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- 2651: Sir Anton Dolin
- ... artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of age his parents moved from Slinfold to Brighton. It was at about this time that the boy made up his mind to become ...
- 2652: Air Pollution 2
- ... the world. Besides that optical effect it causes an increase of ozone in the lower atmosphere and the health conditions of the particular organism living in such an area. For example, it is estimated that Washington DC receives 10% less sunlight than at the begging of the century due to the shielding of atmospheric pollution.* The ozone enters the leaves of plants turning them brown and makes it difficult for plant ...
- 2653: The Greatest
- ... should have retired after the loss, but he refused to quit. He only ran and trained harder and longer. This helped him to overcome the odds and regain his title in 1974 by knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round. Again, people believed Ali should have retired a champion, but he kept on fighting
.and winning! Writers that year voted him the third greatest athlete from 1900-1977, next to ...
- 2654: The Death Of A Criminal
- ... Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. The choices of execution are: hanging, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, and lethal injection (BJS 12-92). These also vary from state to state. There are guidelines that are followed before a prisoner ...
- 2655: Regulating Big Companies
- ... to 17 felony violations of the export control laws. They illegally exported 17 advanced computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory. Russia secretly bought the computers in late 1996 and early 1997, and believed that Washington would approve the purchase after Moscow signed a total ban on nuclear tests. The computers can improve Russia's ability to simulate nuclear weapons testing. The sale of any computer to a Russian nuclear weapons ...
- 2656: Thomas Jefferson
- ... freedom, enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793. Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, began to form. Jefferson gradually assumed leadership of the Republicans, who sympathized with the revolutionary ...
- 2657: Gun Control
- ... murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of ...
- 2658: Gun Control Isn't About Guns Its About Control
- ... by 11%. This clearly shows that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens can prevent crime. In contrast many of our countries major cities have banned all guns. In 1976 guns were banned in Washington DC. Since then the murder rate has risen 200%. According to a CBS poll, 64% of Americans rightfully understand and don't believe gun control laws reduce crime anyway. History has proven that every nation ...
- 2659: The Vietnam War
- ... several other countries might follow it's lead(Hearden 63-65). On November 1, 1963, Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. The U.S. government clearly had no more use for Diem in the Vietnamese conflict. Washington was fully aware of the plot to end Diem's reign in the South. Diem was making too many political enemies during the conflict. More and more southerners were refusing to support him as the ...
- 2660: Global Warning
- ... change without an international framework.. If a ton of carbon were emitted in the United States and a ton of carbon were emitted in China, both would have the same effect on the climate in Washington, DC. Only through the concerted actions of all the countries of the world, developed as well as less developed, will the problem of global climate change be meaningfully addressed. The solutions to the problems lie ...
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