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- 561: Iron Meteorites
- Iron Meteorites In 1890, a lone prospector discovered a lump of iron weighing 22.7 kg in a Japanese mountain range, a rock which is now on display at the National Science Museum in Tokyo. Several years after discovery, scientists learned it was an iron meteorite, so called because many meteorites have have large iron contents. However, about a quarter of the celestial rock has been cut out because a Japanese politician, Takeake Enomoto, Foreign Affairs Minister at the time, made the meteorite into three swords. A long one and two shorter ones. He presented these swords to the ...
- 562: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... produced, amplified, and channeled to the millions of teenagers trying to find themselves.. Therefore they had a great impact on what the teenagers in the fifties wanted to do and be. White southern churches defined rock as the Devils work. This labeled teenagers that listened to pop rock as being bad for society. It is the tone of these notes that interest me: full of yearning for a movement that could comprehend, in both senses gone all the American nightmares and injustices (Gitlin ...
- 563: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... desegregated. In show of his opposition, in 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied a federal court order, and with the aid of national guardsmen, attempted to prevent the admittance of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High school. President Dwight Eisenhower sent 1,000 federal paratroopers to enforce the desegregation and protect the "Little Rock Nine" for the entire school year. The national media event dramatized the seriousness of the desegregation for many Americans. Similar events occurred on September 30, 1962 at the University of Mississippi and in 1963 at ...
- 564: Young Goodman Brown
- ... arrogance. He believes that he is better than everyone else in that he alone can destroy evil. Brown then comes upon the ceremony which is setup like a perverted Puritan temple. The altar was a rock in the middle of the congregation and there were four trees surrounding the congregation with their tops ablaze, like candles. A red light rose and fell over the congregation which cast a veil of evil ... The "communion of your race" statement reflects to the irony of Brown's earlier statement that he comes from "a race of honest men and good Christians.") The leader than dips his hand in the rock to draw a liquid from it and "to lay the mark of baptism upon their foreheads". Brown than snaps out from his trance and yells "Faith! Faith! Look up to Heaven and resist the wicked ...
- 565: Egyptian Bedouins
- ... Hajj (journey to Mecca), a mature Muslim must visit Mecca in Saudi Arabia at least once in their life. A Muslim that visits Mecca seven times in their lifetime can visit the Dome of the Rock is Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock is the second most holy place in the world for Muslims. Most reputable literature written on the Bedouins were written by anthropologists that have spent time and traveled with them. One of these anthropologists, Joseph ...
- 566: Ocean Environment
- ... egg develops into a tiny larcal organism called a planulae. The planulae settles on the ocean bottom. The planule lands on whatever the currents allow it to. It will most likely end up on a rock, or on another coral. Eventually the planulae develops into a polyp. Each polyp builds a limestone skeleton which is attached to the surface of which the poyp has landed on, which can be either a rock or another coral. After the coral establishes itself, the upper part of the body becomes dome-shapes and develops a stomach and a mouth. Tentacles form around the mouth. The tentacles are used to draw ...
- 567: Subliminal Advertising 2
- ... the dark horse on the left side of Windows 95, which suggests a powerful image of a stallion. The next subliminal suggestion is a bird with its wings extended, portraying freedom. There is also a rock hero suggesting death, drugs, and rock music. Sex is also a hidden message on Windows 95 it shows a male figure poised in a classic missionary position over the figure of a female, her head back (Lechnar 8). There may be ...
- 568: Famous African Americans
- ... National Emigration Convention 1854 to aid black people's emigration to Africa and was the first black to attain rank of major in U.S. Army during American Civil War Bates, Daisy and the Little Rock Nine were U.S. civil rights figures. Bates was born in Huttig, Ark.and cofounder of Arkansas State Press in 1941. She was president of Arkansas chapter of NAACP in 1957 during Little Rock school integration crisis and while state guardsmen, at Governor Orville Faubus's request, she blocked black students from entering high school buildings. Bates stood firm with students and was arrested along with nine black students ...
- 569: Radon
- ... radon are abundant and are constantly being generated.(13) Radon is capable of easily traveling through rocks and soil.(14) The gas is also found dissolved in water, due to decay in the soil or rock below.(15) Radon in Water The risk from radon in water is much lower than the risk from radon in air. This is because the water must be heated or agitated to release the gas ... will allow enough of an opening to let radon gas enter. Open tops of block walls let the gas move from the foundation and release in an open area. Also certain building materials, such as rock used in interior construction of fireplaces, will release the gas. Domestic use of well water allows the gas to enter through showers and through agitation processes. Testing The EPA reports that radon has been found ...
- 570: Andy Warhol
- ... life with feelings even worse than the beginning of his life. After extensive research I found that Andy had much more to his life than I had originally expected. He was involved in the classic rock band The Velvet Underground, with famous singer Lou Reed. He actually even designed a few of the album covers. Most people remember the self-entitled album with the picture of a banana on it. Directly ...
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