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- 3021: Eagles 2
- ... Canada down to northern Mexico. The bald eagle, our national symbol, is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 43 of the lower 48 states and listed as threatened in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. (There are about 40,000 bald eagles in Alaska and none in Hawaii.) However, bald eagles have improved greatly in numbers, productivity, and security in recent years. Male bald eagles generally measure 3 ...
- 3022: Jim Morrison
- ... understand Jim Morrison himself, a background of his life and especially his character is necessary. James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida (Hopkins 5). He was the first child of George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clark Morrison. He had two younger siblings, Anne and Andrew ("James" 1). His father was an officer in the United States Navy and his mother remained a housewife to act as ...
- 3023: Jimi Hendrix
- On November 27, 1942, Jimi Hendrix was born as John Allen Hendrix in Washington at Seattle General Hospital. His childhood was not a privileged one, however, he did indulge himself in one particular way: Jimi loved to play the guitar. At first he played an old acoustic, and later ...
- 3024: Ghosts and Poltergeists
- ... the word paranormal, what would come up? Lots of fake stories, without and legitimacy. But you might just find a story that is true, like the one about the spirit in the White House in Washington D.C. It has been scientifically proven that there is indeed ghosts in existence on this earth. The story of the ghost in the White House, is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. It has been ...
- 3025: Communication Through Pictures
- ... treated with care after development, tough on the battlefield. The best known pictorial records of the Civil War are the photographs commissioned by Mathew Brady (1823-1896), a leading portrait photographer of New York and Washington. At the beginning of the war, Brady sent photographers into the field to record the progress of the conflict in various regions (Photographs in the Civil War Internet). Although taking a few photographs himself, he ...
- 3026: Using the Student Study Sheets in the Classroom
- ... of the Declaration, which for the most part, as Jefferson acknowledged, restated ideas that were commonplace at the time. A comparison between the most memorable passage of Jefferson's document and a parallel passage from George Mason's nearly simultaneous "Declaration of Rights" should help students appreciate that Jefferson was but one voice in a chorus reciting the reasons for self-government and, more importantly, help them tune into the special ...
- 3027: Joeseph McCarthy
- ... became chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, a position he used to launch many of his investigations of government officials and agencies. He did not shy away from questioning the integrity of people such as George C. Marshall or even President Eisenhower. The President disliked McCarthy intensely but refused to "get in the gutter with him" and never denounced the senator publicly. However, by 1953 a seemingly out of control McCarthy ...
- 3028: John Dalton
- ... 2 years.Due to a poor salary, John was forced to leave his school and work in the fields with his brother. In 1781 John and his brother moved to Kendall. There John, his cousin George, and his brother ran a school where they offered English,Latin,Greek,French and twenty one mathematics and science course. Their school had sixty pupils. After twelve years at Kendall John started doing lectures and ...
- 3029: Political Correctness: The Teddy Bear Massacre
- ... is sacred, and anything can come under scrutiny. As Hutaff worries, what will we have to rally around, and to have pride in? I hope we do not get that far. In his book, 1984, George Orwell wrote of a nation, that eliminated all "unnecessary" words and actions. This government even went as far as to try to control thought. I am afraid that the PC movement will some day attempt ...
- 3030: The History of the Pony Express
- ... The first inventor of the telegraph was Samuel Finley Breese Morse. Groups working to finish the transcontinental telegraph meet at Fort Bridger in Utah territory. The first transcontinental telegraph was sent from San Fransico to Washington. The message was from the states Chief Justice to President Lincoln. http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/travel/pony1.html The telegraph line only went as far west as St. Joseph, Missouri in 1860 ...
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