Topic: India’s Space Programme Origin and Development Space activities in India started in the sixties with the establishment of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). The efforts were consolidating with formation of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 1969. The space programme got further fillip in June 1972‚ when the Government of India constituted the Space Commission and established the Department of Space (DOS). ISRO was brought under newly formed DOS in September 1972
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The Thirteen Colonies 16th century England was not interested in exploration and colonization‚ but for the most part‚ English colonies in North America were more for bussiness and in search of gold . It did provide extra land for Englands growing population and for those who seeked more religious freedom. Englands colonization in the new world led to the Thirteen Colonies made up of the New England Colonies‚ The Middle Colonies‚ and the Southern Colonies each having seperate religious beliefs‚ laws
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Development of African American Studies Scholars have dedicated their time and attention to furthering the discipline of African American Studies and can define the field with many different definitions. Through looking at the origins and development in the study we can see how it became a legitimate academic field. As we study the writings of the African American intellect‚ it will fully explain the importance of the discipline. Their work will justify the study of cultural and historical experiences
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke On May 8th‚ 1585‚ Richard Grenville‚ a famous naval commander‚ set sail for the island of Roanoke‚ a small island off the coast of modern-day North Carolina. With the hopes of establishing a colony‚ John White‚ an explorer and artist‚ was appointed the role of Governor. The colonists arrived sometime in July of 1587. There were a few small attacks from local Native Americans within the first few months‚ and the colonists desperately wanted John White to return to England
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"No commodity on the face of the Earth has been wrested from the soil or the seas‚ from the skies or the bowels of the earth with such misery and human blood as sugar" ...(Anon) Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste‚ rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated a complex process of cultural change altering the lives of all those it has touched
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Book Review The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity Our history books continue to present our country’s story in conventional patriotic terms. America being settled by courageous‚ white colonists who tamed a wilderness and the savages in it. With very few exceptions our society depicts these people who actually first discovered America and without whose help the colonists would not have survived‚ as immoral‚ despicable savages who needed to be removed by killing
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In 1860‚ slavery is what the blacks went through‚ but the North was their only safest place. If they were free in the north‚ where they couldn’t vote‚ couldn’t have social freedom‚ or economic/education‚ how free were they really? South had more resistance in the South and the North quickly freed the states without resistance. Blacks may not as free in the North as they said. How free were free blacks in the north? Politics: only white males could vote‚ anyone else couldn’t no matter what gender
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Slavery made its way to the colonies during the 1600s due to a lot of major factors. Before there were any slaves‚ there were indentured servants. The indentured servants mostly came from Great Britain. Looking for new space‚ life‚ and opportunity. The catch was the fact that these people had no money to pay their way into the New found land. So‚ that turned into people looking for a way to get over here. So people thought and talked about working off a debt‚ if someone were to pay their way over
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constantly between England and the Colonies meaning they received the larger portion of profit. England would have to come up with a solution. Oliver Cromwell and Parliament were enraged at realization of the Dutch’s sly move. The Colonies belonged to England‚
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First Name Last Name Hist 109 May 13‚ 2013 Civil War Paper Origins of the Civil War The military conflict within the United States around the years 1861 until 1865 between the Union and the Confederacy went into history as the American Civil War. The origins of this conflict have and were foreseen and discussed by the two elite politicians Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Both differed in ideology about what could have been the more successful political direction the nation should
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