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- 11: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... and was stationed in the central Pacific as an airplane armorer and gunner. After the war, the G.I. Bill offered him a college education, so he studied painting at Montana State College, now Montana State University, and took ceramics courses during his junior year, graduating in 1951. Voulkos had a natural aptitude for clay and soon was winning awards, including top honors at the ... That fall, he returned to Helena, and was resigned to selling his ceramics to make a living until the fateful call came from Sheets. "I was just a hick from Montana, so coming to L.A was a big thing for me," Voulkos remembers. "When I got that job, it was my big break. I didn't have to do ...
- 12: A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
- ... athlete who has reached, and only just reached, his optimum in age, in physical vigor, in trained agility."(Pg. 217, Arving). This is a good comparison. Take for example Joe Montana. Montana hit his prime age in the Super Bowl and was unquestionably the best quarterback ever at that time. But after a few injuries and a few more years added to his life even the great Montana started to die in football. Even though he wasn't what he was before a time he could come out and just for that night prove he really is ...
- 13: Copper and Molybdenum Deposits in the United States
- ... of numerous copper mines of which more than 90% were in the Lake Superior area giving an important advantage to the Union armies. Major copper production districts then shifted to Montana and Arizona in the early 1890's. Production increased to reach peak levels of 900,000 tons a year during World War I and in 1970 1,600,000 tons ... has a median size of .56 million t and an average grade of 1.7% Cu. The next type of non-porphyry copper deposit is a vein located in Butte, Montana. Over 8 million t of copper has been produced at this mine in addition to large amounts of silver, gold, zinc, manganese, and lead. Vein deposits are associated with replacement ... strong association with thick evaporate beds. The final example of a non-porphyry copper deposit are the magmatic segregations or disseminations in mafic rocks located in Duluth, Minnesota and Stillwater, Montana. The Duluth mine is characterized by a Cu-Ni-PGE type which includes erratically distributed sulfides associated with the basal portions of layered intrusions in a cratonal rift zone. ...
- 14: Fredric Remington
- ... On September 1878 he enrolls in Yale's School of Art, he attends 3 semesters. On febuary1880 his father Seth dies. In the summer of 1881 he vacations in the Montana territory it is his first trip to the west he falls in love with the west and their ways of life and he starts drawing cowboys and other western people ... In 1886 he attends Art Students League, NY. Then he travels to the southwest and learns and studies it and does many illustrations. In 1887 he travels to North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and western Canada he does an art exhibits for the first time. In 1888 his illustrations appear in Theodore Roosevelt's serialized articles for Century Magazine. It was later ...
- 15: LOUIS RIEL
- ... was knowledged in the government. It was obvious since he formed his own government. Riel would have been an asset to the Canadian government. In 1884, Gabriel Dumont rode to Montana and asked Riel to defend the Métis once again. Riel returned to help the natives once more. Riel was risking capture when he returned. This was a very noble act on his part. Instead of staying nice and safe in Montana, Riel gave up his safety for the Métis. Riel decided to try an unviolent approach this time instead of starting an all out rebellion. Riel and the Métis drew up ...
- 16: Dinosaurs
- ... have been discovered in Mongolia and France. Fragments that are presumed to be of dinosaur eggs have also been found in Brazil, Portugal, Tanzania, and in the United States, Colorado, Montana, and Utah. In Montana, Utah, and Alberta, Canada, fossils of unhatched dinosaur eggs have been discovered. This evidence indicates egg- laying reproduction in dinosaurs, like most modern reptiles. A few scientists believe that some ...
- 17: The Brady Law
- ... wishing to purchase a gun. This 5-4 decision would be easy to overturn in the court decides to revisit it later. This case was brought up by sheriffs in Montana and Arizona who said that running background checks would take valuable time away from other law-enforcement duties. This is a valid argument in less densely populated areas of the ... more police officers and they can afford to put a few on duty doing these checks. In large cities you can easily blend in because of its size. Places like Montana and Arizona don't necessarily need to run checks on every person, but ones they have not seen before in their small community or ones that look suspicious should be ...
- 18: Alberta
- ... surface. Alberta is bounded on the east of Saskatchewan, on the north by Fort Smith Region, North West Territories, on the west by British Columbia and on the south by Montana. (McClelland and Stewart, 1995) Western most of the Prairie Provinces, Alberta lies on a high plateau, rising on the west to the Continental Divide at the British Columbia border. There ... and Indian mixed descent. They settled their ways of life on farms and settling into there own permanent homes. (The World Book Encyclopedia, 1989ed) Ranching began in the year 1880. Montana drove their cattle across the Canadian border. The Northwest Mounted Police came to Alberta in the year 1874. The Mounted Police did their job by driving away outlaws and traders ...
- 19: How Can We Control The Drink Till You Drop Mentality At Colleges?
- ... college I realized that there was a big problem on campus. My first encounter with binge drinking on a college level was at my soon to be fraternity house at Montana State University. The funny thing was that I looked at the situation as the normal thing to do while at college. Kids my age were drinking as many as 9 ... a drinking spree. But for the most part students were relatively sober during the week. I’ll be the first one to admit that I was a binge drinker at Montana State. In fact I was probably very close to being categorized as an alcoholic. But after I got blood alcohol poisoning and managed to drink my way to 1.0 ...
- 20: Women In World War I
- ... society as jobs made for women, as nurses, secretaries, bookkeepers, etc. In April of 1917, women gained the most honorable status in society they ever received as Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was accepted as the first woman in the House of Representatives. In 1920, women composed 23.6% of the labor force, more than ever in American history, and beside that ... movement for the ERA. Also, with great political influence, Jeannette Rankin was elected, and accepted, into the United States House of Representatives on April 2, 1917 as the representative of Montana. Women of the era of World War I helped to set a precedent for women of centuries to come in their political influence. During and after World War I, women ...
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