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- 991: The Boston Massacre
- ... with his musket, and carried on at the Custom House.5 The colonists who witnessed this attack began to throw snowballs at the soldier in support of the apprentice. One of the colonists threw a rock filled snowball, and hit a soldier in the eye. During all of this, some of the colonists began teasing and taunting the officers, daring them to shoot. During the madness, one of the officers misunderstood ...
- 992: The Invention of the Airplane
- ... two brothers fashioned a 5-foot biplane kite. By flying the kite in the breeze, the two brothers were able to show that twisting the wings had the intended effect in causing the kite to roll. The identification of an effective method of lateral control is universally recognized as being one of the most important contributions the Wrights made to aviation, and was the idea protected by their patent issued May ...
- 993: The 60s: Decade of Challenge and Change
- ... the music and art, but it also was very important to the peace and against the government. It was held in New York City with over 400,000 people in attendance. It featured many famous rock bands of its time. It was days of sadness and happiness. This was the place to be that summer. The music of the sixties helped to change the way people saw things. It helped to ...
- 994: The California Gold Rush
- ... tedious work and the percentage of finding gold was low. In March of 1853 Edward H Mattison of Connecticut invented the hydraulic mining method. With this a high-pressure water hose was forced onto the rock which withered it into silt which was then panned for gold. This method was more effected, but the drawback of it was that it destroyed and reshaped the landscape into loose gravel. Californias landscape ...
- 995: Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack
- ... to the building of the USS Monitor, the USS New Ironsides was built. "It was the strongest ship ever built by the Northern Navy" (Lavy 4). Wooden ships were now obsolete. Ironclad ships began to roll out of ship yards more often than their wooden counterparts. "The invention of ironclads in the Civil War set examples for the future of ship building in the United States" (Lavy 5). The ironclads were ...
- 996: Watergate Scandal
- ... played a big part in the scandal was G. Gordon Liddy. He was the spymaster for the CRP, leader of Dr. Fielding, and Watergate break-ins. There were many other corrupt congressmen who played a roll in the scandal of the century. This hurt President Nixon and destroyed his dreams, but why did he do it? Well when he was a kid growing up and when he was a campaigning to ...
- 997: African - American Civil Rights
- ... equal" educational institutions were allowable under the constitution. The ruling was quickly tested in September 1957 when Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas called in the national guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School. Eisenhower, despite little inclination towards promoting integration, sent in federal troops to protect the students. That same year Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since the Reconstruction. The bill, which ...
- 998: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... many of these movements. Now he was the father figure to many in the non-mainstream world. While teaching at his school of poetry in Naropa, Colorado, Ginsberg became involved in protests against the nearby Rock Flats Nuclear Weapons Factory. During the Summer of 1978 he was arrested for preventing a shipment nuclear waste from reaching its destination and for numerous other protests against the facility (Miles 474). From these experiences ...
- 999: Reconstuction
- ... with the knowledge they needed to obtain the jobs to get the money to pay for the schools. It was an endless cycle, they were stuck, completely stuck. The free blacks were stuck between a rock and a hard place. So what did they do? They did what they were forced to do, and it was terribly difficult. They had to work the land of the ex-slave owners for little ...
- 1000: African Americans in the Civil War
- ... supported by Lincoln and in fact looked down upon. However, this began to happen throughout many of the Union Armies and became so common that Lincoln could not ignore it. Lincoln was caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand the reality was obvious that the war was not going to end and that the Union Armies needed more manpower. 21On the other, Lincoln knew that the public ...
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