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- 1291: Charles Lindbergh
- ... of WWII. Including the infamous corsair. He was also sent on cargo missions by the U.S. Air Force to far off places such as Hawaii, and Europe. Charles Lindbergh relates to todays movie and rock stars. He was looked up upon by many people of his time. There was no television that people could get famous on. Most of the time, on half of the United States did not even ...
- 1292: Character Analysis
- ... to the common activities of young girls. While many girls are playing house with their dolls, Catherine's dolls are left untouched as she entertains herself playing cricket. Her most favorite thing being a hearty roll down the green slope behind her house. Unlike most girls, her thumb is far from green. She can be found in a garden only when picking forbidden flowers. Catherine is never able to figure something ...
- 1293: Catacombs
- ... transfer of the relics was completed the catacombs were no longer visited. They were totally abandoned, except for the tombs of Saint Sebastian, Saint Lawrence and of Saint Pancratius. Over the course of time, landslides, rock movement, and vegetation hid the entrances to the other catacombs. The very traces of their existence were lost. During the late Middle Ages they didn't even know where they were. The Christian religion developed ...
- 1294: Buddhist Art--two Periods Of B
- ... 134). This example of a Gandharan Bodhisattva probably once stood in a stupa or temple. This sculpture is made from the material schist. According to the book The Materials of Sculpture, Schist is a metamorphic rock of foliate character and dark silvery gray color, sometimes tending to blue or green. Used for the great school of Buddhist sculpture in Gandhara (Penny 310). The hard schist material allowed the sculptors of Gandhara ...
- 1295: British Appeasement
- ... and Glory - Britain 1900-1990 (1996) Fuchser, L.W. Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement: A Study in the Politics of History (1982) Lentin, A. Guilt at Versailles; Lloyd George and the Pre-history of Appeasement (1994) Rock, W.R. British Appeasement in the 1930s (1977)
- 1296: Battle On March 9th
- ... to the building of the USS Monitor, the USS New Ironsides was built. It was believed to be the strongest ship built by the Northern Navy. Wooden ships were now obsolete. Ironclad ships began to roll out of ship yards more often than their wooden counterparts. The invention of the ironclads in the Civil War set examples for the future of ship building in the United States. The ironclads were at ...
- 1297: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... Nga province featured prominently in the James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun. Verdant limestone islands, honeycombed with caves and aquatic grottoes, soar perpendicularly from almost perpetually calm waters. Major attractions include prehistoric rock paintings and a stilted Muslim fishing village. Tarutao Marine National Park in Satun province, 31 kilometres off the southern Thai coast near the Thai-Malaysian Indian Ocean maritime border, is a 51-island cluster covering ...
- 1298: Aztecs 4
- ... went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw while entering the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city aqueducts (piping) were ...
- 1299: Aztec 2
- ... the Aztecs were first colonizing, an ancient legend came into play. According to the legend, a great civilization would be born in a marshy area where they would see a cactus growing out of a rock and perched on it, an eagle eating a snake. The priests said they saw this when the arrived in the swampy area of the Aztecs. (This is why the Eagle, Cactus and Serpent are written ...
- 1300: Ancient Egyptian Medicine
- ... would treat it by applying a mixture of sodium carbonate, black mascara, and red ocher. They were able to perform surgeries on the eye where they would remove the iris and remove a piece of rock or metal. Another specialty was the treating of the teeth. Ancient Egyptian doctors who specialized in dental care, are not believed to have had knowledge of dental surgery because no evidence has been found in ...
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