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- 1421: Peter The Great 3
- ... a landmark: a 400 foot tower surmounted by a ornamented tower made of wood that stretched more than 197 feet into the sky. Also, in 1710, Trezzini made the plans for a summer palace, 2 stories tall, with 14 rooms, located where the Neva River and the Fontanka Canal meet. He also designed 2 winter palaces in 1711, next to the Admirality, which were stone and brick (4:100-101). Later ... time on, Czars were no longer buried in the church of the Archangel Michael in the Kremlin, but laid to rest in identical white marble coffins alongside the Great Peter (4:106-107). In 29 short years, Peter the Great had revolutionized his land and turned it forcibly toward the west. Many of his people did not understand him and considered him a devil. Yet his love for his country and ...
- 1422: Billy The Kid
- ... remains a heated controversy throughout America. Billy the Kid was born in New York City on November 23, 1859 to William and Kathleen McCarty Bonney and given the name William H. Bonney (There are other stories of his birth but this one is the most reliable). The first recorded killing committed by Billy the Kid was on August 17, 1877. This is also where he got his nickname Kid . The story ... It is reported that Billy had been shot in the back while others report that Garrett had shot him right in the heart. Either way the brief career of this outlaw ended in a very short time.
- 1423: Billy Sunday
- ... doctor prepared a syrup that Mary Jane fed to Billy every day for three weeks. Miraculously, Billy gained strength and became a normal active child. Luck changed for Billy s family, but only for a short time. His mother remarried and had two more children. Sadly, the second child, a girl, died in a fire when she was three. Not long after, Mary Jane s second husband died also. These untimely deaths left a mark on young Billy that stayed with him for the remainder of his life. In a short autobiography written for The Ladies Home Journal, he begins with the words I never saw my father. In the first few pages of this revealing tale he recalls ten deaths in addition to that of ... the baseball field he learned that his legs could do more than quickly get him under fly balls, they enabled him to steal bases. After he left the orphanage, he went back home for a short while. He then left for the city of Nevada determined to make it on his own. He worked for a Civil War veteran and his wife. Colonel and Mrs. John Scott took him in, ...
- 1424: Brave New World
- ... of the infection and could some-what see. Huxley resumed his studies at Oxford, and accomplished a degree in 1916. At first Huxley tried to be journalist. But in 1921, he began writing poetry and short stories. There after, he began writing essays and novels. He received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the year 1959. His most famous book, "Brave New ...
- 1425: A "Full House" in the "Hand" of Education
- ... university, if they even do at all. She said that, "class differences were boundaries no one wanted to face or talk about"(87). But she believes that it is important to share experiences and personal stories in order to identify and connect with people from similar backgrounds. She says, "It is crucial that those among us who resist and rebel, who survive and succeed, speak openly and honestly about our lives ... We Real Cool' that it might seem cool to not have responsibilities, such as school and a family to take care of, but that without an education, those people are as good as dead. Her short, but very frank poem informs college professors of the responsibility they have to make sure students don't end up like the 'dead hooky players' in the poem. In view of these insights, college professors ...
- 1426: Triceratops Hottidus: “Horrible Three-horned Face”
- ... Triceratops was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur. It walked on all four sturdy legsand had three horns on its face long with a large bony plate projecting from the back of its skull(a frill). One short horn above its parrot-like beak and two longer horns (over 3 feet or 1 meter long) above its eyes probably provide protection from predators. The horns were possibly used in mating rivalry and rituals ... animal ever discovered. Its head was nearly one -third as long as its body. Triceratops hatched eggs. Triceratops was about 30 feet long, 10 feet tall, and weed about 6- 12 tons. It had a short, pointed tail, a bulky body, column-like legs with hoof-like claws, and a bony neck frill rimmed with bony bumps. It had a parrot-like beak, many cheek teeth, and powerful jaws. WHEN TRICERATOPS ... It probably ate cycads, palms, and other low-lying plants with its tough beak. Triceratops could chew well with its cheek teeth(like other Ceratopsians, but unlike most other dinosaurs). LOCOMOTION: Triceratops walked on four short legs; it was a relatively slow dinosaur. Dinosaur speeds are estimate using their morphology (characteristics like leg length and estimated body mass) and fossilized trackways. LOCATION AND DISCOVERY OF FOSSILS: Many triceratops fossils have ...
- 1427: Comets
- ... is a region that was first proposed by the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1951. Seeing that Oort's cloud of comets did not really explain the reason for the population of comets with short orbital periods (making complete orbits around the sun in less than 200 years), Kuiper thought that a belt of comets probably existed outside the orbit of Neptune within the range of 30 to 50 astronomical ... from comets. Most of the comets that are seen from Earth only come by once every few millions of years. Some do, however, come back within around 200 years. These types of comets are called short-period comets. These comets, which have shorter orbits, are believed by scientists to come from the Kuiper belt. The reason why this is believed is because there are some small, icy objects that orbit near and beyond Pluto that have been detected. Since the orbits of short-period comets are shorter, they pass the Sun more often, which makes it start to disappear. The ice and gasses start evaporating, which leaves the dust and other solids left. When this happens, meteors ...
- 1428: The Kondratieff Wave
- ... you may have a little of a starting advantage when the phase one of the next K-wave starts. Mankind sometimes tends to “forget himself”, basing their actions on current happenings and with a relatively short view. Thinking that because of “modern” technology, politics, and economics they can shape the environment and its behavior. There is a particular phrase in the introduction of the Kondratieff wave, that believe hits the head ... vast explosion of knowledge and technological advances of the past couple of centuries, mankind has become oblivious to the cyclical nature of the universe, believing that industrial progress is continuous...” A perfect example of how short viewed is man kind is the El niño and niña weather factor. Until recently it was believed to be a spontaneous event. None the less studies have showed that the El Niño Factor or weather ... in the business plan. In order to come up with the proper curve, planing and budgeting has to be made through the Isis strategy results process studied at an earlier time. This process will, in short time, give you the proper number to implement the plan. The curve also indicates the minimum acceptable cost reduction rate. It is the basis for the setting of the prices since the price curve ...
- 1429: Australia
- ... the ground, spikes erect, when disturbed. The heavily armored echidna has small spines on the back of its head and long spines on the upper surface and sides of its body. Its clawed limbs are short and powerful. The male has a retractable spur on each hind limb that releases a weak poison. It is from this that the animal gets its name--echidna is derived from a Greek word for ... Many still live in New Guinea, among them the birds of paradise, bowerbirds, and spangled drongo. The flightless, nomadic emu is the largest native bird and the second largest in the world. It accelerates in short bursts to 30 miles (48 kilometers) per hour and may surpass 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) in height. It is found almost anywhere in inland Australia. Having laid from 7 to 20 green eggs ... white cockatoos, gang-gangs, and the glossy black cockatoo. The illegal smuggling of parrots out of Australia remains a problem. Many seabirds and waders are migratory, even reaching Asia and New Zealand. The muttonbird, or short-tailed shearwater, follows a 19,000-mile (31,000-kilometer) figure-eight loop between Japan and Bass Strait, managing to summer in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Sea animals. Australia's tropical coral ...
- 1430: The Native American Attitude Toward the Land
- ... strong worship of the land, and belief of the great spirits of the animals. Their strong oral tradition of the past events shows how they loved the land because of the meaning found in the stories based on the land. As show by the story "From the Houses of Magic" the teller is strengthened by "houses of magic." "The strong night is shaking me/Just as once before he did/When ... just demonstrates the strength in their beliefs. As the oral tradition centers on the land as a base, "Spring Song" shows the strong feeling of the earth in the passing of the oral tradition in stories. "As my eyes/search/the prairie/I feel the summer/in the spring"(37). This is an explanation of how the Native American people used the oral tradition to provide a meaningful explanation of events in their soul that have to do with the power of word in their society. As the people of the past show the ways in which they explain the eventful lives, their stories, myths, are kept alive to show the future the way to their true selves. They also have shown a strong worship of the land. In this, they show a strong movement to the guidance ...
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