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- 1261: Prescribed Burning
- ... Sierras rise gradually eastward from the state's Central Valley - first as nut-brown grassy foothills, then as chaparral and manzanita brushlands in wild canyons, then as sprawling mixed-conifer forestlands of true nobility. Then John Muir's 500-mile-long "range of light" attains pinnacle and peak status on the "back row" of the grandstand, leaves forests and their fuels behind, then plummets to the Nevada desert below. The southern ... Mt. Lassen, fire officers can demonstrate that previous prescribed fire can slow or stop major forest fires, open habitat areas for grazing and forage, and in some cases help protect homes from approaching wildfire. But John Maupin, fire-management officer on the Plumas, emphasizes that one prescribed burn seldom does the trick, citing historical three- to 15-year cycles of natural fuel-reduction burns through much of the West. "Tomorrow if ... specific useful purposes. Our "prescriptions" for various kinds of blazes have been as varied as the characters who kindled them: Back in 1879, on what is today's Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, naturalist John Muir set a monstrous forest fire "thirty or forty feet high" to dry his clothes on a rainy night. "It was wonderful - the illuminated rain and clouds...the trees glowing against the jet background" ...
- 1262: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
- ... famous day and year. (Longfellow) It was decided that, on Saturday, April 15, 1775, something was going to happen. A move by the British was truly inevitable. Paul Revere was to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock, both staying with the Reverend Jonas Clark in Lexington, of the probable British invasion. Not only was Revere to notify Adams and Hancock of a possible attack, he was also to direct the two ... and awoke as many sleepers as he could between Menotomy and Lexington. Revere made good time. Once Revere arrived in Lexington, he went to the household of Reverend Jonas Clark and got Sam Adams and John Hancock out of bed. The three of them sat down to wait for Dawes, who rode into Lexington a half an hour later. This was, in all truth, the end of Paul Reveres legendary ride ... together to reshape their future. The Lexington militia company had gathered on Lexington Green, shortly after Paul Revere rode in. There they waited for over an hour with no idea on what to do. Captain John Parker, the head of the Lexington militia had gathered them with hopes that they might decide what to do. Parker retired his men, but ordered them to be ready at a moment’s notice. ...
- 1263: Movie Villains
- ... tries to kill Moses. Dathan meets his despise by being engulfed in a trench than makes him fall into a place worse than any other place in the world. A fairly old villain is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Long John doesn't die in the end, he escapes because he tricks Jim into letting him go from his prison, he escapes and probably is still trying to find gold to this day. One more modern ... What makes villains who they are, what drives them to evil? C. The speech is setup into listing villains and explain their backgrounds. II. Villains A. Wicked Witch of the West. B. Leatherface. C. Long John Silver. D. Noah Cross. III. Villains and their untimely death. A. Every villains has his own reason for his acts, each is different. B. Mostly the common reasons are, greed, revenge, or just plain ...
- 1264: Freedom In The United States
- ... the government when he printed up a copy of the colony's charter. He was charged with seditious libel and spent more than a year in prison. A more famous incident was the trial of John Peter Zenger which established the principle of a free press. In his newspaper he published satirical ballads regarding William Cosby, the unpopular governor, and his council. His media was described "as having in them many ... immediately pardoned. The next attack on the First Amendment occurred in 1835. President Andrew Jackson proposed a law that would prohibit the use of mail for "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." John C. Calhoun of South Carolina led a special committee that opposed the proposal on grounds that it conflicted with the First Amendment. The proposal was defeated because it was a form of censorship. The next ... librarians to resign and the closing of libraries. On the morning of December 16, 1965, thirteen year old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove ...
- 1265: Eleanor Aquitaine
- ... off Southampton. They were crowned King and Queen of England by the archbishop of Canterbury on December 19, 1154. On Christmas Eve 1167 at Oxford Eleanor gave birth to her last child, the future king John. This is said to be the end of Eleanor and Henrys sexual life, after the birth of John, they never slept together.9Henry had started his affair with Rosamund Clifford before 1167, and she was more than a sleeping partner, she was also a rival to the queen. Eleanor did not seek revenge ... his neck, and after a painful operation a iron piece was still in and Gangrene set in. Eleanor took Richards death as a great shock and never fully recovered. With Richard's death his brother John would now become King, who unlike Richard was short, fat and ugly. He lived a life of luxury and became known as a glutton and a drunkard. Eleanor died April 1of 1204. During her ...
- 1266: First Amendment
- ... the government when he printed up a copy of the colony's charter. He was charged with seditious libel and spent more than a year in prison. A more famous incident was the trial of John Peter Zenger which established the principle of a free press. In his newspaper he published satirical ballads regarding William Cosby, the unpopular governor, and his council. His media was described "as having in them many ... immediately pardoned. The next attack on the First Amendment occurred in 1835. President Andrew Jackson proposed a law that would prohibit the use of mail for "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." John C. Calhoun of South Carolina led a special committee that opposed the proposal on grounds that it conflicted with the First Amendment. The proposal was defeated because it was a form of censorship. The next ... librarians to resign and the closing of libraries. On the morning of December 16, 1965, thirteen year old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove ...
- 1267: Of Mice and Men and The Pearl: Characterization
- ... extent, the intensity, depth is a distinct level of detail. When someone talks about depth of characterization, they are talking about the level of intensity that someone is using in order to describe a character. John Ernst Steinbeck, in The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath describes many of his main characters in great depth. Steinbeck and Characterization What is depth, and what does it mean? Depth ... extent, the intensity, depth is a distinct level of detail. When someone talks about depth of characterization, they are talking about the level of intensity that someone is using in order to describe a character. John Ernst Steinbeck, in The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath describes many of his main characters in great depth. In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a story of two traveling ... and job to job, but they symbolize much more than that. Their names give us our first hints about them. One of Steinbeck's favorite books when he was growing up was Paradise Lost by John Milton. In this long poem, Milton describes the beginnings of evil in the world. He tells of Lucifer's fall from heaven and the creation of hell. He also describes Adam and Eve's ...
- 1268: Dredd Scott Decision
- ... under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, states were allowed to vote on whether they will allow slavery or not, known commonly as popular sovereignty. In St. Louis, Scott was sold to an army surgeon named Dr. John Emerson in 1833. A year later, Emerson, on a tour of duty, took Scott, his slave, to Illinois, a free state. In 1836, Emerson's military career then took the both of them to the ... territory, he was indirectly freed and remained freed. By this time Mrs. Emerson had married, moved to New England with her new husband, and left these affairs and ownership of the Scotts to her brother, John F. A. Sanford. After Scott was declared free by the courts, Sanford sought an appeal from the Missouri Supreme Court. In 1852 in, Scott v. Emerson, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the decision by the ... which so threatened slavery"[Hall, 797]. His attempt to do this, however, backfired. THE DISSENTERS This case was split 7 to 2, mostly on ideological lines. The two dissenters to Taney's opinion were Justice John McLean of Ohio and Justice Benjamin r. Curtis of Massachusetts. It was Curtis in particular who disagreed with Taney on just about every point. Curtis said that even before the Constitution was written, there ...
- 1269: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- ... successful day off, and his two nemeses fail in their attempts to thwart him. A movie must have a perfect setting. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” accomplished this task with using Chicago as its backdrop. John Hughes, the writer and director, chose Chicago because it was his hometown, and he felt obliged to showcase it. Most of his successful movies took place in or around Chicago. This let him feel more ... feel with the movie. This shows the timelessness of the film. A truly great film will never get old with age. Reviews about the movie were nothing less than flattering. “Of the many youth comedies John Hughes perpetrated in the 1980s, this remains the freshest… the film's digressions are delightful” (F.X. Feeney of LA Weekly). Critics praised the truthful depiction of typical high school life. John Hughes received quite a bit of praise for another successful attempt at recreating real life. He had already succeeded with “Pretty in Pink.” Everyday critics such as ex-vice president, Dan Quayle, say “Ferris ...
- 1270: Arts and Ceramics In History
- ... was due in part to the variety of shapes and the countless range of pictorial and geometric designs on the exterior of the pieces. The ancient Greek pottery has even inspired poetry. An author named John Keats wrote a poem called Ode on a Grecian Earn. The poem speaks of the beauty of Greek pottery. “O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and ...
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