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- 25281: Plate Tectonics
- Plate Tectonics The main features of plate tectonics are: The Earth's surface is covered by a series of crustal plates. The ocean floors are continually, moving, spreading from the center, sinking at the edges, and being regenerated. Convection currents beneath the plates move the crustal plates ... these mid-oceanic ridges. Seismic studies show that the mid-oceanic ridges experience an elevated number of earthquakes. All these observations indicate intense geological activity at the mid-oceanic ridges. Geomagnetic Anomalies Peridically, the Earth's magnetic field reverses. New rock formed from magma records the orientation of Earth's magnetic field at the time the magma cools. Study of the sea floor with magnometers revealed "stripes" of alternating magnetization parallel to the mid-oceanic ridges. This is evidence for continuous formation of new ...
- 25282: Black Plague
- Living in Europe in the middle of the 1300 s would have been heartbreaking and dreadful. Not only were the living conditions very poor but there was an unknown disease that was wiping out a large percentage of European population. One cannot imagine the fear ... it was far too beyond them. This unknown disease is known as the Bubonic Plague. The plague was passed among many rodents by fleas. Most of the rodents were rats. Fleas living on the rat s blood would eject the disease into the rat causing it to die quickly. When there were no rats left around, the flea would search for a new host, such as a human. When an infected ... delirium and death characterize the plague. The bacilli collect in the lymph nodes, mostly the ones in the armpits and groin. The nodes swell and become extremely painful. These swellings are called buboes and that s where they got the name bubonic. Not everyone who gets the plague dies. During the 1300 s it was really slight to find a survivor. Sometimes the buboes will burst and drain, and the ...
- 25283: Continental Congress
- In 1781, the Continental Congress ratified a weaker version of the Articles of Confederation. The ratification put all of the thirteen states under one central government. The Articles reserved to each state “it’s sovereignty, freedom, and independence” and established a government in which Americans were citizens of their own states first and then of the United States second. By the creation of this central government, it essentially possessed ... the Articles of Confederation had been passed, from 1784 and beyond; the gross income from exports to Great Britain had plummeted while the population of the United States continued to rise. By the late 1780’s, the states had fallen behind nearly 80 percent in providing the funds that Congress requested to operate the government and honor the national debt. The statistical chart in Document B shows that under the Articles of Confederation it had not profited the states because of the insufficiency of the government’s control. In addition, the inability of the central government to tax goods and the lack of economic support by the states made it extremely difficult for the central government to fund it’s agencies ...
- 25284: Black Civil Rights
- ... bubbled up from different social groups. Young people in particular, most of them students, enlisted in the effort to change restricted patterns deeply rooted in American life. The Black Civil Rights movement in the 1950's and 60's was a political, legal and social struggle of the black americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. In 1962, the civil rights movement accelerated. James Meredith, a black air force veteran ... protesters arranged massive march on Washington D.C. to lobby for the end of segregation. The high point of this day was the address by Martin Luther King, Jr. King was long interested in Ghandi's theoroy of nonviolent protest. Despite the many advances by the black civil rights' leaders, racist tensions still are apparent in today's society. Martin Luther King was shot and assasinated for his civil rights ...
- 25285: Countess Elizabeth Bathory Out
- ... her intriguing personality, physical attributes, political intuitiveness, and her distorted moral/family values, Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary has led the life of one of the most fascinating yet neurotic leaders in all of Transylvania’s history. I. Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary, born in 1560, retained a childhood of sheer disgust hidden behind the curtain of royalty. A. During her childhood, she witnessed horrific trials and sentences carried out under her family’s officials. B. Such experiences resulted in seizures that were believed at that time to make her neurotic. C. At the age of 14, she delivered an illegitimate child. The following year she was married to ... Some bodies were eventually thrown to wolves. IV. Torturing techniques written in her diary as well corpses that were eventually found lead up to her two trials in 1612. A. Witnesses, as well as Elizabeth’s other helpers, stated all they knew when they were present. B. One found her diary covered in names and techniques used. C. Helpers were to have their fingers pulled off and then decapitated. D. ...
- 25286: The Beginning Of The Universe
- ... above absolute zero. In the future, the universe may end up in two possible situations. From the initial Big Bang, the universe attained a speed of expansion. If that speed is greater than the universe's own escape velocity, then the universe will not stop its expansion. Such a universe is said to be open. If the velocity of expansion is slower than the escape velocity, the universe will eventually reach ... Inc., 1987. p. 128. 2. Ibid., p. 130. 3. Joseph Silk, The Big Bang, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989. p. 60. 4. Terry Holt, The Universe Next Door, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. p. 326. 5. Ibid., p. 327. 6. Charles J. Caes, Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe, USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. p. 72. 7. John Gribbin, In Search Of The Big Bang, New York: Bantam Books, 1986. p. 273. BIBLIOGRAPHY Boslough, John. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Caes, J. Charles. Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe. USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. Gribbin, John. In Search Of The Big Bang. New York: ...
- 25287: Biography Of Eugene Victor Deb
- ... and the Baltimore & Ohio cut their wages. Thousands of workers left their working places and made mass disorder . These events confused and stunned Eugene Debs. In 1878 Gene become associate editor of the Locomotive Firemen s magazine and in 1880 he was promoted to the magazine s editor as well as treasurer and grand secretary of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. However, the union effort was not successful first few years. In 1880 Debs was elected for the City Clerk in Terre Haute ... Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and next year he found the American Railway Union. The American Railway Union is the labor organization was welcome to all railroad workers. The first major strike against James J. Hill s Great Northern Railroad had been won on eighteen s day of struggle. But later that year, the union was destroyed in the Pullman Co. struggle. Debs was sent to jail for six months in ...
- 25288: Constantinople The Gateway Cit
- Constantinople: The Gateway City Constantinople was built in 330 CE, by the first Christian emperor, Constantine. Constantinople ruled much of the deserted Roman Empire many years after Constantine's death. Constantinople can be described as a Gateway City by its geographic features, the cultural influences, and the historical influences upon the rest of the world. Constantinople was positioned upon a major seaport called Byzantium ... speak Greek. (Doc. C) With Constantine being a Christian, he believed that Christianity was the best religion for his city. Constantine was looking for the best for his city. Many of the structures during Constantine's rule are considered architectural wonders of the world. Of those structures, the Hagia Sophia was built. The building itself has been a Christian church, a Muslim mosque, and a museum. (Doc. C) Across the street ... enough to hold out for over two centuries in Constantinople. Some of the structures of Constantinople have been standing for close to two thousand years. Geographical features, cultural influences, and historic influences all affected Constantinople's success as a city. The moving of the capital had many changes for the Roman Empire, some for the better, others for the worst. Constantinople had many great buildings that were of major importance ...
- 25289: Bill Gates
- William (Bill) H. Gates III is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading provider of software for personal computer. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Mary ... Gates began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. BASIC was first developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the ... role in the technical development of new products. Much of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in contact with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail. Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission is continuously to advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, ...
- 25290: Communism An Overview
- ... the Communist rule in the Soviet Union had many problems. Early on the governments very existence was challenged repeatedly by its enemies in the country. After the Communist Party emerged victorious it rebuilt the nation's economy and trained the Russian people for industrialized life. Later the efforts moved to transforming the backward country into a leading industrial nation and a first rate military power. This all had to be done ... of all available human and material resources. The system was labeled totalitarianism. Other people called it Stalinism, named after Joseph Stalin, the leader who controlled the government of the USSR for many years after Lenin's death. Joseph Stalin's rule in no way resembled the utopia that Marx and Engels envisioned. Even 30 years after Stalin's death the USSR was still ruled by command, not consent. This led to the collapse of ...
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