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- 1631: Roman Mythology
- ... He was said to be the supreme god, but was later said to be second to Jupiter. In Greek mythology Poseidon was second in charge. He was asked for blessings before the beginning of the day, month, week, and year. He was said to of have two faces that faced each way to see the coming and the going which symbolized how much he knew about the present and the past ... in the lives of some. So today in its own way it plays its part, it is just how in is thought about in the eyes of society and accepted by the people of the day. The ancient Greek and ancient Roman religion was the belief in gods. They had similar beliefs, but also vast differences. They came from each other and gave their people a form of morality. It was ... He was said to be the supreme god, but was later said to be second to Jupiter. In Greek mythology Poseidon was second in charge. He was asked for blessings before the beginning of the day, month, week, and year. He was said to of have two faces that faced each way to see the coming and the going which symbolized how much he knew about the present and the ...
- 1632: Drumlin Formation By Catastrophic Flooding
- ... and problems identified in this article could help to point out areas where further research will lead to a better understanding of the conditions in which drumlins were formed. References Brennand, T.A., J. Shaw, & D.R. Sharpe. 1996. Regional-scale meltwater erosion and depositional patterns, northern Quebec, Canada. Annals of Geography 22 pp. 85-92. Cox, D.E. 1979. Drumlins and diluvial currents. Creation Research Society Quarterly 16(3), pp 154-162. Hall, Sir James. 1812. On the revolutions of the earth's surface. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 7:139-212. Hunt, C. Warren. 1990. Environment of Violence. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 117-119. Quoted from Charles Ginenthal's The Flood. Kor, P.S.G., J. Shaw & D.R. Sharpe. 1991. Erosion of bedrock by subglacial meltwater, Georgian Bay, Ontario: a regional view. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 28, 623-642. Munro, M. & Shaw, J. 1997. Erosional origin of hummocky terrain in ...
- 1633: Impact of the Spanish American War
- ... the north shore, on the edge of a coconut grove at Annotto bay, Sabio led Rowan to a fishing boat rigged with sail and manned by two members of the junta. At noon the next day the Sierra Maestra range in Cuba looked like a low, Faint- blue fence, and two hours later it resembled a forbidden green wall. It was beautiful. Its battlements, eight thousand feet high, stretched to the ... the beach. When it touched bottom Sabio and Rowan waded ashore and disappeared into the jungle. Rowan knew that his life was in the hands of Sabio, a man he had known for only a day and a half. In the morning they walked westward through the dank forest, just out of sight of the shore. It was the hardest walking Andrew Rowan had ever done. Every type of insect attached ... they leaped for the jungle and lay down. There seemed to be no air. Rowan was wringing wet with perspiration, and clouds of mosquitoes and bugs, kinds he had never seen, feasted on him. At day break on the eight day of their jungle trek they heard firing. The question was: Was it a friend or foe? Sabio hid the American lieutenant and walked down the trail. When he returned ...
- 1634: Making Decisions
- Making Decisions It is said that a person can make over a thousand decisions a day. Many day-to-day decisions can be from what to wear to what to eat for dinner. Not all decisions can be made easily; many decisions take time and planning. There are a few decisions someone must make ...
- 1635: Martin Luther King
- ... one of the most influential leaders of our time. Integrity is a central value in a leader s character and it is through integrity that King had vision of the truth. The truth that one day this nation would live up to the creed, all men are created equal . No man contributed more to the great progress of blacks during the 1950 s and 1960 s than Martin Luther King, Jr ... fairness is one value that allowed King s followers to have so much respect for him, for some, he was more than a man, The young people just envisioned a new hope and a new day, and the old folks saw in him a black Jesus. They used to love to call him My Boy or My Son . They worshipped him . King s followers felt this way about him because they ... people - and the disquieting conscience of the whites . King s fight for justice was perhaps the most significant values that made him one of the most influential leaders of all time. He believed that one day justice will prevail for blacks as is seen in most famous speech of all time, the speech, I Have a Dream : I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a ...
- 1636: Czechoslovakia
- ... nice fossils of trilobytes in the Czech Republic today. Today's Czech Republic was later populated by dinosaurs of all sorts, and later by neanderthals and even by mammoths. The prehistoric settlement of the present-day Czech Republic by people culminated in the fourth century B.C. with the arrival of the Celts, the first modern human inhabitants of this territory that we know of. In fact, the Latin name for ... the Migration of Peoples - roughly from the 3d to the 7th centuries AD - Slav colonization spread westward from the Steppes of the East (probably from Panonia) all the way to the territory of the present-day Czech Republic and up to Poland and down again to Yugoslavia. From probably the sixth century AD on, the Slavic peoples settled, in several waves of migration, into the regions which had been conveniently abandoned by the Germanic tribes. This is the way that it all came to be - according to popular Czech legend: Once upon a time there were three brothers: Czech, Lech and Rus. One day, they decided to find a new place to live, and so they and their tribes set out on a journey. They got as far as the Dnieper River when Rus said, "This is the ...
- 1637: Photoperiodism
- Photoperiodism Plants and animals in the temperate zones respond in different ways to the amount of daylight in 24-hour periods. This response to day length is called photo periodism. It controls many activities, among them is the flowering of plants. The ability to respond to day length is linked to an inner, light-sensitive circadian rhythm. In the temperate zones, day lengths during the natural 24-hour cycle vary with the seasons. In winter and spring, the period of light lengthens; in summer and autumn, it shortens. Plants in these zones undergo alternate 12-hour ...
- 1638: Things Aren't Always What They Seem
- ... from Angle's, but also from Hispanics. People tend to open up in front of me, because some of them think I am Anglo- Saxon and do not know Spanish. I can recall the first day of summer school, my first day of work, and the time that Anglos' stare at my girlfriend wondering why I left their race for a hispanic girl. My first day of summer school was a day I will never forget. As I walked into my class the students just looked up at me and stared as if I was a portrait. In a polite ...
- 1639: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... page ( http://www.drudgereport.com) is austere; it consists of a headline, links to news sources and some black and white clip art. Apparently he is really quite well informed, he reads 18 newspapers a day and he admires politics enough to go after both sides of the story when the time comes. Drudge's contact list has been expanding far quicker than his bank account he now has a huge ... often this week – There are so very many people who believe in you and what you are trying to do for our country – Take heart in knowing that your number one fan thanks you every day for your help in saving her wonderful state. With appreciation Kathleen yet cannot write "f****ing" in complete letters in the transcripts of the Monica Lewinski-Linda Tripp tapes: Lewinsky: Well, it doesn't have ... made in the Nixon White House threw yet another shadow over his complex presidential legacy. And today in 1998, we have a full blown "modern scandal" of our own. But a fundamental change separates modern-day presidential scandals from those in the past: publicity. Except for Cleveland's paternity case and recent allegations against Bill Clinton, presidential love scandals have "always come out after the fact," says James W. Davis, ...
- 1640: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... page ( http://www.drudgereport.com) is austere; it consists of a headline, links to news sources and some black and white clip art. Apparently he is really quite well informed, he reads 18 newspapers a day and he admires politics enough to go after both sides of the story when the time comes. Drudge's contact list has been expanding far quicker than his bank account he now has a huge ... often this week – There are so very many people who believe in you and what you are trying to do for our country – Take heart in knowing that your number one fan thanks you every day for your help in saving her wonderful state. With appreciation Kathleen yet cannot write "f****ing" in complete letters in the transcripts of the Monica Lewinski-Linda Tripp tapes: Lewinsky: Well, it doesn't have ... made in the Nixon White House threw yet another shadow over his complex presidential legacy. And today in 1998, we have a full blown "modern scandal" of our own. But a fundamental change separates modern-day presidential scandals from those in the past: publicity. Except for Cleveland's paternity case and recent allegations against Bill Clinton, presidential love scandals have "always come out after the fact," says James W. Davis, ...
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