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…light of publicity.” In the battle for prestige, this was a powerful advantage. (Heppenheimer, 195) On the afternoon of May 25, 1961, Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress. He called for a buildup of the Army and Marines. He urged the nation…

…numbers. The Legion units in North Africa simply had to bide their time. The two elements of the Legion even took on a different appearance. The main body in North Africa still wore the French army prewar uniform--a baggy tunic and breeches with ancient…

…favored Kyoto as a target. Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan, a “historical city and one that was of great religious significance to the Japanese.” (Thomas 71-72) With an estimate population of a million, Kyoto, Groves reasoned, “like any city…

…and speakers. History Early ideas about sound. The study of sound began in ancient times. As early as the 500's B.C., Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher and mathematician, experimented on the sounds of vibrating strings. About 400 B.C., a Greek scholar named Archytas…

…colonists. In the 1960's it became clearer that Mars is not a planet swarming with life but a harsh environment (Barbee/Ciadin, 125). Images from the Mariner 4 showed a Moon-like terrain dominated by large impact craters (Boyce, 35). It is believed…

…in the Middle East proper over the flushing of a holy book (a story that Newsweek has since rescinded, have said their source may have not been entirely accurate. After all, how powerful are those Marine toilets?) are indicative of a trend that has been underway…

…in ancient Greece and nowadays are quite similar. In Greek myths, Zeus is a sexually-active person, "It has been estimated that, besides his legal wife Hera, Zeus had over 100 women." (Reinhold,80) Poseidon is also sexually obtrusive. For instance, Poseidon…

…No Ruz, new day or New Year as the Iranians call it, is a celebration of spring Equinox. It has been celebrated by all the major cultures of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerians, 3000BC, Babylonians 2000 BC, the ancient kingdom of Elam in Southern Persia…

…Little is known of Aristophanes (446-386 B.C.), except that he was one of the most popular playwrights of the Ancient Greece in 500B.C. He wrote a new style of comedies, and out of forty he has been said to have produced, eleven of them have stood…

…Reconciliation with the past is a major theme throughout Tolkien's trilogy, and the gap between the powerful, undying beings of the past and the mortal men of the present and future is starkly evident when the characteristics of the ancient domains…