... the same. According to Stimson, who had been responsible to the President for the Manhattan Project since 1941, there was never any question in Roosevelt’s mind but the bomb would be used when ready. On Truman’s orders, the B-29 Enola Gay piloted by U.S. Army Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The date was August 6, 1945. Tibbets had named the plane after his mother the night before the attack. The Bomb was named Little Boy (Dark Blue in picture), exploded approximately 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan with a force equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. Immediate deaths were between 70,000 to 130,000. Fat Boy was the seco ...
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... October 24th, 1929, people began to sell their stocks as fast as they could. Sell orders flooded the market exchanges. (1929…) This day became known as Black Thursday. (Black Thursday…) On a normal day, only 750-800 members of the New York Stock Exchange started the exchange. (1929…) There were 1100 members on the floor for the morning opening. (1929…) Furthermore, the exchange directed all employees to be on the floor since there were numerous margin calls and sell orders placed overnight. Extra telephone staff was also arranged at the member’s boxes around the floor. (1929…) The Dow Jones Average closed at 299 that day. (1929…) On Tuesday, October 29th, 19 ...
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... Enlightenment has no claim to being less a myth than the mythology it failed to escape. This new myth is defined for them by the drive to dominate nature at the expense of alienation of man from nature and from his own inner nature. They follow the appearance of the subject as it is objectified alongside nature, and is dominated with it. The subject becomes an object and his intellect becomes instrumental, and all instinct and sensory experience that fails to be productive in the pursuit of domination is repressed, man becomes mechanized. They also assert that class domination is a direct and inevitable consequence of the attempt to dominate nature, and is therefo ...
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... several actions which singled out the Jew as an evil person and one who should be killed. In 1923, Hitler was caught while trying to overturn the Bavarian government and was imprisoned for 5 years. In prison, he wrote the famed autobiography, Mein Kampf, in which he stated his first publicly known anti-Semitic beliefs and his ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Question’. While imprisoned, there was a worldwide depression as economic markets crashed worldwide. This would help Hitler because once out of prison he would use this to help gain power both for the Nazi’s and for himself politically by promising better things to come in the ...
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... was Greek, but so tainted by barbarian strains that Athenians could not understand it. Macedonia remained an outland. Growth of trade in the early fourth century promoted the rise of several cities, yet when Perdiccas III, king of Macedonia, fell in 359 B.C. while fighting the Illyrians the seaboard of his state was largely under Athenian control or in the hands of the Chalcidian league, grouped about Olynthus. Philip (382-36), brother of the dead king, was made regent for the infant heir, soon set aside his nephew, and became outright king. Once power was his, the young monarch swiftly brought order to his domain by armed force when necessary, by ...
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... resulted in actual power. Aswell as a consideration of how the characteristics of the Kings and their most notable justiciars effected monarchical power, specific areas to be looked at will be legal affairs including the dispensation of justice and jurisdiction; the Exchequer and the systems of collecting revenue and taxes; feudal lords and their reaction to increased Kingly power; and also the clergy whose capabilities were restricted. This new era of officialdom whereby 'a regular staff was appointed to execute specific administrative tasks and thus to carry out the rulers political intentions in the daily running of public affairs' (3) must also be compared ...
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... excuse to fight. Germany wanted to prove that she was supreme. The assassination, the ultimatum and Germany's quest for power all contributed to the firing of the ultimate war engine. Considering that Austria-Hungary was responding in a retaliatory way, she nevertheless was a significant factor in ensuring that war was inevitable. On June 28, 1914, a Serbian terrorist group killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand, future ruler of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophia while visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina which was a former Serbian state recently annexed by Austria-Hungary. Gravrilo Princip, a nineteen-year old student from Belgrade, the ca ...
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... August first, 1811. On January second, 1815, Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke. They had one daughter, Augusta Ada, on December 10, 1811. Byron and Anne Milbanke divorced one year later and Byron left London forever. Byron went to Switzerland where he befriended Percy Shelly, another promenent poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after Byron had send over 4000 pounds to the Greek fleet, he sailed to join Prince Alexandros Mavrokordatos, to join his forces and fight with him. Byron contracted a fever and died on April 19th, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece. Lord Byron's poem "Euthanasia" was published in 1812. It reflects how Lord Byron felt ...
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... geography, which lacks many vital natural resources, has forced Japan to look to other countries for their needs. Instead of taking an honorable road, Japan rashly used unnecessary force to steal the resources of China and other nations. A second incentive for Japanese aggression is the mentality of the Japanese people, passed down from their ancestors. The Japanese have believed themselves to be superior to all other races, and that all whites will eventually serve Japanese masters. This aura of superiority inspired the Japanese to take over its "inferior and barbaric" neighbors. Japanese animosity towards its surrounding countries should not be credited to ...
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... a period of increasing black civil rights was already underway. Paving the way for the entire revolution was Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson, the first black American to play major league baseball. Blacks had crept in America's national past time; more radical social changes were soon to come. Disenfranchised blacks finally found a leader dedicated to their cause in Harry S. Truman. After hearing of a lynching of black war veterans, Truman was suddenly tuned in to the heated crisis in the southland. Despite persistent tries to advance the cause of the blacks, Truman was repeatedly shot down by a conservative congress. The boiling discontent ...
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