The Himalayas towards the north reach altitudes of 19,000 feet. The western mountains in between Burma and India forming the java arc consists of pinnacles as high as 12,000 feet, the Bay Of Bengal and the Andaman Sea at the southern boundary, on the south east Burma shares an extended border with Thailand. ... This transfer included 300 British made Bren guns with 3 million rounds of ammunition, 1,000 machine guns with 180,000 rounds of ammunition, 260 jeeps, 683 trucks and 100 field telephones. ... As for this attack 100 experienced pistols, 100 co-pilots, 100 C-47A planes Airplanes were de...

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To understand why the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to get into space was so important during the late 1950s, you have to first look at what was going on in the world at that time. At that time in history the Cold War was at its prime state and America's fear of the Communists...

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Explosive effects from the 1200-pound bomb caused a crater 180 feet deep, 100 feet long, and 200 feet wide in the underground parking garage. ... According to Fred Holliday, approximately 400,000 square feet of space required complete structural demolition and reconstruction. ... They ride past 200 acres of lawn to park approximately 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots; climb 131 stairways or ride 19 escalators to reach offices that occupy 3,705,793 square feet. ...

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This is shown through the detached manner of fact tone 'Sometimes I wondered 100 times if it was an accident'. ... The amplification of sound of feet on stones underscores chaos and the complexity associated with ethics in WWII. ...

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Many of the soldiers would contract "trench feet," a condition caused from standing in the damp, mud-filled trenches. ... He reported seeing "soldiers in filthy tatters, their feet bound with rags "soldiers limping, staggering on crutches, without arms, without legs, discharged from the overcrowded hospitals [where they were six to ten to a room] still blue and shaking from typhus- (Gilbert 111). ...

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