means of attacking Japan was via aerial attacks. Originally‚ these aerial raids were meant to be strategic in nature – targeting only the military factories. Unfortunately‚ this proved to be ineffective due to the unstable weather surrounding Japan. This forced the military to move onto another tactic – fire bombing. According to Thomas R. Searle‚ “The United States Army Air Forces devoted the bulk of its effort to ‘area raids’ that used incendiary bombs to burn down Japanese cities and to kill hundreds
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Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and his Indian name was Thayendanegea. Thayendanegea meaning he who places two bets. Joseph’s father was a sachem of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ which was to where the Mohawks belonged. Whereas Brant’s mother was not a Mohawk like his father. Brant did become a war chief but never rose to the rank of sachem. His parents were said to live at the Canajoharie castle in New York. Even though his family would have been a consideration and he was the grandson of one of the
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The years directly before the civil war were marked by escalating tensions and sharply declining relations between the North and South as differences between the two territories were made clear. John Brown’s raid in October of 1859 came at that volatile time and provoked an extreme reaction from the South immediately afterward; as the furious public option of the South was that the entire North had personally supported and condoned Brown and his violent actions in the ultimate quest of abolition
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During the years of 1846 to 1848‚ America and Mexico were in war due to conflicts regarding slavery and territories. Henry Clay (the Secretary of State at that time) tried to end the war by introducing a series of bills called The Compromise of 1850. The Compromise had five laws that were put in place to help the Northern Free States and the Southern Slave States come to a natural balance. In September 9‚ 1850‚ the government passed three of the laws from the Compromise of 1850. The first three
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administration‚ and a simpler configuration. NAS contains one or more hard drives often arranged in redundant storage containers or RAID. A typical speed of the network adapter is 1 GB depending on the NAS and if you are building one. A standard capacity for NAS is approximately 2 TB but you can add on more hard drives allowing more storage. If installed properly‚ RAID 50 is tolerable for NAS. NAS contains several features that may be beneficial to a work environment or at home back-up. The following
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Others thought that it was derived from the Bicol term ribong‚ which means‚ to loose one’s sense of direction or to be puzzled‚ to be disoriented. Others claimed that it came from libon which means to assault or to raid. This last interpretation seems to offer a more reasoned explanation. In his Vocabulario de la Lengua Vicol composed in the last years of the sixteenth century‚ Fray Marcos de Lisboa‚ defined libong as matar salteando
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a new terrifying powerful explosive‚ as devastating as any other of the deadly explosive weapons of modern war. Had the war continued until the projected invasion on November 1‚ additional fire raids of B‑20’s would have been more destructive of life and property than the very limited number of atomic raids which we could have done in the same period. But the atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon as well. The bomb served exactly the purpose we intended
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blankets‚ and food to keep each other comfortable and safe during German air raids. (BBC 1)Civilians play a key role in keeping morale high during war times in developed nations. In addition‚ War makes civilians stronger through developing close ties with each other and ensuring the safety of others during dangerous conditions. Mangiafico 2 As a result of increasingly dangerous living conditions and air raids from the German Luftwaffe‚ British civilians rose to the occasion and unified
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Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience advocates the need to prioritize one’s conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies‚ most prominently slavery and the Mexican American War. In Civil Disobedience‚ Thoreau introduces the idea of civil disobedience that was used later by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. In fact‚ many consider Thoreau as the greatest exponent of passive resistance of the 19th century. The
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they had gone to the Falkland Islands to raid a British wireless and coaling station. To their surprise they found a British squadron refuelling. The surprised‚ fleeing Germans were destroyed and 1‚800 Germans died. In the Indian Ocean‚ the German ship Emden attacking small ports and sea-side villages (allies to the British) but later in the beginning of November was destroyed by an Australian cruiser. 1915 On January 23rd‚ a German squadron went to raid the English coast‚ but the English had been
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