Black holes do not exist—at least‚ not as we know them‚ says renowned physicist Stephen Hawking‚ potentially provoking a rethink of one of space’s most mysterious objects. A new study from Hawking also says that black holes may not possess "firewalls‚" destructive belts of radiation that some researchers have proposed would incinerate anything that passes through them but others scientists deem an impossibility. (Editor’s note: Watch for our feature "The Truth About Black Holes" in the March
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The Black Hawk Helicopter The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has played an evolutionary role in the United States military‚ specifically the Army‚ but is also used in many other American government organizations. The Black Hawk is four bladed twin-engine utility helicopter with an amazing history and multiple capabilities. To begin‚ the UH-60 Black Hawk has an extraordinary history in our military. It all started in 1972 when Sikorsky Aircraft submitted the S-70 design to the United States
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25 November 2013 The Black Widow Spider What is a black widow spider? Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored‚ hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. It is very small‚ females are about 15 mm and the males are only 7 mm‚ not including the legs. Its venom is 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s. The most dangerous for humans is the American black widow spider. These spiders are found in many areas of the world‚ but are found mostly in the Western Hemisphere‚ particularly
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Since 1976 Black History Month has been a remembrance of the events in the history of the African American movement. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in the month of February‚ and the United Kingdom in the month of October. In the U.S.‚ Black History Month is also referred to as African-American History Month. Black History Month actually started as Negro History Week in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. The goal of Black History Week was to educate the American people about
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Black Elk talks‚ about a personal story‚ that has different characteristics of several genders. biography‚ testimony‚ and history. However‚ the black elk is contains of 25 chapters‚ which discovered black elk’s early life. The story draws the black elk as a savior and glorified man that has all the power‚ which ensured to him since he was young. It recorded the shift of the Sioux nation from previous reservation to reservation culture‚because of their engagement in the war of Little Bighorn. Black
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The article "Like Black Smoke" and the article "A World Turned Upside Down" both mainly discuss about a horrible and deadly diseas called the bubonic plague. Like "A World Turned Upside Down" the author is mainly describing how black death swept through and has effected Europe and changed everything in the old times. In the article "Like Black Smoke" the author is telling how the black death spread‚ where it came from‚ and where it traveled. "Like Black Smoke" was to explain how the
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“The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. Du Bois‚ the author of “The Souls of Black Folk‚” had one goal in mind: to describe the conditions and prejudices that blacks encountered in the early twentieth century. Du Bois was convinced that race would be a fundamental problem that would plague the rest of the century. Du Bois was a prominent leader of the black community in the twentieth century along with a contemporary by the name of Booker T. Washington. However‚ their view point on how to tackle the
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Democracy in Black is a course I will hold onto for the rest of my career at Green Mountain College‚ it has moved me in a way that other courses were not able to mainly because of the text Democracy in Black. I do feel this course would have been even more beneficial if it met more than once a week for five weeks. Reflecting back on this course I have gained much knowledge regarding white privilege and the value gap in America that I knew little to nothing about beforehand. Throughout my time reading
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After viewing the documentary film‚ ’Out of Control: AIDS in Black America’‚ I was shocked and vividly awaken to how this disease has reached epidemic portion in the black community of this country‚ and how it has been ignored by both black and white leadership at all levels of community involvement and well as at governmental levels . Phill Wilson‚ executive director of the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles says that many of our black leaders and celebrities have acknowledged and supported to fight
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The Black Death is a time in medieval history that is to this day the worst demographic disaster in European history. The Black Death is the nickname of the disease “Yersinia Pestis” that hit the European world in the 1340 CE. This disease wiped out 80 million people total. The devastation of this disease makes the Black Death the most significant event that occurred in the later medieval period. The Black Death is the most significant event because of the devastating nature of the disease and the
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