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Oleg Vladmirovich PenkovskyColonel
Colonel is a name that doesn\'t ring a bell for most people. However, for many in the intelligence community this name is as about household as you can get. He is a legend in his own right. Those who lived during and through the Cuban missile crisis actually benefited from this ...
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Colonel Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovskyis a name that doesn't ring a bell for most people. However, for many in the intelligence community this name is as about household as you can get. He is a legend in his own right. Those who lived during and through the Cuban missile crisis actually benefited from this man's activities. ...
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Mark Twain 3A pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.
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John Updike AandPThe essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. -John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, ch. 1 (1989)-
Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. We never know when we lose it and it is ...
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Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Tex., the eldest son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson. His father, a struggling farmer and cattle speculator in the hill country of Texas, provided only an uncertain income for his family. Politically active, Sam Johnson ...
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Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Tex., the eldest son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson. His father, a struggling farmer and cattle speculator in the hill country of Texas, provided only an uncertain income for his family. Johnson attended public schools in ...
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Elie WieselEliezer Wiesel was born in 1928, a native of Sighet, Transylvania (Romania) which is near the Ukrainian border; He grew up experiencing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust, this started when at fifteen years old Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and ...
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Ulysses S. Grant 2Ulysses S. Grant was an American general and 18th president of the U.S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, the son of Hannah Simpson and Jesse Grant, the owner of a tannery. Taken to nearby Georgetown at the age of one, he was educated in local and boarding schools. In ...
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Memoirs Of A Mountain HighIt was the summer of 94 when I took a Wilderness Leadership Semester
from the Colorado Outward Bound School . Needless to say that it was the
most emotional, challenging, and rewarding experience that I have had in
all of my 19 ears of existence. One week spent running the Upper Green
River in ...
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The Life Of Harry HoudiniThe performer known world wide as Harry Houdini was born on March
24, 1874 in Budapest. Although Houdini often claimed to be born in Appleton,
Wisconsin, Houdini actually came to the United States when he was four
years old. To this day many connected with the small town of Appleton still
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Life Of John MiltonMilton, John (1608-1674), English poet, whose rich, dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare.
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Catherine The GreatCatherine II, or , empress of Russia (1762-96), did
much to transform Russia into a modern country. Originally named Sophie
Fredericke Augusta, she was born in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), on May
2, 1729, the daughter of the German prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. At the age of
15 she went to Russia to ...
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The Bogus Logic Of The Beak OfPeople who have served in the Armed Forces may be familiar with the expression, "If you can't dazzle then with your brilliance, baffle them with your baloney." The Beak of the Finch uses such laughable logic, it is remarkable that anyone would believe it. The book does such a terrible job of ...
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Europe And The New WorldTutorial Question: Why were the ‘westerners’ (Spanish, English, Portuguese’s, French etc) able to displace the native people’s of America with, seemingly, relative ease? Was this evidence of a superior ‘civilisation’?
Many believe that there is a great difference between ‘westerners’ and the ...
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Faster Dissolved Oxygen Test KitPurpose
The purpose of my project is to determine if there is any significant
difference in dissolved oxygen (DO) levels as measured by the traditional HACH®
method or the newly developed CHEMets® test kit under typical field conditions.
Hypothesis
My hypothesis is that there is no significant ...
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The Atomic Bomb And JapanOn August 6th, 1945, 70, 000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds. The United States had dropped a bomb on Hiroshima. Looking back on Truman's decision. Today, it is not thought of as such a good idea. It introduced a weapon of mass destruction that could eventually be used against us, it ...
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Role Of Horses In EnglandF.M.L. Thompson is a very high ranking professor at the British Academy. He is the current editor of the annual "Letters and Memoirs" volumes published by the academy. He is also the chairman and general editor of the records of Social and Economic History Committee of the British Academy. He ...
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Cuban Missile CrisisThe : Necessary or Not?
"…Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the ...
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Shadow And Custodial Presidents
Grant (1868) – Cleveland (1892)
Throughout the history of the world there have been many people remembered for their actions and a great deal more forgotten for no real reason. This does not exempt more recent history. After the American Civil War, six lesser-known Presidents, Grant, Hayes, ...
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Ben Franklins AutobiographyFRIEND OF SELF, FRIEND OF SOCIETY:
THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Franklin's memoirs, his Autobiography, project a Benjamin Franklin who is a highly self-conscious individual able to reason himself into a life of self-control, self-improvement, virtue, and multifaceted success. To what ...
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