On Thursday 8 march 1973 at 2:10 am‚ there was a fire bombing at the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane Fortitude Valley. James Richard Finch and John Andrew Stuart both started this fire. Finch was 29 and Stuart was 33 when they were arrested for setting two 23 litre barrels of fuel in the clubs foyer on fire. James Richard Finch who was 29 at the time was born in England while John Andrew Stuart (33) was born in Australia. Finch had previously been found guilty of malicious wounding with an
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relates L.A.s history as a city without a distinctive cultural and academic history to show the hypocrisy and naivety of such a claim. Having no successive generations of academics to truthfully‚ study and establish facts has created a chasm of actual research recording L.A and Southern California’s evolution‚ development and change. This absence of research has allowed the myths created to‚ in some instances‚ cement themselves into the material landscape of the city resulting in ‘’not fantasy
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the legal and non-legal responses to the Bali Bombings The 2002 Bali Bombings were a series of suicide bombing attacks on the popular western tourist district of Kuta‚ Bali - an island of Indonesia. The attack occurred on October 12‚ 2002 and took the lives of 202 people; 88 of which were Australian nationals. This response will evaluate the legal and non-legal responses to the Bali Bombings according to the following criteria: resource efficiency‚ accessibility‚ enforceability
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Hiroshima’s atomic bombing Educating ourselves on events in world history may not prevent the present and future leaders from making the same mistakes‚ and neither will it accomplish utter tranquility and peace among all countries. It is however an important tool for us individuals to understand the results of each event‚ and how they came to shape the structures of nations and their relationships with each other today. The bombing of Hiroshima is an event that has impacted the United States and
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individuals‚ might ignore an indicator(s) is simply because there is a pre-conceived notion in place regarding a particular situation and/or group. A good example might be the buildup to the bombing of the marine barracks‚ in Beirut‚ Lebanon‚ in late October of 1983. In a case study conducted on the Beirut barracks bombing‚ it was noted that of the key indicators‚ "Signs of growing hostility"‚ was ignored leading to what the FBI termed as the “largest conventional blast” they had ever seen (Shreeve and Wysocki
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The British Royal Forces (RAF) started to come up with a new tactic “night precision bombing” aiming at specific targets and attacking during night. The main targets picked out for attack were oil‚ aluminum‚ and aero-engine plants (USSBS‚ 1945). Though these attacks were constant in trying to slow down and destroy Germanys productions most of them were ineffective. Most of the bombers couldn’t find their target mostly because of the geographic location of the target but also because of the limited
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Nubia Clermont Chemistry Feb 27th‚ 2015 1. Detailed explanation of how smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors work. How do smoke detectors work? *Smoke alarms detect the smoke that comes from a fire; once it detects the smoke the smoke will trigger an alarm sound to ring off. The Ionization smoke detector detects smoke by sensing smoke particles. When these smoke particles pass through a chamber‚ it will absorb the alpha particles present from the alpha source. The smoke absorbing the alpha
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2008. Web. 14 Nov 2012. <http://1960sracism.blogspot.com>. "Newspaper Article on Church Bombing in 1960 ’s." tripod.com. Tripod. Web. 14 Nov 2012. <http://arcchampman.tripod.com/literature>. . "Addie Mae‚ Cynthia‚ Carole‚ and Denise." findagrave.com. Find A Grave. Web. 14 Nov 2012. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=6433252&page=gr>. "The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing." Ballad of Birmingham. www.balladofbirmingham.com. Web. 14 Nov 2012. <http://www.english
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Harbor disaster makes us feel sympathetic. But I feel that bombings were unnecessary because of the effects. The effects aftermath on the cities was catastrophic‚ the explosion wiped out 90% of the Hiroshima‚ and instantaneously killed eighty thousand workers and civilians combined. more ended up dying later on from radiation exposure which was a slow agonizing death. Three days later‚ another atomic b-29 bomb hit Japan‚ but this time on a city called Nagasaki‚ killing around forty thousand people.
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last came to the city. I never wanted to come back‚ I thought the memories would be too painful‚ but Mr. Tom made me come. He said it would be good for me to get over my past. As I looked around‚ I remembered back to when the station was full of soldiers going off to the war. The bombing had clearly taken its toll on the city. It had been nearly a year since the end of the war and many factories were still damaged. I had become so
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