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- 301: Exploring Mars
- ... than robots. Humans would be able to assess a huge assortment of situations faster and would be able to adjust to their actions accordingly to what has to be done. A trained geologist with a rock hammer can accumulate more samples that would be available around the planet in an hour than an automated rover would be able to do in a year. Humans will be extremely valuable in the search ... for life on the planet. A professional astronaut would have the skills to easily spot a protected site that would be favourable to life. An example of this would be a spot sheltered by a rock. Equipment which is automatic that astronauts have is better for things like, repetitive measurements which would be stretched over long periods of time. Scientific research will be divided into two main categories. There would be ... formed, development of the atmosphere and the history of water on Mars. Necessary information will be profited from the rocks that are on the surface, but when drilling deep into the ground and dislodging the rock, it will uncover the historical development of the regions geology. Each day the astronauts job will be to set on the surface in a rover which would contain standard geological tools like hammers, chisels, ...
- 302: Concentration Camps 2
- ... end of 1943, Rudolf Hess was head commander of Auschwitz. Under his leadership, Auschwitz quickly became known as the harshest prison camp in the Nazi regime. Polish prisoners were forced to stand at attention for roll call for hours on end naked in the cold, snowy tundra of Polish winter. Following its first year of existence, Heinrich Himmler visited Auschwitz and told Hess that its labor resource was to be expanded ... with the arrival of 999 Slovakian women. Since the crematoriums had not yet been built, women were housed in a newly established women's section in Auschwitz I, placed to work, and beaten daily at roll call. By the end of March there were 6,000 women prisoners in Auschwitz I. A third section of the camp, called Auschwitz III or Buna-Monowitz, was established to provide forced labor for the ... hair shaven, and they were given striped prisoner garb. Most people only survived a few weeks in the quarantine and a few months in the labor camp itself. Every morning these prisoners had to endure roll call whereby they would stand for hours at attention outdoors in the cold, wind, and rain or snow. Anyone who fell was gassed. By the time the Auschwitz was destroyed and liberated in the ...
- 303: Frank Sinatra
- ... of the bobby-soxers. They were teenage girls who swooned over his crooning, soft-voiced singing. During this time period he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949). Sinatra is also well respected as a jazz singer. During the 1950s and 1960s Sinatra also teamed with a number of talented jazz arrangers, including Nelson Riddle, Neal ... heart attack Thursday night, May 14, 1998, in Los Angeles at the age of 82. Sinatras approach to song and style has drawn the adoration of modern artists from Bono, the leader of the rock group U2 to the alternative group Hootie and the Blowfish. Over the course of his almost 50 years in show business, Sinatra evolved from pop music's first swoon-inducing teen idol to a respected ...
- 304: Egyptians
- ... ourselves.\par \tab Much evidence is found on the walls of ancient buildings and temples. The walls of tombs and even caves have the signature of something other than human. In Anannhet, Tassili there are rock paintings 8,000 years old with strong figures. These figures are flying above a spherical object with a hatch like lid and two protrustions, l that seem to be spitting fire or smoke. Also, on these rock paintings there is a painting of a creature with antenna-like excrescence's on his arms and thighs. He has a helmet with slits for eyes nose, and mouth. There is a naked woman next ... surveying. There are also pictures scratched on the hillsides near Nazca that show figures several yards high, with radiating crowns, similar to the aureoles in Christian painti ngs. In Peru there are worshipping figures in rock drawing, they have zigzag lines that are attributes on the gods, according to Peruvian tradition. How could these be made? They are high sophisticated designs that are to large to do while on the ...
- 305: Mining in Space
- ... mining on Earth and mining on other planetary bodies. The most important is the one already mentioned-heavy equipment cannot be used in space. This will mean additional problems for space miners. Unlike space vacuum, rock does not provide a predictable environment. Furthermore, the constraint in mining is not energy requirements, but force requirements. Rock requires heavy forces to move. In other words, one reason earthbound mining equipment is heavy is that it breaks. This brute force method, however, cannot be used in space. Entirely aside from weight limitations, heavy ... formal presentations. One was the so called laser cutter. This, Peterson indicated, is a potential solution if power problems can be overcome. It does a good job and leaves behind a vitrified tube in the rock. Another possibility is fusion pellets, which create shock waves by impact. On the other hand, nuclear charges are not practical. Aside from considerations generated by treaties banning the presence of nuclear weapons in space, ...
- 306: Breakdancing
- ... Charleston, the cakewalk, and the jitterbug as well as the Afro-Brazilian martial-arts dance Capoeira and the antics of Kung Fu movies. Breakdancing included "breaking" (flipping, spinning, pivoting on the head and hands), "up-rock" (a mock-combat style, often directed against an opponent), and "webbo" (fast footwork between other dance moves). When breakdancing spread to Los Angeles, California, dancers added the "electric boogie," automaton-like dance moves that incorporated ... Bronx graffiti art, Manhattan dance clubs welcomed breakdancers to their floors. And like rap, breakdancing appeared in a number of popular films, including Wild Style (1982), Breakin' (1984), and Beat Street (1984), which featured the Rock Steady Crew, breakdancing's most renowned posse. This publicity, which deemphasized breakdancing's confrontational aspect, turned the dance into a national sensation among white as well as black youths; suburban schoolchildren donned hip hop fashions ... trajectory of subsequent dance trends. Black performers such as Michael Jackson, MC Hammer, and Missy Elliot draw from breakdance styles that never stop evolving. Even such breakdancing originals as Richard "Crazy Legs" Colσn of the Rock Steady Crew, continue to innovate and perform.
- 307: Banned And Censored Music
- ... motion pictures, radio and television programs, and speeches. (World Book 345) Most of the early problems with the censorship of music came about in the early 1950's. This was the first real era of rock and roll in America. In 1954 a Michigan Congresswoman tried to pass a bill that stated that the mailing of any explicit or pornographic album could lead to some hefty jail time, up to five years if ...
- 308: Ancient Egyptain Art
- ... basically one position; with their arms rigid against their sides and their legs tight together. This was also a sure pose against damage, with the legs and arms as part of the large piece of rock, they could not be broken as easily as if they were separate from the body. However, Egyptians began to take a different approach to this pose. They didn't change it completely, they simply altered ... weapons and tools, bowls and vases, and statues and sculptures, the artists first roughed out by hammering causing an impact of stone on stone. Then details were shaped and given a smooth finish by rubbing rock on rock, an abrasive. For gouging and digging, artists used a drill tipped with extremely hard stone and a mounted by a rod weighted down with bags of small stones and rotated by a handle. This ...
- 309: Eddie Vedder Is A Vampire
- Eddie Vedder Is A Vampire Although at first he may seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder, the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very well be a vampire. Although it is impossible to tell, everything points to his being an immortal. An in depth analysis of his ...
- 310: Concentration Camps
- ... end of 1943, Rudolf Hess was head commander of Auschwitz. Under his leadership, Auschwitz quickly became known as the harshest prison camp in the Nazi regime. Polish prisoners were forced to stand at attention for roll call for hours on end naked in the cold, snowy tundra of Polish winter. Following its first year of existence, Heinrich Himmler visited Auschwitz and told Hess that its labor resource was to be expanded ... with the arrival of 999 Slovakian women. Since the crematoriums had not yet been built, women were housed in a newly established women's section in Auschwitz I, placed to work, and beaten daily at roll call. By the end of March there were 6,000 women prisoners in Auschwitz I. A third section of the camp, called Auschwitz III or Buna-Monowitz, was established to provide forced labor for the ... hair shaven, and they were given striped prisoner garb. Most people only survived a few weeks in the quarantine and a few months in the labor camp itself. Every morning these prisoners had to endure roll call whereby they would stand for hours at attention outdoors in the cold, wind, and rain or snow. Anyone who fell was gassed. By the time the Auschwitz was destroyed and liberated in the ...
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