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- 1571: Inventions of the Early 19th Century
- ... auto hadn't been invented yet! From barbed wire to keep our railways safe, to revolvers to keep our country safe, the nineteenth century marked a big boom in inventive history. Soon following all of these inventions, the civil war became a full blown testing field for all these inventions. Whether it was the coin operated hairbrush meant for public restrooms ... more entertaining, but they give us something to keep us occupied in this never-ending quest for - "perfectness?" Maybe in a hundred years someone will be looking back through their history books, searching though the libraries of the future and seeing our super-conductors, our computers, our High Definition t.v.s, our Super VHS video recorders, and our Digital Audio ... Published N.G.S N.G.S. (c)1971 Big Brother - The Works (617) 861-8976 Largest Text File Base (FBBS) Spam! Spam! Spam! (c)1990 Homework Helper! The Picture History of Inventions - Umberto Eco & G.B. Zorzoli (Translated from italian by Anthony Lawrence) Malmillan Co., NY. (c)1963 Various photocopied charts and pictures from other references were also used. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
- 1572: Hannibal 2
- ... handed over command of the Spanish armies to his brother Hasdrubal. He then led his troops north toward the Pyrenees Mountains and began one of the most famous journeys in history (Green 24). Hannibal's army included Libyans and Numidians from North Africa, Iberians and Celtiberians from Spain, and Gauls from Spain, France, and Italy.There were ninety thousand foot soldiers ... troops surrounded Hannibal's house. When they crashed into his house, Hannibal was dead on the floor. He had drank a cup of poison ( Green 61). Hannibal was important in history because of his military expertise. Although he had learned many of his tactics from his father and Alexander the Great, he will always be known for his maneuvers in battle ... He will also be remembered for being the first person to cross the Alps with elephants. Works Cited Green, Robert. Hannibal. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. Lancel, Serge. Carthage A History. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. Charles-Picard, Gilbert and Colette. Daily Life In Carthage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961.
- 1573: A Formal Application
- ... practice, planning and execution of a common bird. The climax of the poem comes when he refers to his act of violence as an "Audubon Crucifix". Through various examples in history he validates this unnecessary crucifix. "A Formal Application" rejoins the human race by immortalizing the importance of death. The structure of the poem is separated into three sections containing three ... feel like a "Modern Man". In the third stanza he goes even further in an attempt to relate his somewhat small scale kill to the few major slaughters of our history. First, with the word pious he again relates to religion by referring to his title as holy. Then he adds three examples of dramatic violence. The first of which is ... the Enola Gay and the Molotov Cocktail. The Enloa Gay is the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Japan. This again relates one of the greatest massacres in the history of the world to his mere rebellious violence. Through the speaker’s violent actions he feels superior to others despite his justifications being much more significant then his own ...
- 1574: Hypotheses of the Effects of Wolf Predation
- ... regulatory effect. They also state that wolf predation may affect the distribution and abundance of caribou populations. Bergerud and Ballard (1988), in their interpretation of the Nelchina caribou herd case history, said that during and immediately following a reduction in the wolf population, calf recruitment increased, which should result in a future caribou population increase. Gasaway et al. (1983) also indicated ... predation in limiting a moose population. Journal of Wildlife Management. 47(4): 977-988. Bergerud, A. T., and W. B. Ballard. 1988. Wolf predation on caribou: the Nelchina herd case history, a different interpretation. Journal of Wildlife Management. 52(2): 344- 357. Boutin, S.. 1992. Predation and moose population dynamics: a critique. Journal of Wildlife Management. 56(1): 116-127. Dale ... alone limit the moose population in Pukaskwa Park?: a comment. Journal of Wildlife Management. 52(3): 556-559. Van Ballenberghe, V.. 1985. Wolf predation on caribou: the Nelchina herd case history. Journal of Wildlife Management. 49(3): 711-720.
- 1575: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... of a more complete collection of historical facts, a more calm political atmosphere, and a more objective attitude." (2) Barnes had discovered that a more nearly accurate version of the history of the First World War was only possible after the fighting had ended and the emotional excesses had lessened. He was unable to predict that similar corrections of Allied propaganda ... he was retried. This time, in a Karlsruhe court, Judge Eva-Marie Wollentin sentenced him to two years imprisonment - in what has been described as "the freest state in German history. The Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung spoke for many of Germany's modern editors in an editorial, intoning that it was a just sentence. "There was no reason to suspend the sentence ... 12) Burn It! Fahrenheit 451 trends become most apparent after Germar Rudolf published an anthology titled, Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte: Ein Handbuch über strittige Fragen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Foundations of Contemporary History: A Handbook on controversial questions of the Twentieth century). Rudolf, forced to use pseudonyms after publishing Das Rudolf Gutachten (The Rudolf Report), his own scientific analysis of the purported ...
- 1576: Virtual Reality Technology and Society
- ... 1 Inspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND VIRTUAL REALITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Video Display Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Audio Output Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tactile Response Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Interactive Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Computers and Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE HISTORY OF VIRTUAL REALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Virtual Reality in the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Virtual Reality in the Present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Virtual Reality in the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 New ... 7)," is examined. To achieve this end we will be looking at the definitions of virtual reality, the technology behind virtual reality, a survey of virtual reality, including it's history, present state, and future forms, and finally the impact of virtual reality on our society. WHAT IS VIRTUAL REALITY? Definitions and Terms There are many varying definitions and terms for ... software has been one of the major factors prohibiting wide spread availability of virtual reality technology, recent breakthroughs are beginning to promise dramatically lower prices in the near future. THE HISTORY OF VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual Reality in the Past Who first started developing virtual realities, and why? The answer to that question takes us outside of computer technology. Computer technologists ...
- 1577: Breast Cancer In Women
- ... material within. Among the clinical test that are done, some women are able to know if they have a chance of getting the disease by simply tracing back in their history. Up to 10 percent of female breast cancers are because of inheritance of an altered, or mutated, copy go one or two genes. (Health News, MSNBC) On the NBC news program 20/20, an interview was done on a family with a history of breast cancer. Two sisters, Lori and Julie, and there cousin Staci are all waiting to turn forty and see if they are able to make it through their family ... perfectly healthy. Julie is still deciding whether or not to have the genetic test too. (20/20 with Barbara Walters) This story shows the inevitable fate for women with a history of breast cancer and what some chose to do. Not all women take the risk of having both breast completely remove. This was only one decision made.
- 1578: Ida B. Wells 2
- ... had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. - Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells was an important figure in Black American History. She was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862. Wells was able to gain an education and, later, became a journalist for various Negro papers. Through her writing, she was ... White males. Although Ida B. Wells had gender relations and her biological sex working on her side, she still had to face the greatest evil of that time in American history. She had 4 to fight against one of the most hostile forms of prejudice that has ever existed in this country. Ida B. Wells was a woman who dramatically altered race relations in our country and should be honored and respected as a phenomenal civil rights activist. She kept hope alive in the African-American history and motivated others to work just as hard as she to guarantee a safe environment for all Americans.
- 1579: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... Net, can be used to "publish" material that would traditionally appear in journals, magazines, posters, books, television and even on film. 2. It is also essential to give a brief history on the internet. 3.The U.S. government is now trying to pass bills to prevent misuse of the Net. II. In order to understand the need for the ever ... Ritchie, at AT&T Bell Laboratories, in 1969 for use on minicomputers" ("UNIX" n.p.). To understand the background of the controversy, it is also necessary to give a brief history on the Internet. The Internet was created about twenty years ago in an attempt to connect a U.S. Defense Department network called the ARPAnet and various other radio and ... the United States. According to Corn-Reverse, "it has been suggested that, ‘on-line systems give people far more genuinely free speech and free press than ever before in human history’" (Corn-Reverse 71). Rheingold predicts that "Heavy-handed attempts to impose restrictions on the unruly but incredibly creative anarchy of the Net could kill the spirit of cooperative knowledge- ...
- 1580: French Revolution
- French Revolution French Revolution, one of the major revolutions in European history. The revolution marks a turning point in Frence history and in world history in general. Forms of government, morals, ideologies, and social development were greatly affected by it in all Europe and even in U.S. The beginning of the Frence Revolution ...
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