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Share Who Bombed Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior? On July 10, 1985, Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French secret agents while it was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand. Share What Was the Scopes Trial? On July 10, 1925, the Scopes Trial began, featuring two famous lawyers battling to decide whether creationism and evolution should be taught in schools
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6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism
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Franklin and Wilkins worked on separate DNA projects, but by some accounts, Wilkins mistook Franklin's role in Randall's lab as that of an assistant rather than head of her own project. After finishing her doctoral degree in physics at the University of Vienna, Meitner moved to Berlin in 1907 and started collaborating with chemist Otto Hahn
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Nearly 60 percent of Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers rate the emotional stress of caregiving as high or very high; about 40 percent suffer from depression. Average per-person Medicare spending for people age 65 or older with Alzheimer's and other dementias is three times higher than for seniors without dementia
Women And Hysteria In The History Of Mental Health
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He emphasizes the difference between the compulsive movements of epilepsy, caused by a disorder of the brain, and those of hysteria due to the abnormal movements of the uterus in the body. However, even at the end of 19th century, scientific innovation had still not reached some places, where the only known therapies were those proposed by Galen
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In Anhui province, among third children, there are 227 boys for every 100 girls, while in Beijing municipality (which also permits exceptions in rural areas), the sex ratio reaches a hard-to-credit 275. In Punjab Monica Das Gupta of the World Bank discovered that second and third daughters of well-educated mothers were more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday as their brothers, regardless of their birth order
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World War II: Hitler Speeches
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Should anything happen to Party Comrade Hess, then by law the Senate will be called, and will choose from its midst the most worthy - that is to say the bravest - successor. The horrid fate that is now taking shape in the east and that exterminates hundreds of thousands in the villages and market places, in the country and in the cities will be warded off in the end and mastered by us, with the utmost exertion and despite all setbacks and hard trials
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The physical and mental strain of the long hours at dispersal, the constant flying at high altitudes (two or three sorties a day were normal, six or seven not uncommon), must have been prodigious. Jul 18 1940 Rising casualties at home, Mediterranean fleet bombed During the operations in the Eastern Mediterranean last week the Fleet and the slower of the two convoys from Malta to Alexandria which the Fleet was covering were continually bombed without success
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The introduction of modern technology to warfare resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in November 1918
Best World War 2 movies list on War Movies Info
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The regiment is a penal unit formed out of "expendable" soldiers - politically unwanted or with criminal records - so they are given the most dangerous missions the German army can get. But soon they will have to grow up fast when a chain of eve 1978 Force 10 from Navarone United Kingdom Cast: Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Harrison FordAfter successful action on Navarone Miller and Mallory are sent with another mission, this time to Yugoslavia
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Share From Joan Rivers: Quotes on Life, Marriage, Men and More Carefully curated quotes from Joan Rivers -- the best of the best of her sassy and wise words. How did she defend this for-the-time radical step? Share Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas Sophie Tucker, vaudeville entertainer who made Some of These Days her signature song, made her fat girl image into a positive feature of her act
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One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). A study attempted to reason why the disease had been so devastating in certain localized regions, looking at the climate, the weather and the racial composition of cities
Pearl Harbor - World War II - HISTORY.com
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(All but USS Arizona and USS Utah were eventually salvaged and repaired.) In all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed 18 American ships and nearly 300 airplanes. But if you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Home Topics World War II Pearl Harbor Get more on World War II Related Content news In Reversal, Pearl Harbor Unknowns to Be Exhumed news Bodies of Japanese WWII Soldiers Found in Island Caves topic Hirohito audio Play video Post-Pear Harbor Blackout in California topic Bataan Death March audio Play video Pearl Harbor Attack news WWII Aircraft Carrier Used in Atomic Bomb Tests Found Intact on Sea Floor gallery Pearl Harbor video Play video Franklin D
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Fascism, was a promise to respond to the needs of the people more effectively than a democracy could and to assure defense against the state becoming communist. There was the development of new weaponry, such as the long-range rocket and the A-bomb, as well as radical advancements in the mechanized units and the air force
Pictures of African Americans During World War II
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Get Started Find a Topic Order Copies Hire a Researcher Contact National Archives Learn why Democracy Starts Here Pictures of African Americans During World War II Select Audiovisual Records Larger Version Army Air Forces The Homefront Merchant Marine Rest and Relaxation Personalities Training US Army US Marine Corps US Navy Women in the Military How to Order Other Resources Researching World War II Images of African Americans, Prologue article World War II Records African American Records Veterans Service Records Still Pictures Holdings During the 50th anniversary of World War II, as we honor those Americans who undauntedly and courageously contributed to the defense of our nation, often overlooked in our remembrances are the valiant efforts of African Americans. Taylor, 21-year-old transportation dispatcher at Mitchel Field, New York City, who knows Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, studies a book on Chinese
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