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- 5261: The Neandertals
- ... feet, and they usually travelled in bands of no more than 30 people. The Neandertals had broad noses, and scientists think this was to warm the cold air. They also had thick browridges, receding chins, high foreheads, and their skulls sloped back over their brains. They learned to hunt in groups in order to kill the bigger game. The Neandertals lived with modern humans for 10,000 years, but they didn ... Neandertals was "primitive". However, they have changed their minds. "You need a lot of brains for flint knapping," Jacques Pelegrin of the French Center for Archaeological Research. Recent excavations show that Neandertal tools required a high level of craftsmanship and mental ability. During most of their existence, Neandertals have what is called Mousterian technology- flaked tools (i.e. scrapers and points) and this remained unchanged for 100,000 years. During the ...
- 5262: Education: Equal Opportunity?
- ... help, and develop the capalist order in society. Education was used provided to train people with knowledge of information in a fast growing capitalist society. Making the people knowledgeable enough, to apply skills learned from school into the capitalist order. The second reason why education was mandated was because many different races and social background would provide fittings of the varied economic opportunity in society. Creating equal opportunity in education would ... at an early age to help support their families. They simply do not have the time to attend higher education. The issue on IQ does not dramatically affect how long an individual will stay in school. Based on the data by Samuel and Valerie Nelson, on the Educational attainments of people with childhood IQs and socioeconomic background. The data concluded that family socioeconomic class does influence greater years of schooling. IQs ...
- 5263: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... 1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time visna viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not known in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979." "In his comparison ... have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ...
- 5264: The Battle of the Spanish Armada
- ... caused him and his kingdom. For over twenty years, her privateers had been sacking Spanish settlements in America and laying claims to these cities. Her Sea Dogs, like Sir Francis Drake, had stolen on the high seas many Spanish treasures taken from the New World. This took away from the wealth of Philip's kingdom directly. Furthermore, she had cleverly refused his marriage invitations for years, and had put down a ... Spain. Medina wrote to the King that "the Armada was so crippled and scattered, it seemed my first duty to Your Majesty to save it, even at the risk of a very long voyage in high latitudes." The Armada was in no condition to turn back and fight its way through the Channel. Besides, the wind was still taking it north. They decided to sail around Scotland and southward in the ...
- 5265: Confederate States Naval Technological Advances
- ... with two inches of iron, the first Ironclad was born. Though the name Merrimac is the name that this Confederate technological terror has become known as, her CSN christened name was Virginia. She held nine high powered, high caliber guns, including multiple 39 pounders plus a four foot iron battering ram on the bow. Though unheard of by most of the population, submarines were used during the war as well. The Hunley, based ...
- 5266: Asian American
- ... as the enormous growth of the American economy as a whole, which after World War II was the strongest in the world. Towns grew into cities and the quality of life for Americans was very high. Not only did the country prosper by economic means it was a pioneering into different fields of science such as research and development and had some of the most brilliant scientists working to improve the ... such a rate that it was hard for the economy to keep up. Importing and exporting goods was a key in economic survival for many coastal cities and a market for American products was in high demand in many countries. During the Post War years, an ever increasing demand in military weapons research and development is conducted by many universities and is funded by the government, inventions like the hydrogen bomb ...
- 5267: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... as organist and his ability to compose sacred and secular music. His stay in Cothen staged his fame in his country for his music. Bach's last job was as Cantor at St. Thomas's school in Leipzig. This was one of the most prestigious posts in Germany. There in Leipzig he spent 20 years constantly battling with the school and church authorities. However, he did write some of the best work in his lifetime during this period. Johann Sebastian Bach spent his life devoted to his music. In that respect he was a genius ...
- 5268: The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930
- ... war materials in Europe and at home. When Franklin D Roosevelt came into office in 1932 America, along with the rest of the world, was going through the worst crisis in history. Unemployment was sky high and the banking system near a complete collapse. Roosevelt blamed it on the Republicans and launched his New Deal with hope of recovery. Roosevelt was a brave pragmatist and willing to try almost anything that ... and cars. Between 1945 and 1960 the gross national product nearly doubled. The government continued spending money on war materials and new weapons because of the Cold war and the Korean conflict. America enjoyed a high position (almost the only position) in international trade. Europe's countries needed everything but could produce very little.
- 5269: Causes of the American Civil War
- ... federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South felt these were ...
- 5270: The Civil War
- ... elected was Jefferson Davis from Mississippi, and a vice-president, Alexander Stephens. Jefferson Davis was born in 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky. As a boy he grew up in Mississippi and went to a catholic school. Then he went to Transylvania University in 1821 and graduated at West Point in 1828. After school he joined the army and served in the Black Hawk War, which was the last Indian and White Man War east of the Mississippi River. After that he married the daughter of Zachary Taylor, Sarah ...
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