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- 681: The First Atomic Test
- ... Site remains closed to the public except for these two days, because it lies within the impact areas for missiles fired into the northern part of the test Range. In 1965, Range officials erected a modest monument at Ground Zero. Built of black lava rock, this monument serves as a permanent marker for the site and as a reminder of the momentous event that occurred there. On the monument is a ...
- 682: The Roaring Twenties: A Time of Great Advancement and Excitement
- ... Armstrong or the amazing Coleman Hawkins. Lastly, Fats Waller was another swing era favorite who sang hilarious parodies of popular songs while playing stride piano. The dress of this era became more extravagant. The once-modest maidens now proclaimed their new freedom as “flappers” in bobbed tresses and dresses. Young women appeared at these dinner-dancing lounges with hemlines elevated, stockings rolled, breasts taped flat, cheeks rouged, and lips a “crimson ...
- 683: Events of The Civil War
- ... Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Grant had decided that the only way to win and finish the war would be to crunch with numbers. He knew that the Federal forces held more than a modest advantage in terms of men and supplies. This in mind, Grant directed Sherman to turn around now and start heading back toward Virginia. He immediately started making preparations to provide assistance to Sherman on the ...
- 684: Causes of the Great Depression
- ... of $2 a bushel for wheat, but by 1920 wheat prices had fallen to as low as 67 cents a bushel(end note 29). Farmers fell into debt; farm prices and food prices tumbled. Although modest attempts to help farmers were made in 1923 with the Agricultural Credits Act, farmers were generally left out in the cold by the government. The problem with such heavy concentrations of wealth and such massive ...
- 685: The Anti-Vietnam Movement
- ... of 1967 was the March on the Pentagon in October, which was turning point for the Johnson administration. With public support for Johnson's conduct of the war fading, the president fought back by overselling modest gains that his military commanders claimed to be making. This overselling of the war's progress played a major role in creating the domestic crisis produced by the Tet Offensive in early 1968, sparked from ...
- 686: Immigrants In 17th Century United States
- ... Germanic colonizers of America’s heartland also formed religious communities, none more distinctive or durable than the Amish settlements of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. Many of the Germanic new comers, unlike the Irish, possessed a modest amount of material goods. Most of them pushed out to the lush lands of the Middle West notably Wisconsin, where they settled and established model farms. Germany’s loss was America’s gain. The hand ...
- 687: The Indians of The Pacific Northwest
- ... the aspects that the settlers spent much time on trying to change of the Indians was their religion. Influenced by missionaries, Seattle decided to convert to Christianity and was later baptized in 1838 by Father Modest Demers, at which time Seattle adopted the Christian name "Noah". One of the major differences I noticed while researching information about Chief Seattle is that in Catholicism there is one book, I'm sure that ...
- 688: United States and Imperialism
- ... a price of $40 million. The U.S. government negotiated with the Colombian government to obtain a strip of land six miles wide across the isthmus, but the Colombian Senate refused the U.S.'s proposal. In 1903, however, Panama revolted from Colombia. Again thinking of its own interests, the United States took advantage of the chaos in Central America; that same year the U.S. and the new state of ...
- 689: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement
- ... of 1967 was the March on the Pentagon in October, which was turning point for the Johnson administration. With public support for Johnson's conduct of the war fading, the president fought back by overselling modest gains that his military commanders claimed to be making. This overselling of the war's progress played a major role in creating the domestic crisis produced by the Tet Offensive in early 1968, sparked from ...
- 690: Civil War
- ... Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Grant had decided that the only way to win and finish the war would be to crunch with numbers. He knew that the Federal forces held more than a modest advantage in terms of men and supplies. This in mind, Grant directed Sherman to turn around now and start heading back toward Virginia. He immediately started making preparations to provide assistance to Sherman on the ...
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