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4611: The Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project: ... capabilities of the concept in war. At the head of this committee was Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. About a month later, an event happened that would change the history books forever. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at about 7:50 in the mourning. This brought America into the war and the Manhattan Project was on its way. The ...

4612: The Cold War: Conflicting Aims and Policies of Rival Powers: ... of the Cold War due to these immense acts of aggression. The period in the United States following World War 2 could more aptly be named American Hysteria rather than history. As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this than McCarthy's Communist witch hunt of ...

4613: Attack of the Normans In 1066: ... the various groups that settled over the course of the next few decades were not a single, homogenous unit, although most--perhaps even all--spoke a similar language. In his history, the Venerable Bede tells us of Angles, Saxons and Jutes (from Jutland), but these were by no means the only tribes who descended on Britain. There is scant evidence available ...

4614: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles: ... dark keeps, more like bomb shelters in their attempts at impermeability hardly coincide with the idea of the lofty, elegant, ethereal Cinderella lookalikes with banners flying from every pinnacle. Romanticized history has done a disservice to the castle, making it seem to be something it is not. However, even a study of the most utilitarian castle cannot banish a little pang ...

4615: The Discovery of The New World Changed European Conceptions, Views, and Material Conditions: ... tobacco were imported. Europeans were enjoying the medley of foods they had to choose from. As far as dietary habits are concerned, no other series of events in all world history brought as many significant change as did European expansion. (Schlesinger, p. 82) Some problems in society stemmed from the fact that Europeans believed that Native Americans gave them syphilis. Some ...

4616: The Holocaust: Tragedy in the 20th Century: ... not end until 1945. One individual said, “It is far easier to extinguish a man, than to extinguish his memories.” For most, the Holocaust is already a distant piece of history. For the survivors, the Holocaust was yesterday....and today. Rosewood was a small little town in western Florida. It had three churches, a general store, a Masonic lodge, a school ...

4617: Creative Writing: X-Men: ... so he constantly tries to escape his shadow. He gets brainwashed into being a bad guy, recovers to lead a group of good guys, and gets brainwashed again. Great family history, no? Oh yes, there may be another brother around somewhere. The X-Men are all mutants, Homo Sapien Superior, the next evolutionary step for human beings, a minority group of ...

4618: Compare And Cantrast WEB Du Bo: ... in 1894. His work as an editor of The Crisis, the organ of the NAACP, from 1910 to 1934 was perhaps the most sustained and uncompromising single effort in the history of racial protests in America. As early as 1909 he had projected an "Encyclopedia Africana" that would preserve and expand the store of knowledge about Black people. Encyclopedia of the ...

4619: The Chernobyl Accident: ... Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant and measures were being taken to eliminate the consequences of the accident. (Time 39) Thus began by far the gravest crisis in the troubled 32-year history of commercial atomic power. The fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was ...

4620: Cicero: ... claim to originality in these works. Writing to Atticus, he says of them "They are transcripts; I simply supply words, and I've plenty of those." His importance in the history of philosophy is as a transmitter of Greek thought. In the course of this role, he gave Rome and, therefore, Europe its philosophical vocabulary.

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