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- 8371: Great Wall Of China
- ... each other by day using smoke signals, ! waving flags, blowing horns, and ringing bells; by night by lighting firework-like objects in the sky. The wall, itself, was approximately fifteen hundred miles long, thirty feet high and, at the base, twenty-five feet thick. It was made of the core of earth and gravel. Actually, it was two walls aligned with each other and then filled in with a stone base ...
- 8372: A Time Of Prosperous Change
- ... changed just as if times were changing from the early 1900s to the later 1900s. Weldon writes that: "It seemed to Ruth that at last the times had come to return to the High Tower. She could walk with ease, even run a little. She could life a two-pound weight in either hand. Her circulatory problems were under control. She no longer needed the Hermione Clinic. She no ...
- 8373: Atomic Bomb
- ... the ultimate goal of creating an atomic bomb. At one time it employed over 129,000 workers. The United States was the only nation in the world with the capacity to work on such a high level. Though it cost approximately $2 billion dollars, many officials who knew about the Top Secret project felt it was well worth it- if the Atomic Bomb proved useful. Another major expense of the United ...
- 8374: Attitudes Towards Animals In N
- ... in their hunting scenes. Simple brute force is used to kill the lions, displaying the power of King Ashurbanipal. The lions have little or no chance of survival in this scene. The humans in their high perch are in no real danger. The depiction of the dying lioness trying to move despite being shot several times appears to show respect for the animal, but it was probably used to show how ...
- 8375: American Reconstruction
- ... had only come for their gain, and called them "carpetbaggers." African Americans made up close to one-third of the Republican delegates. These delegates wrote new constitutions based on Northern examples. They set up public school systems and gave the vote to all adult males. By 1869, voters had approved all these constitutions and the ex-Confederate states were let back in the Union. Fourteen African American congressmen and two African ...
- 8376: Atomic Bomb
- ... of Japanese would have died. However, some people suggest that recently declassified documents indicate that no such 'official' estimate existed and that estimations of casualties ranged from a low of about 25,000 to a high of 46,000. If true, this would make the figure 250,000 nothing more than a "postwar creation"- an effort in some measure to justify the use of the A-bombs on the grounds of ...
- 8377: Amelia Earhart
- ... In 1914 Amy and the girls left Edwin after he was fired from The Rock Island RR, and went to live with friends in Chicago. After visiting her sister in 1917 at a college preparatory school in Canada, Amelia decided to train as a nurses aid in Toronto and served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at a military hospital until the Armistice in November 1918. In the fall of 1919 ...
- 8378: Aphrodite
- ... century, was an important figure in this revolutionary new style. Praxiteles depicted Aphrodite in more flexible poses than ever before. In his statues of the goddess, it is apparent that he was striving for a high degree of realism. He was keenly aware of human anatomy and, for the first time in art history, there was an effort to convey a sense of "the flesh and bones beneath the skin" (Prag ...
- 8379: Automobile
- ... an open road near his native town, Illogan. His success was due to the greater efficiency and smaller size of his power unit, wich was the first to have the piston moved by steam at high pressure. In the United States, the inventor Oliver Evans obtained the first patent on a steam carriage in 1789. In 1803, he built a self-propelled steam dredge, wich is regarded as the first self ...
- 8380: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lincoln was outraged at the number of casualties and on November 19th delivers the Gettysburg Address dedicating the battlefield as a national cemetery. He spoke in his high, penetrating and in a little over two minutes delivered the address, surprising many by its shortness and leaving others quite unimpressed. Over time, however, the speech and its words- government of the People, by the ...
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