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- 2661: "How Is Helium Produced?"
- ... areas natural gas contains a relatively high concentration of Helium which has accumulated as a result of radioactive decay of heavy elements within the earth's crust. Helium is supplied to distribution centres throughout the world in liquid form in large cryogenic containers. The Helium is filled into liquid containers, gas cylinders and cylinder packs as necessary. History of Helium Production: Government involvement in helium conservation dates to the Helium Act ... Federal Helium Program; analyzes the choices that Congress faced in terminating the program; reviews the issues that the National Academy of Sciences will study, and summarizes H.R. 4168. Federal interest in helium began with World War I when its military value as an inert lifting gas was recognized by the Army and Navy. The Bureau of Mines' involvement in the Helium Program dates back to passage of the Helium Act ...
- 2662: Benito Mussolini
- ... of the Socialist newspaper Avanti, and in 1914 he started his own Socialist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia. At this time he wrote a novel, then translated into English as the Cardinal’s Mistress. During World War I he served for nearly 2 years as private in the infantry. After the war there was much poverty and industrial unrest in Italy. Mussolini’s political views were changing during this time. The desire grew in him to be the strong man of Italy who would vesture order, ...
- 2663: RISE AND FALL OF THE HITLER REICHT
- ... in on the Austrian government sessions . Hitler speaks of his life in Vienna as "five years in which I had In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich. Life was not much better there until the First World War started in 1914. While many people were frightened and sad at the thought of a world war, Hitler was delighted. He held the rank of corporal, and in forty-seven b On October 13th 1918, a month before Germany surrendered to the Allies, his good luck ran out. When Hitler ...
- 2664: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1894 he founded the Natal Indian Congress to agitate for Indian rights. Yet he remained loyal to the British Empire. In 1899, during the Boer War, he raised an ambulance corps and served the South African government. In 1906 he gave aid against the Zulu revolt. Later in 1906, however, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He was imprisoned twice. Yet in World War I he again organized an ambulance corps for the British before returning home to India in 1914. Gandhi's writings and devout life won him a mass of Indian followers. They followed him almost ...
- 2665: Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact or Fiction?
- ... More today than ever, hundreds of thinkers, theologians, and scientists have tried to answer why there are or whether there aren't UFOs. According to some, the speculation that UFOs are alien spacecrafts from another world is an absurd and foolish proposal. Others vehemently disagree and assert that extraterrestrial life is not only possible, but such life forms may be superior, technologically advanced beings who visit our Earth regularly. Are these ... saw (Life 138)." Later on, a William Spaulding of the Ground Saucer Watch Inc., put these Trent photos under intense computer scrutiny and came out with the same conclusion: It was no hoax (Life). In World War Two, Allied and Axis air pilots witnessed these eerie luminous balls that would either chase planes or zip in and out of the planes' courses. Such oddities were to be eventually called "foo fighters." ...
- 2666: Racial Propaganda In The Third
- ... that “Europe will have defeated this threat only when the last Jew has left our part of the planet” (1). Hitler himself at the outbreak of “The German people will not be destroyed in this war, rather the Jew” (1). The Nazi leaders would spout out so-called scientific evidence that the only way to ensure the survival of the Aryan race is that of racial purity. Over and over through ... races to protect the purity of the races, even at the cost of genocide towards the Jews. The Nazis referred back to a so-called German golden age, “before the Jew began to run the world through finance and trickery.” (1) The propaganda did not stop at speeches and pamphlets. Children’s books also spread the Nazi message of hate. The book The Toadstool, is a collection of very short stories ... through his use of propaganda the homogenous society he had dreamed of, albeit for only 5 or 6 years. As disturbing and sick as his methods were, they were nonetheless extremely effective. Even during the War and after the Final Solution was put into effect, it was still seen as a racial war to the Germans. They contended that Roosevelt and Churchill were just lackeys of the Jewish businessmen. They ...
- 2667: Summary of 1984
- ... did, but he was sure there must be. The Party was reconstructing society as a whole, and no one seemed to notice. it was done so systematically and effectively, it was hard to believe the world had ever been otherwise. Children were raised to love Big Brother (the human face the Party took on). They were taught to turn anyone in who showed signs of deviation from the Party, even their ... freedom) were all nonexistent. People had no way of expressing anything, because there were no words to do so with. That way,any possible threat to the Party could be wiped out of existence. The world had been divided into three large countries: Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania. Oceania was the country in which Winston lived, and the Party controlled. The three countries were constantly at war with one another. Oceania may be allies with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia one month, and the exact opposite the next. But whoever Oceania was at war with at the moment, they insisted ...
- 2668: The Events Connected to the Louisiana Purchase
- ... They explored from Lake Superior down the Mississippi from 1658 to 1660. Ten more expeditions, including that of Lewis and Clark, would follow over the next century. Although these expeditions represented several of the Old World countries, France gained control of it. The geographic position of the Louisiana Territory was very important to the strengthening of the United States. Due to its large impact on other countries, the Louisiana Purchase helped ... United States. After France sold the land, they were out of North America for good. This was both good and bad for the French. It was bad because Napoleon Bonaparte’s dream of conquering the world was coming to an end. It was good for France because they no longer had to defend the land. Because of France’s departure from North America, the French/British war was no longer near the United States and took away any chance that the United States might get caught up in the war. The Purchase added enough land to the United States that some ...
- 2669: King Tut
- ... status, either favorable or unfavorable, for the counter that lands on them. Winning this game allows the deceased to overcome any difficulties involved during his journey and to "pass" safe and sound into the next world For that very reason, the deceased brings his favorite game with him in his tomb, for it will help bring about resurrection. Tutankhamen died before he was twenty, as his mummy shows, and was buried ... antechamber. But the tomb, resealed and eventually covered over with rubble, was not touched again until modern times-although by 1000BC every other sepulcher in the Valley had been robbed. Few sites in the ancient world held as much wealth as the Royal Valley, and nearby villagers made a profession of robbing the tombs almost before the doors were sealed. the laborers who built the tombs- and even high officials- shared ... in 1922. The son in law of the fabulous Queen Nefertiti, Tut was a singularly unimportant ruler about whom very little is known. Nonetheless, because Tut’s tomb was found nearly intact, it remains the world’s most exciting archeological discovery- and the greatest testament yet found to the quality of ancient Egyptian life. The British archeologist Howard Carter was nearly alone in his faith that Tut’s tomb could ...
- 2670: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... an enormous step forward; they provided a means of input, output, and memory storage on a massive scale. For more than 50 years following their first use, punched-card machines did the bulk of the world's business computing and a good portion of the computing work in science (Chposky, 73). By the late 1930s punched-card machine techniques had become so well established and reliable that Howard Hathaway Aiken, in ... by card punch and electric typewriter. It was slow, requiring 3 to 5 seconds for a multiplication, but it was fully automatic and could complete long computations without human intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and ...
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