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- 531: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... local NAACP. In 1956 on December 21 after more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses are desegregate. In 1957, At a previously all-white Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1,000 paratroopers are called by President Eisenhower to restore order and escort The Little Rock Nine to attend school. In 1960, the sit-in protest movement begins in February at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and spreads across the nation. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC ...
- 532: Constantinopolis
- ... architecture-influenced by the Greeks, with whom the Persians were at war in the 5th century BC-left the great royal compound of Persepolis (518-460 BC), created by Darius the Great, and several nearby rock-cut tombs, all north of Shμraz in Iran. See Iranian Art and Architecture. Egypt The urban culture of Egypt also developed very early. Its political history was more stable, however, with strong continuity in the ... the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD, during Buddhist ascendancy, at Sanchi, near Bhopal in central India. In the early period of monastery and temple building, shrines were sculpted out of the solid rock of cliffs. At sites such as Ellora and Ajanta, northeast of Bombay, are great series of these artificial caves carved over many centuries. As the art of temple building developed, construction by subtraction gave way ...
- 533: Alone with Nature
- ... through in a last minuet attempt to catch a worm so it may feed the yearning mouths of it's young. The rough dirt trail ends and you are brought to the base of a rock. Your feet reach for the unfamiliar footholds of the high rocky promontory, anxiously scrambling up the streaky pinkish rock ready to explore any new treasures that lie beyond you. Once on top, you gaze down and see it all- the crystal clear stream brilliantly reflecting the sky, the vast landscape consisting of the towering ...
- 534: Does The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography
- ... women as only being able to fill male sexual desires. To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. One should consider females who pin-up posters of male rock stars or children who collect hockey or baseball cards. Society, however, does not say that objects are being made out of these rock stars and sports heroes; pictures of clothed people are no less objects than pictures of naked people. Many complaints are also made to the effect that pornography only offers a one- dimensional view to life ...
- 535: Does The Mass Media Cause Unde
- ... women as only being able to fill male sexual desires. To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. One should consider females who pin-up posters of male rock stars or children who collect hockey or baseball cards. Society, however, does not say that objects are being made out of these rock stars and sports heroes; pictures of clothed people are no less objects than pictures of naked people. Many complaints are also made to the effect that pornography only offers a one- dimensional view to life ...
- 536: Evolution Of The Corvette
- ... succeed because people in America were just starting to understand the sporty style of the European sports cars. One of the strange ideas Chevy borrowed from the Europeans was that the Corvette didnt have roll up windows, or door handles on the outside. The only thing people didnt really like about this car in its first two years, was the fact that the Corvette only had a six-cylinder ... 1956 Chevy did just that. In 1956 Chevy decided to give the car a more luxurious feel on the inside, as well as increase the cars performance once again. The Corvette now had door handles, roll-up windows, with a power option, and an easier to use convertible. The Corvette also increased its horsepower to 210 hp, with 225 hp available through an optional dual four-barrel carburetor. This was also ...
- 537: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... be manufactured, very cheaply, manufactured goods (and the commodities that are needed to create them) are no longer central to economic life. The only real commodity is information. The bleak, 'no future' landscape of punk rock and post-apocalyptic movies like Blade runner and Mad Max, and imagined a way to escape from the street-level violence these films referred to. Along with Neuromancer, Blade Runner together set the boundary conditions ... the most aborted, most incarcerated, most suicidal, and most uncontrollable, unwanted, and unpredictable generation in history. (Or so claim the authors of 13th Generation. ). "The work of cyberpunks is paralleled throughout eighties pop culture : in rock video ; in the hacker underground; in the jarring street tech of hip-hop and scratch music...." [Bruce Sterling (MONDO 2000) 68] Cyberpunk and Technology In Gibson's world, Cyberspace is a con sensual hallucination created ...
- 538: Life Outside Our Biosphere
- ... Earth. The construction of space stations will be a compilation of resources from across the solar system. Initially, we will obtain much of the material from Earth, but we have other sources available to us. Rock, glass, metal, and oxygen taken from the moon would be better than if it were taken from the Earth, because the moon has such low gravity. Our planet has very strong gravity, and removing matter from our planet uses up a lot of energy. Removing metals and rock from the moon is relatively easy, however. Water is another element vital to the survival of future colonists, and some researchers suggest melting ice from Saturn's rings for this valuable resource. Establishing settlements outside ...
- 539: Telecommunication
- ... letters of the English alphabet, all the numbers and several punctuation marks. A variation to the telegraph was a receiving module that Morse had invented. The module consisted of a mechanically operated pencil and a roll of paper. When a message was received the pencil would draw the corresponding dashes and dots on the paper to be deciphered later. Many inventors including Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison sought to revolutionize the telegraph. Edison devised a deciphering machine. This machine when receiving Morse code would print letters corresponding to the Morse code on a roll of paper hence eliminating the need for decoding the code. 2.2. Mr. Watson, Come Here! The first successful telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He along with Elisha Gray fought against time to ...
- 540: Frank Sinatra
- ... The 1960 s proved to be a decade of change for Sinatra. He did everything in his power to carry on with all the new trends. He released several albums that featured bossa nova, folk-rock, soft rock, and jazz, hoping to win back all the admiration and attention that had come so easily to him years before. He was not used to failure, even though he had a strong taste of it ...
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