way, and serves its purpose to a superb level. Like I mentioned previously, “location, location, location .. “ the statue’s location was perfect back in the days of Ellis Island and is perfect now as a tourist site. Shortly after the immigrants on the boats first spo .....
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The Progressive Era
Words: 995 / Pages: 4 .... corruption and inability, in other words a struggle for
civil services reform. The progressive movement was initiated by liberals in
both political parties, the fight for government reform can be traced back to
Liberal Republicans(An Oxymoron, Mr. Jetel?) during the Grant administration and
Mugwumps. Citizens were enraged, with big businesses' growing influence in all
branches of government and sought ways to purify it.
Big Business was also a target of progressivism. During this time
presidents like Roosevelt and William Howard Taft tried to regulate and control
big business. Many well educated people of the time, as well as moderately
prospe .....
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The Invention Of The Airplane
Words: 2077 / Pages: 8 .... when noted German engineer Otto Lilienthal began experimenting with hang gliders. Lilienthal took seriously the ideas advocated by Sir George Cayley almost a hundred years earlier. Through an extensive study of birds and bird flight, Cayley realized that the lift function and the thrust function of bird wings were separate and distinct, and could be imitated by different systems on a fixed-wing craft. Lilienthal began his work on heavier-than-air craft not by developing a complete airplane, but instead by focusing his efforts on a fixed-wing glider.
Lilienthal brought a much-needed respectability to the enterprise of inventing an airplane. Up to that .....
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The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time For The US
Words: 5055 / Pages: 19 .... Union as a free
state(Maine). This made the Missouri Compromise possible. The Missouri
compromise said that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be
admitted as a free state, it also said that any state in the Louisiana
Purchase north of Missouri's southern border would be a free state. This
action delayed a deadly confrontation between the North and the South, at
least for awhile.
Then in 1828 congress raised the tariff on imported goods. In the
south they didn't have very much industry so they had to import most of
their good, so the tariffs were unpopular their. One state that protested
this action by congress. Since the North .....
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United States Enter War!
Words: 356 / Pages: 2 .... The way to do this, in their believing, is by resuming a policy of unrestricted submarine welfare. As a result, on February 1, 1917, it will sink any merchant ships heading to British. President Wilson has responded to this by breaking off diplomatic relationship with Germany. Things have gotten even worse, the tension is what has grown the most between these two countries. This is due to a recent cartoon that was included when the American newspaper published the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann. The British had gotten the note and passed it on here, to the Americans. This telegram included Zimmermann proposing a deal with Mexico. It was u .....
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