------------------------------------ The Japanese officers consistently tortured certain prisoners to withdraw relevant intelligence on the armed resistance and to expose the allied spies. The Selarang barracks protest against the escape document saw 20‚000 British and Australian prisoners of war rounded up in the central square of the Selarang camp and were refused any food‚ water‚ and medical treatment. Several men died from dysentery. All because they refused to sign a pledge not to escape.
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February 20th‚ 1959 when Canadian Prime Minister ordered the cancellation of the production of the CF-105 (official name of the avro arrow). The CF-105 was originally designed as a long-range interceptor‚ meant to meet and destroy Soviet bombers. The hypersonic fighter was on the cutting edge of aerospace technology at the time: it could reach a speed nearly three times the speed of sound‚ travelling at an altitude of 60‚000 feet. The rollout of the first CF-105‚ marked as RL201‚ took place on 4
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Colony Collapse Disorder is a phenomenon‚ which happens when the majority of the worker bees abandon a queen and vanish. They also leave behind a lot of nourishment and nurse bees to look after the staying immature bees and the queen. The hives cannot support themselves without worker bees‚ so they have chance to die. Colony Collapse Disorder have declined significantly over the last 5 years. It was already known in the apiculture field as different names. Since the great number of disappearance
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investigation‚ Till Death Do Us Part by the Post and Courier makes me wish that some did not exist. The Post and Courier explained numerous relationships that I would wish on no one. For someone who holds connections between people in the highest regards‚ that is saying a lot. The article is no doubt one of the best pieces I have read in quite a while. The topic is grim‚ but somehow I was left with hope after reading. The format of the article is what made me most impressed. I felt like I had an in-depth
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Afghanistan (/ʌfˈɡʌnɪstɑːn/; Listeni/æfˈɡænɨstæn/; Persian: افغانستان; Pashto: Afġānistān)‚ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan‚ is a landlocked sovereign state forming part of South Asia‚[8] Central Asia‚[9] and to some extent Western Asia. It has a population of around 30 million inhabiting an area of approximately 647‚500 km2 (250‚001 sq mi)‚ making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east‚ Iran in the west
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history when there is a sudden death of a ruler‚ a defeat in war‚ or a successful revolution‚ this often leads to a collapse of government. Various political‚ social‚ and economic changes have occurred because of this collapse. The collapse of the Roman and Ottoman Empire are just two of the many governments that have collapsed on various terms. Constantine the Great‚ or Constantine I‚ was the emperor during the fall of the Roman Empire. There were various causes that led to the dissipation of his
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Till We Have Faces A Myth Retold C.S. Lewis’s book Till We Have Faces is about the myth of Psyche and Cupid. However‚ in the original tale Psyche is a very naive girl who is greatly influenced by her two wicked older sisters. In this rendition of the tale‚ Psyche’s sisters are not evil and Psyche is not a mindless fool as she has been portrayed in earlier tales. Setting The story takes place in the kingdom of Glome. Glome’s social perspective is not surprisingly‚ a male dominant society and
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sustained have learned from the ones that have collapsed. They learn not to make the mistakes those that have collapsed have made‚ they improve and adapt. Some use the mistakes of others to make them collapse so they can sustain. By knowing what they need to do to improve‚ they can make sure that they don’t collapse. Civilizations sustain with a social structure‚ a stable government‚ and a culture to prevent chaos and create trust. All civilizations have had its people divided by certain ways to help the
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Till was a 14 year old who lived in the North where segregation was no longer a law‚ but then moved to the South where segregation still existed. At the time before his assassination‚ he was too young to understand that what he was doing was wrong. Till’s story really inspired a lot of people‚ and also has a lot of demonstration of people stepping out of their comfort zone and using will power to get through it. Amy Till‚ mother of Emit‚ shows courage‚ will
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J. Diamond’s Collapse: Harappa Throughout the course of history‚ major complex civilizations have always found themselves in a state of decline‚ and possibly even collapse. In “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” Jared Diamond lays out the questions and issues and issues at the foundation of his theory on the collapse of societies. Diamond uses five factors that could contribute to the collapse of a society: damage that people in inadvertently inflict on the environment‚ climate-change
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