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    what is now known as the World Wide Web happened in the same year the Situationalist International was formed. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was formed within the Department of Defense‚ in response to the USSR launching the satellite Sputnik‚ to establish the U.S. as the leader in military science and technology. The government controlled the network for over thirty years‚ developing new technologies to improve upon it‚ including the TCP/IP protocol‚ the Unix programming language and

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    of the greatest achievements of man. Space contains the whole universe including all the planets‚ the sun‚ the moon and the stars. The limit where the earth’s atmosphere ends is called outer space. History The first man made satellite Sputnik-1 was sent into space by Russia in 1957.Yuri Gagarin of Russia in 1961‚ became the first man to go into space. He circled the earth in 108 minutes and returned safely. Later‚ in 1963‚ Valentina Tereshkova became the first women to go into space. She

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    CONTENT Introduction………………………………………………………3 What is etymology?..............................................4 Methods…………………………………………………………….5 Types of words origins……………………………………….6 Assimilations……………………………………………………..7 Loanword. What is it?..........................................8 Loanwords………………………………………………………..9 Reference………………………………………………………..10 Conclusion………………………………………………………..11 INTRODUCTION Relevance to the topic: Language and words are part of us human beings

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    important factor in preventing direct US-Soviet confrontation. Of course‚ the mass production of nuclear weaponry increased tensions between East and West and therefore speeded up the development of the Cold War on a short scale. The development of Sputnik in 1957 did not just simply mean the beginning of the Space Race but also meant that the USSR was now capable of delivering nuclear warheads inter-continentally (ICBM) as this artificial satellite reduced the so-called ’warning time’ (the time between

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    The Cold War was a rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted for about forty-five years. The war began as a distrust between the two nations involving the United States concern of Soviet Union communism spreading and their leader‚ Joseph Stalin’s‚ rule. Numerous European and Asian countries were struggling in their fight against Soviet Union communism‚ including Greece and Turkey. President Harry Truman feared that the fall of Greece and Turkey to communism would lead to

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    The success of the Avro Arrow was unique and groundbreaking for Canada‚ and its ultimate cancellation lead to many questions and speculation as to why the program was prematurely halted. The declassification of government documents has shed some new light on the events leading up to the cancellation of the Avro project; however; it is a legacy that will endure. The charges and countercharges regarding the decision are as diverse as life itself. This paper delves into the issues and the processes

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    Wernher Von Braun‚ a German‚ American‚ aerospace engineer and space architect. He invented two of the most important rockets in the history of rockets‚ the V-2 and the Saturn V. Both of these rockets were very important to the development and furtherment of Missiles and Space Travel. Von Braun was born in 1912 in the Posen Province of then Germany. However after World War One this province was integrated into Poland. Early in his life‚ he stumbled on the book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen by Hermann

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    Introduction Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves (rather than some form of wire) carry the signal over part or the entire communication path. The first wireless transmitters went on the air in the early 20th century using radiotelegraphy (Morse code). Later‚ as modulation made it possible to transmit voices and music via wireless‚ the medium came to be called "radio." With the advent of television‚ fax‚ data communication‚ and the effective use of

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    Sino-Soviet Split Thesis: The reasons for the Sino Soviet split can be placed upon the political‚ economic and social difference between the nations; especially the ideological differences. Political Long Term * Stalin feared Mao as a rival for the leadership of the communist world * Didn’t want the Cold War to spread to Asia * Stalin underestimated the CCP * Believed the GMD would be stronger‚ * Wanted the communists to unite * Even when the victory

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    Cold War Essay Plan: Explain how relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were affected by the relations of each with China. 1945-1959: Good Sino-Soviet Relations‚ Tense Soviet-American Relations and Tense Sino-American Relations The Sino-Soviet alliance of the 1950s shifted the focus of the Cold War from Europe to Asia Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship‚ Alliance and Mutual Assistance February 1950 This treaty was initially between the Soviet Union and Nationalist China called Sino-Soviet

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