saw a rat with it’s beady little eyes and dirty body. Softly‚ I hit it with the blunt side of my shovel. It reminded me that I was in the trenches and I looked at my uniform to make sure I hadn’t died and gone to hell‚ because no one sleeps in a trench. Thankfully or perhaps unfortunately‚ I was still alive. Another artillery shell fired‚ a scream emanated from across from across no-man’s land. It sounded German I guess the shell found it’s mark‚ but mustn’t have been immediately virulent. That
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Long ago‚ when the continents were merged together as one‚ the animals and the humans walked among each other. Each continent was split up with a twenty foot trench that led directly to the center of the earth. On the border of one of the trenches was the small town of Pillowsville. In this town‚ lived a group of frogs. In Pillowsville‚ everyone stated within the town limits and they were happy with the way things were‚ except for Danny. Danny was the only frog who had dreams that stretched far beyond
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1.Meaning of bombastic (adjective) pompous; wordy; turgid; inflated; exaggerated Example The bombastic woman talks a lot about herself. 2.Meaning of mettlesome (adjective) courageous; brave; fearless Example Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy‚ and the effect - I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day - was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks. 3.Meaning of obtrusive (adjective) thrusting oneself or itself into undue prominence; invasive
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Human Lice Anoplurans are parasitic arthropods. They are commonly referred to as "sucking" lice. Lice are highly host specific and many species prefer specific sites on their host’s body. They can not survive without a host; therefore‚ lice have developed many adaptations that help them stay in close contact with their host. There are three types of human lice: The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitas)‚ the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)‚ and the crab louse (Pthirus pubis).
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but as fellow human beings. I was among the many soldiers who collected the dead. The stench was so bad that we had to stuff rags in our nostrils to kill the smell. At 4 pm‚ two red flares were firedand I hastily scrambled up the steep hill to my trench. Just before I jumped in‚ I waved back and a couple of Turks returned my greeting. Minutes later the gunfire started‚ both sides blazing away at each others trenches as if to say "The armistice is over‚ now it back to
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can locate and report on the enemy‚ and can stalk and kill with one shot unseen. All through World War I‚ expert marksmen were regularly utilized as a part of the trenches with an end goal to take out enemy officers in the forefront of the opposing trench. It was a mode of mutual harassment between enemy fronts. Snipers have been an integral part of wars throughout history and World War I snipers are no exception. The term “Sniper” originated from the British occupation of India in the 1800’s. It
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and it had the firepower of 100 guns. But the war had more than just guns. Along the trenches were barbed wires to protect the soldiers. But sometimes the soldiers would get tangled up in them and bleed to death. The same happened to the enemies. Trench warfare led to the development of the concrete pillbox‚ a hardened blockhouse that could be used to deliver machine gun fire. They could be placed across a battlefield with interlocking fields of fire. The German army was the first to use chlorine
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would be fought from then on. Along with these new technologies came new strategies like armored warfare‚ the use of aviation‚ and the use of artillery drastically changed the scope of land warfare. The First World War would also be known for use of trench warfare and attrition warfare which would characterize and give the face of the dark dismal scenes of war we all remember to this day. Although many people think of the long lines of trenches that stretched from Switzerland to the North Sea‚ World
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Germany would fight their last major battle against the Allied Forces in the summer of 1918 in the Second Battle of the Marne. This was the last major offensive that Germany would fight in World War I. This battle was supposed to be the battle that turned the tide for Germany but‚ it ultimately led to their downfall. It began on the Month of July 15 and lasted until the 5th of August 1918 and it brought a comeback plan devised by Erich Lundendorff the Chief of Staff for Germany. The plan called
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what they were to accomplish that day. The crew consisted of the foreman‚ a machine operator and a laborer on his second day of work with the company. They were going to dig a four-foot trench around the front of a home in a residential neighbor hood. The trench would be four to five feet deep and inside the trench they would put drainage tile to try to stop the flood of water in the homes basement. The contractor was new to the area and was not aware of the soil consistency in the area‚ which was
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