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- 4211: The Cold War
- ... trips were to be cancelled. With these failures, the US felt that it had no choice but to continue with the organization of partisans and help them usurp the dictatorship of Cuba. By the time John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, the development of the invasion was already in full force. Eisenhower had earmarked $13 million and a force of 1300 men had been assembled. Cuban pilots were being ...
- 4212: Literature of Native Canadians
- ... world examine "Magic, Witchcraft and Religion." It provides, using many authors, most of whom are speciaalists in a realted field, introductions into subjects we don't often think about - except on Halloween! Works Cited 1) John L. Tobias, "Protection, Civilisation, Assimilation: An Outline History of Canada's Indian Policy" Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian - White Relations, J.R. Miller ed., University of Toronto Press; 1992, pp127- 144. Parker Duchemin, "Stealing ...
- 4213: Fallen Souls in "The Inferno"
- ... his deceit and worthlessness was shown when Arnold sold his services to the British, (New Standard Enc. A-627). Arnold supplied the Brits with valuable military information and agreed to turn over West Point to John Andrι` a major in the British army. The plot fell through and Arnold fled from New England to London where he spent the rest of his life in obscurity poverty, (New Standard Enc. A-627 ...
- 4214: An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... s the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter takes place in Puritan Salem and has a tragic hero, but these are the only similarities between the two great works. In Miller's play, the tragic hero is John Proctor, a man whose pride causes the demise of many women, tried as witches. Had Proctor chosen to reveal his sin of lechery with Abigail Williams before the problem got out of hand, he would ...
- 4215: Ray Bradbury
- ... in 1962, and his teleplay of The Halloween Tree won an Emmy. Also he has written for such T.V. shows: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Twilight Zone and in 1953 did a screenplay for John Haston's Moby Dick. Ray Bradbury's writing has been honored in many ways, but perhaps the most unusual was when an Apollo astronaut named the Dandelion Crater on the Moon after Bradbury's novel ...
- 4216: Richard Nixon
- ... selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. His accomplishments while in office included revenue ...
- 4217: History Of The F-16
- ... the YF-16, but it didn t work. The YF-16 had caught on by people all around for being one of the best fighters of the time. On January 13, 1975, Air Force Secretary John McLucas announced that the YF-16 had been selected as the winner of the Air Combat Fighter (ACF) contest. The Air Force placed a contract for fifteen Full-Scale Development (FSD) airframes. Both single and ...
- 4218: Bridge Structures
- ... is characterized by spans that are supported not at the ends but near the center of the grider or truss. A suspension bridge 1010 feet long was designed and constructed by the German-American engineer John Roebling over the Ohio River, at Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1846. It was the first long-span wire-cable suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, and the Golden Gate ...
- 4219: Allegory
- ... universe, and Lord of the Flies (1954), a story about shipwrecked boys that examines the persistence of evil. Contributor: Paul Strohm Related Articles in Information Finder include: Aesop's Fables Golding, Sir Morality Play Bunyan, John William Parable Divine Comedy Melville, Romance Fable Herman Spenser, Edmund
- 4220: Life In The 1900's
- ... Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Nova Scotia. By the turn of the century telephones had uses increased from ordering household goods to supplying jobs for women and men. 1901, Signal Hill in St.John's Newfoundland Guglielmo Marcone received the first radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean. 20 years would elasped before radio broadcasting becomes mass entertainment. First movies were seen in the 19th century. 20 years will ...
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