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- 6061: The Battle Of Little Big Horn
- ... as they were passing, a few miles south of Fort Laramie, an Indian stole a cow. The Mormons reported this to Lieutenant Hugh B. Fleming, the commander of the post. Fleming demanded that the offender, High Forehead of the Minneconjou, face charges. Chief Conquering Bear suggested that the Mormons come to his herd of ponies and pick out the best pony he had to replace the cow, which to the Sioux ... war the American economy was booming. Railroad stocks led the way. On, September 18 1873, banking crashed. Farm prices plummeted, grasshopper plaques ruined crops, yellow fever struck in the Mississippi Valley, and unemployment went sky high. The government figured that it's role was to pour money into the economy. The gold supply was insufficient. President Grants solution to the economy was to open new territory for exploration. So in the ...
- 6062: Report On Opera
- ... her soprano and his tenor. The audience is tentatively assured that love will indeed conquer all. Yet it is when Romeo hears the morning lark that the truth brings the audience back down from the high spirits of their lovely duet. With the morning light, comes the harsh truth of the matter that Romeo has been exiled, and they can no longer stay together. With a sweeping and heart-wrenching duet so strongly contrasted to their blissful song of love, the couple sing their farewell. Musically, this is the most powerful point in the piece. The audience is lifted so high by the joy of their love, then suddenly sinks, then falls, slowly but surely, until you are convinced of their impending doom. Bibliography: Eaton, Quaintance. The Miracle of the Met Meredith Press, New York; 1968 ...
- 6063: Albert Einstein 5
- ... in bed wondering how an invisible force could pass through space (Strathern 13). His uncle gave him his first mathematics book and Einstein read it until he could do every problem in the book. In school, Einstein wasn t exactly a teacher s pet. The teachers at German school during his childhood prided themselves on behaving like bossy, pedantic sergeant majors (Strathern 13). Teachers told him he would never amount to anything. Einstein more than proved them wrong. The first years on his own ...
- 6064: Causes Of The 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 ...
- 6065: Albert Einstein Biography
- ... officially to relinquish his German citizenship in favour of Swiss. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at Zurich. After attending secondary school at Aarau, Einstein returned (1896) to the Zurich Polytechnic, graduating (1900) as a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics. He worked at the patent office in Bern from 1902 to 1909 and while there he completed an astonishing range of theoretical physics publications, written in his spare time without ...
- 6066: The Roswell Incident
- ... of a top-secret program called Project Mogul .... It's classified purpose was to try to develop a way to monitor possible Soviet nuclear detonations with the use of low-frequency acoustic microphones placed at high altitudes" (Thomas 1). "Although the GAO is not satisfied with the Air Force's explanation, it has confirmed the existence of Project Mogul" (Anderson 1995). Since it took the Air Force so long to transpire ... many people were already very skeptical. Some wondered why the military did not look for the crash site. Others are intrigued by the fact that this crash was treated by the military with such a high degree of importance and secrecy, including intimidation of witnesses, like Mac Brazel. In a recent movie, Men in Black, the government is depicted as being aware of alien life. There is a secret department which ...
- 6067: A Gold Rush Leads To War
- ... slavery. The peace between abolitionists and slaveowners was not helped by three events which occurred in 1857. One was an economic "panic" which threw support to the newly formed Republican party. The Republicans had promised high protective tariffs, against the lowering of import duties imposed by the Democrats. However, they also maintained a strongly abolitionist platform. The support they gained from the tariff issue also brought increased support to their abolitionist ... president without the consent of the Senate. Radicals and Democrats alike were delighted, because they thought they now had sufficient grounds to impeach Johnson. They quickly did so, but fell short of convicting Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by only a single vote. Amidst the political turmoil in Washington, six former Confederate states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. Alabama, Arkansas, North and South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana all ratified the amendment ...
- 6068: Pyrotechnics, The Art Of Fire
- ... reactive that they cannot be packed directly into a firework. To generate them, we need pyrotechnic compositions designed to generate the above molecules, to evaporate them into the flame and to keep them at as high temperature as possible to achieve maximum light output. To get good colors, there must be substantial amounts of emitters present in the flame. The emitters are not alone: in order to achieve the high temperature, a fuel - oxidizer system is also needed, as well as some additional ingredients. The colors of aerial fireworks come invariably from stars, small pellets of firework composition which contain all the necessary ingredients for ...
- 6069: Benito Juarez
- ... the age of twelve ran away to the city to learn. He entered the city penniless, and didn’t even speak the language. He soon got a job helping a bookbinder, and attended a parish school. He soon left the school because of discrimination, and social class divisions. He worked, and was then able to enroll in the Holy Cross Seminary. Benito did not want to become a priest, but the free education kept him there ...
- 6070: Limonene And Its Uses
- ... likely provide any new findings. Adequate information is available to characterize its risks to humans and animals. Toxicity Limonene is of relatively low acute toxicity taken orally. It is a dermal irritant when applied at high concentrations and may cause dermal sensitization. A 90-day dermal toxicity study using the formulated product is required as confirmatory data to support reregistration of the insect repellent that is to be applied directly to ... needed." End-use products without the mosquito larvicide use must bear the following statement: "Do not apply directly to water, or to areas where surface water is present or to intertidal areas below the mean high-water mark. Do not contaminate water when disposing of equipment washwater or rinsate." Precautionary Statements To reduce the risk of adverse effects which occasionally occur in pets exposed to limonene flea and tick control products ...
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