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- 7241: Battle Of The Bulge
- ... band grab weapons and fight. The main reason we surrendered was because of lack of ammunition. The German general took the captain of one infantry, sat him on the hood of a jeep placed a gun to his head and drove him around showing him to all the SS soldiers like a trophy. On December 17th American Seventh armored division engaged Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army at St. Vith. St. Vith ...
- 7242: Battle Of Gettysburg
- ... Day 1, July 1, 1863 saw the start of the best three days of the AOP's life. Brigadier General John Buford, recognizing the fact that whoever held the high ground south of Gettysburg would control the killing fields, dismounted his cavalry for a showdown with Major General Henry Heth's infantry division. Deployed to the west of Gettysburg to slow Heth's advance, the 2,700 dismounted troopers, firing rapidly ...
- 7243: Baseball, History Of
- ... isolated and surrounded by the green grass of ballparks. The major league color barrier was breached in 1947 by the careful planning and daring of Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and the courage, self-control, and baseball skill of Jackie Robinson, who Rickey invited to pioneer with his team. Robinson s talents and legendary aggressiveness made him into one of the best second basemen who ever played the game. Currently ...
- 7244: Crime Of Passion By Barbara Hu
- ... the hospital. The healthy police officer was described as a young, witty macho cop with thirty-two pounds of attack equipment. When reading this, the vision of a man in a blue uniform with his gun and walkie-talkie enters the mind. When the man had been diagnosed with lung cancer he was described as a sixty pound skeleton being kept alive by liquid food poured down a tube. The code ...
- 7245: Babylon
- ... After the Assyria were defeated, by the next great leader of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar 1, it than soon after got into a conflict with the powerful Persian Empire and was defeated. The Babylonians were under Persian control for a very short time before the empire fell. Under the new King Nabuchodonosor Added to the land by taking over Elam and Syria. He proved to the ancient world that Babylon is still a ...
- 7246: Aztec Indians 2
- ... could increase their status or possible acquire land of their own. The king was the supreme leader of the Aztec Empire. He was responsible for all of the provinces and people over which he had control. The king was extremely powerful as a result of the Aztec belief that kings were the descendants of the god Huitzilopochtli, the god of war who was responsible for the movement of the sun. This ...
- 7247: Data Storage Devices
- Data Storage Devices Even before the first computer was conceptualized, data had already been stored on hard copy medium and used with a machine. As early as 1801, the punched card was used as a control device for mechanical looms. One and one-half centuries later, IBM joined punched cards to computers, encoding binary information as patterns of small rectangular holes. Today, punch cards are rarely used with computers. Instead, they ...
- 7248: Atomic Bomb 9
- ... is repeated, a self-sustaining chain reaction will occur, and it is this chain reaction that causes the atomic bomb to have its destructive power. The first type of atomic bomb ever used was a gun-type. In this type two subcritical pieces of U-235 are placed in a device similar to the barrel of an artillery shell. One piece is placed at one end of the barrel and will ...
- 7249: Athens And Sparta
- ... had was very tough and grueling. They learned gymnastics and aerobics. They also had more freedom then women of other city-states. They were able to move from place to place , do the shopping , and control the house. They also had a lot of freedom from their husbands because their husbands lived in barracks. Most of the time the Spartan women worked on fields and were medics to the injured Spartan ...
- 7250: A Dolls House
- ... Criticism in A Doll s House In A Doll s House, Ibsen as he often does, criticizes society and the ways of life in that time. Ibsen shows this in Torvold s overwhelming power and control over Nora. This is also seen in the way that Women are weakened by society. Lastly it is shown in the way that Torvold tries to maintain a good reputation to the public. Ibsen critics ...
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