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- 5141: Killer Earthquake in Istanbul, Turkey
- ... state due to the earthquake. If the building codes were brought out to inform the state about the cause the earthquake would do, not the extreme amount of people would have died in such a short amount of time. The building codes have a special regulation to inform what an earthquake would do; that was not the case in Istanbul, Turkey. On the other hand, the earthquake has moved nations closer ...
- 5142: The Chernobyl Accident
- ... for the drivers. Once the blocks were delivered, the workers needed to put them in place. Each weighed several dozen tons so eventually crane operators had to perform this task. This outer protective wall, 28 stories high, is placed around the perimeter and other walls connected to the Unit 3 reactor. A steel roof then completed the structure. The destroyed reactor was entombed in a 300,000-ton concrete structure known ...
- 5143: Adolf Hitler
- ... on April 20, 1889, in a small Austrian village called Braunau-am-Inn. Adlof was born a sickly child, his mother, Klara, watched over him night and day. Klara Hitler protected young Adolf from her short-tempered husband, Alois. Adolf grew into a thin, dark-haired, blue-eyed boy with an angular face (Twisted 63). At the age of 6, Hitler started school and showed excellent achievement in his classes. Outside ...
- 5144: The New World
- ... sold, they couldn’t hunt, fish, of grow crops on it. Indians believed that land is not a commodity to be shared. There shouldn’t be exclusive rights to ownership. "Although the growing season was short, habitants were able to produce subsistence crops by employing Indian farming techniques, and eventually they developed a modest export economy" (Out Of Many,53). The Indians showed the Europeans how to use the land and ...
- 5145: Effects of the Year 2000 Problem
- ... loose records; tongue depressors become scarce. Nuclear Power Aooouga! Aooouga! Control chip opens the wrong release valve. Radiation problems make Three Mile Island look like a picnic. Safety systems suffer small problems. Minor malfunctions cause short-term shutdowns. Stock up on candles and flashlight batteries. Military Defense systems weakened by software snafus. Global positioning satellites get lost, leaving the nation vulnerable. Some old battlefield equipment is junked rather than fixed. High ...
- 5146: The Vietnam Era
- ... shipped off to fight in a war when there was no direct threat against the U.S. Many people dodged the draft by going to college or by fleeing to Canada. My father told me stories of his friends that dodged the draft. One of his friends tattooed "f*** you" into the side of his hand so it would face front when he saluted, and he was rejected by the army ...
- 5147: To What Extent was Britain on the Verge of a Civil War in 1914?
- ... the government had taken an important step away from laissez-faire. By April the miners were back at work. After this, trade union militancy calmed down somewhat. Between 1913 and 1914 there was series of short strikes, and although the Triple Alliance of the National Union of Railwaymen, Transport Workers Federation and Miners Federation were planning a massive strike for 1914 -which George Dangerfield felt would have stood Britain on the ...
- 5148: World War I
- ... the army. Despite this show of preparedness, ignorance proved to be one of the biggest obstacles confronting mobilization. No one knew exactly how much steel or explosive powder the country was capable of producing. In short, no one really quite knew what to expect in the effort for war preparation. Before anything else, mobilizing people's minds for war, both in America and abroad, was an urgent task facing Washington. For ...
- 5149: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb And Its Use
- ... body even later. He says that it is the cruelest that there are still many people who are suffering from the aftereffect of radiation even more than fifty years later after the war.(127) In short, he affirms that the injury by the atomic bomb is the cruelest and most inhumane of all the weapons the international law prohibits to use. The atomic bomb indiscriminately killed the extraordinary citizens and has ...
- 5150: E-commerce
- ... may also entail relationships between two businesses, each of which has its own fulfillment and promotional objectives." Most analysts agree that business-to-business transactions are the most promising market for electronic commerce in the short term. Forrester Research estimates that business-to-business Internet commerce, now an $8 billion market, will grow to be a $105 billion market by 2000 and a $327 billion market by 2003. The business-to ...
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