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- 771: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... early in his life that peace was preferable to war. Seattle moved to Port Madison Reservation and lived in Old Man House, just across from Bainbridge Island; "This was a community house measuring some 60' x 900' feet easily the largest Indian made wooden structure in the region". (4) When settlers first came to America they were meet by Indians. Once the settlers were able to make it on there own ...
- 772: Orson Welles
- ... whose life was one of paradox. His films reflected his inner conflicts and his attempt to assuage the two extremes of his own existence. "For thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There ...
- 773: Are UFOs Real?
- ... burn. 'I lit the cigarette lighter to some of this stuff and it didn't burn', he said. (Korff, 106) Along with the metal, Marcel described weightless I-beam-like structures that were 3/8" x 1/4", none of them would neither bend nor break. Some of these I-beams had indecipherable characters along the length, in two colors. Marcel also described metal debris the thickness of tin foil that ...
- 774: Oliver Cromwell
- ... As the price for sending a fleet to Spanish Flanders to fight alongside the French he obtained possession of the port of Dunkirk. He also interested himself in Scandinavian affairs; although he admired King Charles X of Sweden, his first consideration in attempting to mediate in the Baltic was the result for his own country. In spite of the emphasis Cromwell laid on the Protestant interest in some of his speeches ...
- 775: Interstellar Travel: Sooner or Later?
- ... motion without propellant, it would still require a lot of energy. Sending a Shuttle-sized vehicle on a 50 year one-way trip to visit our nearest neighboring star (subrelativistic speed) would take over 7 x 10^19 Joules of energy. This is roughly the same amount of energy that the Space Shuttle's engines would use if they ran continuously for the same duration of 50 years. To overcome this ...
- 776: Oxygen
- ... a by-product, while the aerobic organisms oxidize ingested organic materials, using up oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide and water through a complex series of metabolic processes. It has been estimated that 3.5 X (10 to the power of 11) tons of carbon dioxide are cycled annually via these processes. Thus, in the vertebrates--and in humans in particular--oxygen is necessary to sustain metabolism and thus life. Air ...
- 777: Quantum Theory?
- ... we knew all there was to know about physics. But late in the final decade a few curiosities came to light. Roentgen discovered rays that passed through flesh; because they were unexplained, he called them X rays. Two months later, Henri Becquerel accidentally found that a piece of uranium ore emitted something that fogged photographic plates. And the electron, the carrier of electricity, was discovered in 1897. Now we stand on ...
- 778: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Michelangelo’s masterly understanding of human anatomy and movement, changed the course of painting in the West. During his long lifetime, Michelangelo was a friend of princes and popes, from Lorenzo de’ Medici to Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius III, as well as cardinals, painters, and poets. Neither easy to get along with nor easy to understand, he expressed his view of himself and the world even more directly in ...
- 779: The John F. Kennedy Assasination Conspiracy
- ... of the enduring controversy over the assassination than the single-bullett theory (12)”. There are many inconsistencies with this analysis of what has come to be called the “magic bullet” theory. At Parkland Hospital, Dr. Malcolm Perry first noted the wound in Kennedy’s throat and concluded that it was a entry wound, not an exit wound, as the Warren Commission would have us believe (Kurtz, 8). The Zapruder film also ...
- 780: Evolution
- ... 70) the B allele. Assuming there is no preference for AA or BB individuals for mates, the probability of the (30% of total population) AA males mating with AA females is but 9% (0.3 x 0.3 = 0.09). Likewise the probability of an BB to BB match is 49%, the remainder between (30%) AA and (70%) BB individuals, totalling a 21% frequency. Frequency of alleles in a population in ...
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