... coffin for its weak armor plate and all other small tanks defeated it. Allied forces later came to depend on the British Matilda. It had a 2-pound turret gun and a top speed of 15 mph, which was certainly considered quite fast for a tank in 1941. The British Matilda also had a 78mm armor plate and could stand most heavy fire. This tank ruled the ... as armor, to shield oncoming fire. This tank held up well against light fire, but against 30mm fire or more it would fall apart. In the waters there was much to attend to; one must not overlook the possibilities of the air. Both Axis and All...

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... Australia to their favourite sports. Radio was very popular especially for sports like cricket and horseracing. Television further enhanced this popularity of sporting events with Australians able to watch their sporting hero's all over the world. Satellite has improved on television by providing ... we can watch a soccer game played in Spain between teams from Italy and France. The invention of the light bulb meant that games could use flood lights to light up huge areas such as a cricket or footy oval, allowing sport to play during the evening ... and night. This allows spectators w...

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... ancient kings being carried by their disciples to chauffeurs escorting around the worlds richest man has looked for a more speedy and comfortable transit. The invention of the wheel has forever changed the world, by leading to the chariot; a two wheel cart towed by horses, to the late 1800's when ... The milestone vehicle was built in Germany in 1889 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. Powered by a 1.5 hp, two-cylinder gasoline engine, it had a four-speed transmission and traveled at 10 mph. Another German, Karl Benz, also built a gasoline-powered car the same year. The gasoline-powe...

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... . After many attempts and failures because the vehicle was too heavy the U.S. army finally adopted the Ford 6x6, which the design called it, the M8 light armored car. "There were over 8500 M8's built between the years of 1942 and 1943."" 3(www.robertsarmory.com A Traveling World War II History Museum. Copyright: 1995) When designing the M8 the army had three main concerns ... ; it had 4 speeds in forward and 1 in reverse with an additional high or low speed selector creating a total of ten speeds. The headlights found on the vehicle were designed to be easily removed for storing during th...

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... especially in hot conditions or when used by inexperienced operators. Consequently machine guns would often be grouped together to maintain a constant defensive position. Estimates of their equivalent, accurate, rifle firepower varied, with some estimating a single machine gun to be worth as many as 60-100 rifles: a more ... hp engine, it could remain aloft for over three hours. By the end of the war aircraft were designed for specific tasks. Built for speed and manoeuvrability, the SE5a fighter of 1917 was powered by a 200 hp engine and had a top speed of 222 km/h (138 mph). Britain's m...

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... second paper presented a mathematical theory of the motion of molecules. The third paper most famous paper was the special theory of relativity. An example of his theory of relativity was, if there were twins and if one twin flew into space in a rocket going near the speed of light, and returned after 40 years ... , he would appear to have aged only slightly, whereas his identical twin who had remained on earth would be old and wrinkled. This was due to the slowing down of time for the man on the ... said that all mass is equivalent to energy. It is the most famous formulas ever to come ...

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... the atomic bomb against Japan? An a-bomb creates a huge amount of energy. About half of this energy is used to create a blast wave. The release of huge amounts of energy and power that in a fraction of seconds it makes a blast effect that travels at the rate of about 20.1 km per min., that's greater than the speed of sound. (The Atomic Bomb (2001). Geo Cities.) The hypocenter is ... the greatest amount of pressure-exerted witch is about 35 tonnes per sq. meter and ... in the center. The reversed winds begin blowing towards the center from outside areas with the intensity of another bla...

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... navy would be defeated but only after they had recorded record number victories. As was done in World War I the German Navy's first line of business was to limit the British resources. The first attack in engaging this campaign came not more than ten hours after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlains ... (MM-WEB). Their was a waiting period because of a number of factors, they had to wait to assemble the convoy, a longer route had to be taken, and the speed had to be reduced to match the slowest ship (MM-WEB). It took a long period of time but eventually the British convoy system became st...

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... 't use their radios so they couldn't be detected. By November 22nd the striking force assembled at Kurie Island. The striking force was commanded by Vice Admiral Nagumo, which was consisted of 2 Fleet carriers, 2 light carriers, 2 carriers convented from a battleship and a crusier, 2 battleships, 2crusiers, a destroyer, and 8 supported ships. Four days later it sailed under cover with a storm that moved the same ... speed across the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese where guided to the target by a local radio station playing music. When the first wave arrived at Pearl Harbor the clouds opened ...

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... poetry. His work at this time dealt with molecules, and how their motion affected temperature, but he is most well known for his Special Theory of Relativity which tackled motion and the speed of light. Perhaps the most important part of his discoveries was the equation: E= mc2. After publishing these theories Einstein was promoted at his office. He remained at the Patents Office for another ... two years, but his name was becoming too big among the scientific community. In 1908, Einstein began teaching party time at the University of Berne, and the following ... by the government, and...

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... were caught off guard. Another piece of pioneering technology that was invented was the "Tank." The Tank was designed early in the war but was deemed impractical, due to its lack of speed, inadaptability to various surfaces and its cumbersome design. However, Winston Churchill, head of navy, thought that the idea had ... potential and so he funded the development of the tank. It was two years after this that the Tank was ... dug in trenches. Stalemate had set in; exactly the same problem at the Western Front. Nothing had been achieved except the success of the evacuation of troops toward...

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... gain an advantage over their counterpart, the Axis powers. Bill Coleman was one of the brave ones that became part of the airborne division. The 101st Airborne Division, otherwise known as the "Screaming Eagles" is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault. This division was activated 16 August 1942. ... Sgt. Coleman was admitted into the division in 1943. For over a year, he fought for his life in the European theater of operations. He was captured by the Nazis and held ... describes how his plane was hit during the mission, which forced him to parachute out o...

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... the Internet, and soon it may take our research method to a new level. M. Foley writes about it in the January 2002 issue of the "College and Research Libraries"; "IM presents an alternative for librarian seeking to speed up the delivery of reference services. (...) In addition to immediacy, convenience, and accessibility, online reference offers other advantages. Patrons who are embarrassed by the nature ... of their question or their lack of knowledge can remain anonymous during IM reference." Instant Messaging Reference in an Academic Library: A Case Study. This ... only good. In ge...

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... Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan 4 Major Allied Powers - US, UK, France, USSR Rhineland - section of Western Germany declared a Demilitarized Zone by the treaty of Versailles Appeasement - the policy of giving in to demands - Start: Occupation of Rhineland - End: Invasion of Poland Blitzkrieg - "lightning war- which stressed speed and surprise; Stuka bombers, tanks smash defenses, knock out communication Luftwaffe - German Air Force RAF - British ... the US during the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers,...

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... could see smoke and fires creeping up the sides of the mountain." The atomic bomb wiped out 4.1 square miles of Hiroshima. That is about sixty percent of the city. The atomic bomb crashed with the explosive power of 20,000 tons of TNT. The explosion from the bomb was indescribably loud. There was a tremendous fireball of white light. This fireball was a hundred times brighter than the sun ... and was 250 feet in diameter. The fireball sucked up millions of tons of dust and debris and formed a mushroom cloud that rained radioactive material on the ... the bomber. After the bomb was drop...

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... humanity" (Allen, 2003a, p.1). Instead of using their effective power to speed up the Court's progress, the USA are impeding the development of the process. As Popovski recalls Zwanenburg stating, without the cooperation of the "only global superpower, not only would the efficiency of the ICC be severely impeded, but also the current level of peacekeeping operations would be difficult or even ... can admire a commander who protects his or her servicemen with such resolve" (Popovski, 2000, p.416). Other reasons for not ratifying the Rome Statue have come to light. American opponents of t...

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... in 1980, tensions between the three main ethnic groups quickly mounted throughout the early 1980s. In1990, elections in Bosnia resulted in a governing group of three ethnically-based parties which corresponded to the three major ethnic groups. Muslims and Croats in the governing body favored independence for Bosnia-Herzegovina, ... Milosevic, had removed its members from the government. In March Serbian paramilitary forces, reinforced by the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav National Army, began a campaign of terror in eastern Bosnia. By early May the Yugoslav Army announced that it would withd...

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... was determined to catch up and eventually surpass the western nations . "Indeed the first 2 decades of the Emperor Meiji's reign saw a Japan to all appearances intoxicated with the strong wine of Western thought, technique and custom" -Richard Storry 1969, A history of modern Japan, Penguin The astonishing speed in which the restoration came about can be attributed to the Japanese belief system ... of hard work and stressed importance on the group unit, which originated in the cultural teachings of Confucianism. Combined with this cultural attitude, Japan ... materials as cotton, food a...

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... either split or fused to create new atoms. The binding energies within atoms are many measures of order greater than the binding energies of molecules. The amount of energy available within an atom is given by Einstein's famous formula E=MC2, where E = energy, M = the mass and C = the speed of light. Thus the energy available equals the mass multiplied by 9,000,000,000,000,000,000. ... As a result, a nuclear bomb using a kilogram of plutonium could have the same explosive force of approximately 15 million kilograms of TNT. There ... are two main types of nuclear weapons, Atom bombs and ...

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... . A good example of this war of attrition was Operation Starlite, which inflicted a 12:1 kill ratio on the Vietcong. Westmoreland's strategy demanded troops because the number of American soldiers in Vietnam stretched into the hundreds of thousands The years preceding 1969 saw a shift in US military policy, including the implementation of bombing campaigns such as Rolling Thunder and Arc Light strikes. The tonnage of bombs dropped in ... Vietnam actually outstripped the tonnage of bombs dropped in World War II. Nonetheless, target selection ... out faster then the all leather boot that ...

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... annoying things to worry about, and now we have to worry about these "new nuclear" countries. These countries have just acquired the capability of firing a nuclear missile and starting world war III. So now, every morning I wake up and turn on the news, praying that some ... And finally, biological are a real treat, because they can either be as easy to make as chemical weapons and have the destructive force of nuclear weapon. Chemical weapons are attractive to many countries, because it is easy to manufacture and it is relatively cheap to make. They ... can be different in "mode (how i...

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