Bioluminescence Have you ever experienced a light show underwater? No‚ you are right that is not and can not be actually lights with electricity‚ but is the notorious scientific discovery of bioluminescence. One of the earliest sightings was by Aniximenes in 500 B.C. where he described that the alluring light show as “glowing when he struck the sea with an oar”. People have observed bioluminescence countless times ever since. In the Mesopelagic zone of the ocean‚ which is about 200m to 1000m
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THE FALL OF SINGAPORE SPEECH The Battle of Singapore was fought in South-East Asia during World War II‚ when the Japanese Army was severely underrated. Nobody could have predicted the outcome of the battle that commenced on the 31st of January 1941 and lasted til the 15th of February in 1942. Singapore was a great strategic naval base for the Allied Forces‚ and they anticipated an attack. The British had the numbers‚ but it seems as though the Japanese had the luck. Let me start by telling
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The Civil War was a time of great social and political upheaval. It was also a time of great technological change. Inventors and military men devised new types of weapons‚ such as the repeating rifle and the submarine‚ that forever changed the way that wars were fought. Even more important were the technologies that did not specifically have to do with the war‚ like the railroad and the telegraph. Innovations like these did not just change the way people fought wars--they also changed the way people
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“The Great Depression” The United States has changed a lot since its “Birth” in 1776. The United States changed for better or worse from The Great Depression‚ The Vietnam War‚ and The Attacks of 9/11. These life altering events formed America with tragedy‚ and destruction. Being the land of the free and the home of the brave. We rose up stronger and with hope. That’s what makes America great. The Great Depression all started when the stock’s value started to plummet with no hope of recovery
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Technology of World War 2 John Murrow Dec. 17‚ 2012 Technology of World War 2: Outline I. INTRODUCTION A. How World War 2 Started B. The Difference in Technology from WW1 and
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The concept of underwater endeavors has been around since the ancient times‚ the Egyptians used reeds to hunt in the water. The first time the concept was used in a military manner was by Alexander the Great’s army to clear obstructions during the siege of Syracuse in about 413 BC. Both of these instances were very primitive underwater developments‚ but held the basic concepts of a modern day submarine. They used underwater concealment to achieve a goal and that is the overall main concept of a modern
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The attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor that took place on the December 7th of 1941 was a shocking event for the American public‚ and had served as the catalyst for the country’s entry into the Second World War. The attack on Pearl Harbor is considered the most shocking event that left a mark on United States’ culture and public awareness before the September 11 attacks. One reason for this is the surprise nature of the attacks and the massive number of casualties. Because of this‚ most historians
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began in 1964 after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed. The resolution was passed following the suspicious Gulf of Tonkin Incident‚ which occurred on August 2‚ 1964 after the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox was fired upon by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Two days later the Maddox and the C. Turner Joy were supposedly involved in a second attack. President Lyndon B. Johnson used this incident as justification to ask Congress to give him the powers he needed to respond to aggression from the
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Everyone wants a peaceful‚ happy‚ wealthy life. Or at least the Japanese wanted this. The Japanese decided one day in the 1880’s that they wanted a better life. They were on a long journey to the United States‚ in search for a stable and better home. Successfully‚ they made it to the U.S.‚ and started getting their life together‚ when everything came crashing down. The Pearl Harbor attack happened and that’s when all hell went loose. Anti-Japanese propagandas were made‚ rude signs were put up on
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Joseph Stalin once said “The death of one man is a tragedy. The deaths of millions is a statistic” (“Joseph Stalin Quote”). On a sunday of December 7‚ 1941 a surprise attack was planned by the Japanese to attack Oahu‚ Hawaii also known as Pearl Harbor. On this day many lives of the United States army were taken by the hands of Japan. The men of the United States army in Oahu were attacked by surprise which did not give them enough time to fight back. Many of the equipment was destroyed which gave
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