Micah Moore March 17‚ 2014 History 2020 Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 On January 12‚ 1888‚ the weather in the west was mild‚ compared to previous weeks. Little did the people know that a massive cold front was in route and would be catastrophic to the people‚ their livestock‚ and the economy in the dekota and nebraska praries. The cold front would cause one of the worst blizzards for the region‚ killing close to 500 people. The factors that made the death toll so high
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BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT FROM THEN TILL NOW Gary Buckman GSP110 † Introduction to Game and Simulation Development Professor Getz 03/06/2009 WOW! No I’m not surprised. If you or your friends have ever said you were playing WoW then you know the game I’m talking about.. World of Warcraft . If you have heard of this game then you have probably heard of Blizzard Entertainment. Blizzard Entertainment was founded in 1991 by 3 men Michael Morhaime‚ Allen Adham‚ and Frank Pierce. The company
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Blizzard Entertainment is a division of Activision Blizzard and develops and publishes their own software. They are headquartered in Irvine‚ CA and were originally founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse and were a third party developer prior to becoming its own label in 1994. They created software for MS-DOS‚ Mac‚ Sega Genesis‚ and the Super Nintendo. Some of Blizzard’s most well-known games from that time were “Rock ‘n Roll Racing‚” “The Lost Vikings” and “Blackthorne.” Nowadays‚ they are most recognized
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October 29‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy a category 2 made landfall in New Jersey. Sandy had + 96 mph winds and a 6ft-8ft storm surge. Force winds extend 175 miles out from Sandy’s eye‚ making it much larger than most storms. Before the storm hit many of residence were without power due to sever winds and rain. Many people did not know how to prepare for such a storm in the North East states. Hurricane Sandy weakened to a post-tropical cyclone in the evening before it hit the southern coast of New Jersey
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“The Murderous Blizzard” In the article‚ Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 by David Laskin‚ which analyze the severe and tragic event that happened over the Northeast continent of American. In January 12‚ 1888‚ began as inconvenient warm morning across Nebraska‚ Kansas‚ Iowa‚ territory of Dakotas‚ and Minnesota. Prairie snowstorm of blizzard killed hundreds of recently immigrant that comes to west in search prosperous new life. The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed
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ELA MCAS Practice The blizzards of 1888 were portrayed as brutal‚ heavy‚ and a surprise to the people living in the midwest in both the poem “A woman’s voice” and the article ¨Blizzard!¨. They both show different viewpoints‚ with the article taking an informative stance while the poem was more of a story. However‚ they both give similar descriptions of the storm. Using both sources can give a more accurate portrayal of the blizzards. One example of this is found both in the article and the poem
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The Schoolhouse Blizzard‚ also known as the Children’s Blizzard blasted the American Plains on January 12‚ 1888. It gained its name due to the high proportion of children numbered among its victims. This is considered one of the worst blizzards of all time. The U.S. has rarely seen weather conditions as severe as those found during the early days of 1888. In the regions of western Canada east of the mountain ranges of British Columbia and north of the 60th parallel‚ January weather is usually
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Hurricanes Hurricanes can cause damage that can last a life time. For example‚ Hurricane Katrina has affected hundreds of families till death with the loss of their loved ones. On the other hand when someone hears the word hurricane in Florida he or she immediately turns on the television or radio to see where the hurricane is going to go. This means to Floridians‚ here comes two weeks without power‚ gas‚ and most importantly air conditioning. In 2004 Florida was a magnet for hurricanes; this has
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What is a Hurricane? A hurricane is an intense‚ rotating oceanic weather system that possesses maximum sustained winds exceeding 119 km/hr (74 mph). It forms and intensifies over tropical oceanic regions. Hurricanes are generally smaller than storms in mid-latitudes‚ typically about 500 km (311 miles) in diameter. At the ocean’s surface‚ the air spirals inward in a counterclockwise direction. This cyclonic circulation becomes weaker with height‚ eventually turning into clockwise (anticyclonic)
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Carlos Agis I. Company Summary Overview Leading market positions across all game categories‚ Activision Blizzard is the second largest entertainment and gaming software business in the world by revenue (Reuters Agency). Activision has published some of the best selling console‚ handheld‚ and mobile video games such as Call of Duty (Reuters Agency). The company’s second-half‚ Blizzard Entertainment‚ focuses on the firms’ pc gaming industry with best-selling games such as StarCraft‚ and the #1
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