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- 4791: The Webb Story and the Efforts to Rebut It
- ... anyone else to democratize it, boosting volume, slashing prices and spreading disease on a scale never before conceived." Katz estimated that Ross’s "coast-to-coast conglomerate was selling more than 500,000 rocks a day." Other journalists, now forgotten in today’s furor over the Webb stories, have written how Ross personally created the crack scene in other cities such as Cincinnati. The unseen force that induced Katz to make ... story, Cannistraro was even more categorical: "I have personal knowledge that the CIA knew nothing about these guys [Blandón and Meneses]. These charges are completely illogical." One might have thought that, in a lengthy three-day series, the L.A. Times could have mentioned that Cannistraro had actually been in charge of the CIA Contra operation in the early 1980s (the Meneses-Blandón period), before moving on to supervise the covert ...
- 4792: Dreams
- ... likely to dial into their interior life whether awake or asleep² (Segell 42). This means that women will read into their dreams more frequently then men. Researchers have found that problems that occur during the day either at work or home and are worked through in your sleep (Segell 42). While men would most likely look at these dreams as nothing but a dream, women will try to face these problems throughout the day. Although there are many differences there are also similarities between men and women in dreams. ³Like women, you have slightly more negative than positive dreams² (Segell 42). Which in this case would show one of ...
- 4793: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... much respect. After bell moved to Canada he decided that this glove was not enough. Soon he opened schools meant specifically for the deaf people to learn and there are still some schools to this day that have been founded by Bell just for deaf people. During one of his many visits to one of his school he met a young student by the name of Mabel Hubbard I have discovered ... encyclopedia, 379) originally the sound was faint and choppy but it was soon perfected. After this was complete Bell s knowledge and fascination with sound led him to his most famous invention, the Telephone. One day when he and his assistant Watson were experimenting with the idea of sending sound vibrations through wires when a reed that Watson was working with got stuck in the machine but bell in the other ...
- 4794: The Reality Of Huckleberry Fin
- ... were two men that were frauds, they would scam people out of their money and move along to the next town as swiftly as possible. Occasionally they were, caught, which is quite realistic. "'Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth -- and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it -- but I stayed about one night longer than I ought ... you to get off. So I told you I was expecting trouble myself, and would scatter out with you.'" One example of how these men are nobody but a couple of petty thieves. "' Well, I'd ben a-running' a little temperance revival thar 'bout a week, and was the pet of the women folks, big and little, for I was makin' it mighty warm for the rummies, I tell you ...
- 4795: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... by the late 1970's, these provisions helped the FBI develop cases that, in the 1980's, put almost all the major traditional crime family heads in prison. The FBI Headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. They have nine divisions and four offices. These divisions and offices provide direction and support services to 56 field offices and approximately 10,100 Special Agents and 13,700 other employees. Each field office is overseen by a Special Agent in Charge, except for those located in New York City and Washington, D.C. Due to their large size, those offices are each managed by an Assistant Director in Charge. Either the FBI Headquarters itself or approximately 400 satellite offices, known as resident agencies, are used to conduct ...
- 4796: Frederick Douglass
- ... the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master," Douglass says. Many of the masters would have church gathering at their houses and then the next day go out and beat their slaves. He remembers one time when him and his fellow friends (which were also enslaved) were starving and there was an abundance of food in the smokehouse; his masters would ... great days of his soul. He says, "We loved each other, and to leave them at the close of the Sabbath was a severe cross indeed. When I think that these precious souls are to-day shut up in the prison house of slavery, my feelings overcome me, and when I am almost ready to ask, 'Does a righteous God govern the universe?' and for what does he hold the thunders ...
- 4797: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... the point of free will and God's power in context to Lewis' work on the existence of pain of lby states that: "Suppose that in my eagerness to be perfectly happy I persuade God day after day to change all prevailing conditions to my wishes. But if all conditions follow my wishes, it is obvious that they cannot possibly follow your wishes also and you will therefore be deprived of your freedom ...
- 4798: Raoul Wallenberg
- ... anyone who know him the slightest clew to his high station in life as a member of one of Sweden's most distinguished families (bierman 21). Wallenberg loved hanging out with friends and doing every day normal things. No one In the United States knew of his family's importance so he was just your normal college student. Wallenberg liked to draw and paint things. He was good at it, too ... he hitch hiked. He liked it and got the chance to meet lots of different people (Linne'a 156). On his Summer break of 1935 he worked it a Swedish pavilion making three dollars a day at the Chicago world's fair. The next summer he and a college buddy drove to Mexico to stay a few weeks with his aunt and uncle who lived on the outskirts of Mexico city ...
- 4799: Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
- ... defeated the neiboring barbarians, after a rebellion that destroyed Thebes. Next he started a campaign through the Anatolian highlands where he met and defeated the Persian army under Darius the third at Issus(near modern day Turkey). He then occupied Syria and after a long siege of Tyre, then Phoenicia and then he marched into Egypt,were he was accepted as pharaoh. From there he visited the famous Libyan oracle or ... and founded the city of Alexandria, next he crossed the Easter Desert and the Tigris an Euphrates Rivers. Then, in the autumn of 331 B.C. he defeated Darius' grand army at Guagamela(near modern day Iraq). Darius then fled to the mountain residence of Ecbatana,while Alexander occupied Babylon, the imperial capital of Susa, and Persepolis. Henceforth Alexander acted as legitimate king of Persia. Yet a major uprising in Greece ...
- 4800: Michelangelo
- ... time. In Rome, in 1536, Michelangelo was at work on the Last Judgment for the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, which he finished in 1541. The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. Christ, with a clap of thunder, puts into motion the inevitable separation, with the saved ascending on the left side of the painting and the damned descending on the right into a Dantesque hell. As ... painting (14.2-ft) tall marble statue shows an alert David represents one of the earliest examples of mannerist art. This waiting for his enemy Goliath. It was originally is an alarming view of Judgment Day, with grotesque and created for the piazza in front of the Palazzo Vecchio twisted figures. While Christ stands in the center of the in Florence, Italy, but was later moved to the Galleria fresco meting ...
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