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- 6521: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... reclamation projects and started the first fifty-one bird reservations and first four national game preserves . Roosevelt was very into preserving and conserving national wildlife and resources. In 1905 Roosevelt helped end the Russo-Japanese War. He created peace talks which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. Theodore Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping with the friction of Japan. He was the first American to win ...
- 6522: The Good Times of Clark Gable
- ... In 1942, his wife died in a place crash and Gable was deeply affected. Soon afterward, he enlisted in the United States Air Corps, serving as a major and flying numerous bombing missions during World War II (1939-1945). He returned to Hollywood in 1945, having been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. After that run in, Gable once again resumed his acting career. However, few of his pictures ...
- 6523: Alexander the Great
- ... after battle with gold, food, or other riches. He lost many men in battle, but he never lost their morale. The first battle that Alexander faced at the start of his career was one of civil action. The people in Thebes had heard little of their new ruler, Alexander, and were worried there was no one to lead them. In response, they revolted. Alexander immediately responded and crushed the rebellion in ...
- 6524: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... the people who comprise of the different religious groups. Another example is again the feuding families. On the final day of Hucks stay with the Grangerfords, the two families break out into a bloody war over a marriage that has taken place. Huck retreats to the safety of a nearby tree and witnesses the horrific bloodshed. He is so shocked by the place of events that he comments, It made ...
- 6525: Pablo Picasso
- ... rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations. During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography. The l950's saw the beginning of a number of ...
- 6526: F117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter
- ... 1,271 sorties, had an 80% million success rate, and they also suffered no losses or battle damage. The Nighthawks were also the first aircraft to strike Baghdad in the opening minutes of the air war. Discussion The Nighthawk is a good stealth aircraft because of its radar-energy absorbent abilities. This aircraft was specifically made for stealth attacks. Lockheed has used good RAMs and shape technology on the Nighthawk. The ...
- 6527: Eighteenth Century Philosophers
- ... an accelerating pace with devastating results. Although, not everything in his theory was that glum. He noted that there were positive checks in population to keep it from exploding. Some of these positive checks include war, famine and plague. Unfortunately, for those who believed in his theory, by 1803 Malthus had come to the conclusion that the problem could never be solved, but that it could be kept in bounds. In ...
- 6528: Confucius Life Philosiphy
- ... gentleman, or shu. It contains guidelines for everything from state affairs to the proper way to lie in bed at night. The book also regulates how people relate to each other in what it calls civil behavior . Confucius said that ritual was important because it was what separated humans and animals, as well as the Chinese people from foreign barbarians . The book also points out that proper etiquette was important because ...
- 6529: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... Monroe, Virginia, in the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, at Old Point Comfort. Little is known about Edgar "Perry's" life during these two years but it is known that the army was not geared for war during this period. The period 1815-1846 has been called "Thirty Year's Peace". Edgar was appreciated by his superiors and by early 1828 he had become "Assistant to the A.C.S." (Assistant Commissary ...
- 6530: The Impact of Frederick Douglass
- ... three amendments the thirteenth amendment which abolished slavery, the fourteenth amendment which gives due process and the fifth-teenth amendment which gives blacks the right to vote. He wanted blacks to lead the struggle for civil rights. The year he died, he urged a black student to "Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!"(AOL: Afro American Quotes 13). As a result of Frederick Douglass events in life his house is preserved as a national ...
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