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- 4751: Columbine
- ... not have to think or be afraid of sending their child to school and never seeing them. Last year one of the worst school shootings took place at Columbine High School. Not only did it effect the famlies of the victims and of the killers, pretty much the whole nation was involved and many people were brought in to figure out what had happened, and why it happened. This incident brought ...
- 4752: Slavery
- ... were for slavery wanted to have the right to choose if they wanted slavery. However, the newly elected president Abraham Lincoln was against slavery. After a long period of debate the Emancipation Proclamation came into effect in 1863. This freed slaves in the Confederate States. The Union Army had to conquer southern territory for the slaves to feel liberated. All the free blacks joined to fight in the war as they ...
- 4753: America
- ... teenagers sent to Vietnam and Desert Storm didn't hate the so-called "enemies", but killing them was done most often as an act of fear and survival. Much could be said concerning cause and effect, but executing nearly 3,000 people on death row won't solve America's problem with rising crime rate. It would be no more than weeding a garden by cutting the tops while leaving the ...
- 4754: Events Leading To The American
- ... people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying it's foundations on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.". What the declaration is really saying, is that a society who has no or little rights (such as the colonies) should be destroyed, thus separation from England. A new society would ...
- 4755: Civil War Journal
- ... filled for once. The meal worms were not as big either than that of southern Hardtack and we just dunked it in our coffee, and skimmed those critters off the top and they did not effect the taste of it. We are still in Knox County. I think we might have another battle to regain Chattanooga. I doubt that the victory will happen. Many of the men went home to their ...
- 4756: The Cold War
- ... peace treaty with Japan without consulting USSR. This was rejected by Stalin and accepted by the other western powers. The Treaty was signed on the 8th of sept 1951 by 48 countries. It came into effect on the 28 April 1952, and at the same time the allied occupation of Japan officially ended. At the same time as the peace treaty a security pact was signed by the US and Japan ...
- 4757: Vietnam
- ... representing the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional Revolutionary Communist Government of South Vietnam signed an Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. The cease-fire officially went into effect on January 28. Both the US and North Vietnam asserted that there were no secret peace terms.2 All the US fighting forces had withdrawn from Vietnam by March 1973, but not without major losses ...
- 4758: Air Force History
- ... was an extended debate resulted in the defeat of a major civil rights bill forbidding discrimination in housing and of a bill permitting states to enact right-to-work laws. The Senate also voted, in effect, to annul a provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that required desegregation of hospitals. In December 1967, he returned from Southeast Asia to Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, where his duties were T-38 ...
- 4759: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... Columbia Encyclopedia 1). The government gave the companies a 30-year loan for each mile of track laid, but the railroad companies had difficulty finding support for the project. The government bonds would only take effect after the first 40 miles of track were built. A man named Theodore Judah was nominated to find people who would invest heavily in the companies. On one of his crusades for investors, Judah gave ...
- 4760: The Telescope
- ... again in Italy) in the middle of the fifteenth century. So by about 1450 the ingredients for making a telescope were there. Several combinations of convex and concave mirrors and lenses can achieve the telescope effect. Why was the telescope not invented in the fifteenth century? There is no good answer to this question, except perhaps that the lenses and mirrors of the appropriate strengths not available until later. In the ...
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