Obidiah
.... with the Moabites and Ammonites, raided Judah during Jehoshaphat・s reign (2 Chr 20:1-2). For these actions, as well as others Edom finds itself at the words of Obadiah as he prophesies their judgement.
Although Obadiah is not related to as a :prophet; of God (Obad 1:1) his purpose is clearly established as God・s mouth piece against Edom, and later confirmed by his contemporary, Jeremiah (Jer 49:7-22). Obadiah・s name means .servant/worshipper of Yahweh・. Thus giving him the known title many .....
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Assination Of Jfk 2
.... they fired their five to six shots very accurately. The fatal head wound shown the presidents head to have moved back and to left indicating that the shot came from the front. Oswald was behind the president and could not have inflicted that wound. Moments prior to the shooting Oswald was on the second floor of the building drinking a Coke. When he was confronted in the building after the shooting he was said to have been calm and collective. You would think after someone had committed the murder of t .....
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Assyrian Crisis
.... that Assyria has already created, and their hunger for more, in addition to the messenger’s statement that the Lord has commanded Assyria to go and destroy Jerusalem, my feelings of fear and doubt would uncontrollably well up inside me. We are, after all, only human, and fear is a common feeling, despite where we stand with God. No man lives without fear, but though fear our faith is tested and strengthened.
Upon hearing and experiencing the truth of Isaiah’s claim that God will spa .....
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Atom Bomb
.... participation in the war against Japan.” Nobody had wanted the Soviet Union to join the war because it was almost over, but the Russians were desperate to invade Japan.
The first atomic bomb was dropped in August 6, 1945 and the second one was dropped in August 9, 1945. The Soviet Union had declared war against Japan in August 8, 1945 as a desperate act to spread communism. Because they had entered the war before the second bomb was dropped, they had invaded the northern area of islands ca .....
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Atomic Bomb 2
.... in theory and then he knew to start the project.
In October of 1942 Groves went to California to meet with Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most brilliant scientists in the country. Groves informed Oppenheimer that he had been selected to lead the expedition on trying to invent the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer immediately started preparing by telling Groves that they needed an isolated area with one ringmaster(Oppenheimer).
General Groves was in charge of the military or security part of the proje .....
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Atomic Bomb 3
.... is non-fissionable. Finding a process to refining the Uranium was the first step in developing the atomic bomb.
A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was built in Oak ridge, Tennessee. H.C. Urey and other associates at Columbia University devised a system that separated the Uranium using the principle of gaseous diffusion. Ernest Lawrence shortly following this invention came up with a process using magnetic separation. This process was quicker then the first. After the Uranium metal was separated f .....
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Atomic Bomb 4
.... looked his countryman in the face". (Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War)
Another reason and the biggest reason that a good idea to bomb Hiroshima is that it stop the World War II. We did not want to be in World War II or in any war at all. The quote form Truman was " Let there be no mistake: we shall destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us". (Harry Truman President) If we had not bombed the Japanese, we would have used up our resources fight in the war. .....
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Atomic Bomb 5
.... of the B-29, a bomber plane specifically designed for dropping Atomic Bombs. The estimated cost of this project is $3 billion dollars, bringing the total cost of the new atomic weapon to $5 billion dollars (approx. $50 billion 1998 dollars). If the Atomic Bomb failed, not only would many people lose their jobs, but the outcome of the war might have changed. For this reason, the Manhattan Project employed many of the top scientific minds of the world.
Unbeknownst to the Allies, the Germans d .....
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Atomic Bomb 6
.... the exception of the unreliable Russians (evidenced by their retraction from WWI), the US would have to commit fully to this action without the support of any of their allies. This commitment would not only be irreversible, but also prove to be costly, as it was estimated that a full-scale invasion would cost some 500,00 American lives and millions of dollars. It was further noted, based on experience in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, that in an amphibious assault of the Japanese coast, would result on the death .....
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Atomic Bomb 7
.... bomb the lives of millions of innocent people would be put at risk.
After the incident in Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt died and Harry S. Truman became next President. Truman who was the Vice President during the Roosevelt years knew nothing about this new weapon. President Roosevelt and Albert Einstein kept the atomic bomb makings a secret for more than ten years. One of the reasons why President Roosevelt kept the atomic bomb making a secret was because he was afraid a leak might hint other count .....
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Atomic Bomb In World War 2
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energy as intense heat followed by a supersonic shock wave that is felt
as a highly destructive high pressure air blast, which can easily demolish
tall buildings, not to mention people. After the initial blast radiation
covers the area, causing people, animals, and structures to practically disintegrate. Even years afterwards people were still dying and having
health problems related to the radiation they were exposed to long before.
There were many people that were strongly oppos .....
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Atomic Bombing 2
.... diplomatic pressures and concerns.
Truman's monumental decision to drop these bombs was born out of the complex background of the Japanese army. This background was that the Japanese always fought to the death and that they had citizens prepared to fight. Pressure to drop the bomb stemmed from three major categories: military, domestic and diplomatic.
The military pressures stemmed from discussions and meetings Truman had with Secretary of War Stimson, Army Chief of Staff General Marshal, Chief of .....
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Attica
.... an all white correctional staff and eighty-five percent of Attica’s prisoners were Black and Latino.
Working conditions in Attica State Prison were unbearable, prisoners were political, poor and maltreated. Hygienic conditions were very bad and medical care was practically non-existent. Prisoners average pay was 40 cents a day for manufacturing mattresses, shoes and license plates, prisoners never saw a lawyer, were prevented from defending themselves, were isolated, raped, harassed and murd .....
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Attribution
.... them to come out, the U.S. Army Field Manual states “Generally persons reacting to CS(type of gas used) are incapable of executing organized and concerted actions, excessive exposure may make them incapable of vacating the area.” Also stated in the Army Field Manual “Warning, when using the dry agent CS, do not discharge indoors, accumulating dust may explode when exposed to spark or open flame. The author concludes that Waco will haunt the government until the truth comes out.
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Augusto Pinochet
.... Even the Chilean government has declined to prosecute him or even remove him from his seat in the senate. Spain is an outsider interfering in the state affairs of another country. They are acting based upon The House of Lords decision, which allowed Spain to assert universal jurisdiction to prosecute violators of the Convention Against Torture. But this Convention is only applicable to actions committed after December 1988, and since Pinochet was only in power for thirteen more months, this lea .....
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