... of electronic music because they all used electronic instruments. A group of Germans got together in 1972 and formed the first purely electronic band and called themselves Kraftwerk. They used electronic drum machines that looked like huge computers and took electronic conception to the extreme. Other artists came out; there must be someone in this class that has heard of Jean Michelle ... , pedophiles that we all listened to as we grew up. However the style of music that preserved the category of Electronic Music is what we know today as House, Trance, Drum & Bass, Jungle, Ambient (like...

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... 60,000 Canadian soldiers died in World War I. Canada, automatically entered the war in 1914 when Great Britain did, this was unquestioned and greatly supported by the people of Canada, coast to coast. Even though Canada's regular army started out relatively small and weak, within two weeks of the conflict's start, over 32,000 men had enlisted into the army and had ... the sea as Germany was determined to starve the British people into submission by destroying their sea communications and cutting them off from overseas supplies. Gaining control of the entire coast of Europe , the Germans...

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... the four colonies to capitulate. It fell to the Allies rather quickly. Togoland was attacked on two sides, by the British from the Gold Coast and the French from Dahomey. Part of the reason that Togoland fell so quickly was that it was the only German colony not to have ... Togoland occurred and the Allies drove back the Germans, while suffering 17% casualties . A couple days later after more forces invaded Togoland from the Gold Coast and Dahomey, the Germans blew up their wireless station and called for terms. The British demanded unconditional surrender. On August 26th the acting Germ...

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... that bulkhead-designed cruisers should not enter war zones without a warship escort. It was arranged for the British cruiser, Juno, to escort the Lusitania through the war zone off the coast of Ireland. Admiral Fisher organized a meeting at the Admiralty and together they resolved to withdraw the Juno from the waters off of the ... coast of Southern Ireland. They failed to inform Captain Turner of this change of events, however, and the Captain sailed unknowingly into the war zone. (Source 6) At 1:20 PM on May 7, ... 1915, a German submarine, U-20, surfaced to recharge its batteries of...

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... any of them assumed to be dangerous (Armor 13). Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt was the Western Defense Commander. Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, DeWitt declared the West Coast of the United States and Alaska a "theater of operations." This made the area a war zone. DeWitt commenced with random raids of Japanese homes and seized guns, radios, and cameras from ... were required to report to processing centers. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 20, 1942 printed: 100,000 Japs Now Cleared From Coast- Almost 100,000 Japanese have already been moved form their We...

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... that bulkhead-designed cruisers should not enter war zones without a warship escort. It was arranged for the British cruiser, Juno, to escort the Lusitania through the war zone off the coast of Ireland. Admiral Fisher organized a meeting at the Admiralty and together they resolved to withdraw the Juno from the waters off of the ... coast of Southern Ireland. They failed to inform Captain Turner of this change of events, however, and the Captain sailed unknowingly into the war zone. (Source 6) At 1:20 PM on May 7, ... 1915, a German submarine, U-20, surfaced to recharge its batteries of...

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... in attempt to keep out the deadly fumes. "It seemed as if my lungs were gradually shutting up and my heart pounded away in my ears like the beast of a drum. On looking at the chap next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth as he died." During an attack soldiers would fix ... ...

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... football in winter with the occasional schoolyard fight in-between. Everyday after recess the children would lines up in two lines and march into class with the sounds of the drum and whistle behind them. James had dearly wanted to play the drums and couldn't wait until he was twelve to join the junior cadets. James's dream did come true he ... ...

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... , Hungary and the Balkans. In the battle of the Atlantic, the German submarine fleet was virtually destroyed. The final Allied campaign began with the invasion of Normandy, on the northwestern coast of France on June 6 1944 at 12:15 A.M. The invasion was code named "Operation Overlord". This operation would come to be known as D-Day. D-Day is a military term designating the ... an active month for all fronts. The Russian army crossed into Poland and in Italy the Allies were blocked by a heavily fortified Rome. The Allies began landing on the eastern coast of Italy attempting to open the ...

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... stories Hemingway looked back on his African safaris from 1934. Most of the source material for The Old Man and the Sea comes from Hemingway's own experiences fishing off the coast of Cuba. Hemingway spent more than two decades of his life living on the island, and fishing was one of his favorite activities. Another episode in 1940 may have also ... are at the health centers either working or recuperating. "The Killers- took place in an American city around the 1920's. "The Old Man and the Sea- takes place off the coast of Cuba where Santiago catches the Marlin. Santiago is from a small...

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... products became more important to business owners. Through mass production, Henry Ford made it possible for people to buy a Ford automobile for less than $300. Now people could go from coast to coast in only 13 days. This was a phenomenal achievement for the period. As more products were manufactured, advertising became an important role in selling an item. Advertising became immensely huge ... ...

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... , so that the men could go into combat. Being enrolled in the WAC required at least four weeks of training in one of the training centers located along the East coast. The women served both at home and overseas as cooks, typists, postal workers, operators, radar specialists, drivers, and much more. Being a WAC was a dangerous job. During the war, 181 WACs ... of emergency. The women's success in these three services opened many doors for them in the future. Several other services began to recruit women, such as the Marines, the US Coast Guard, and the Air Force. Women were also allowed t...

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... 1944 to August 1944xiii and resulted in an Allied victory. It began on June 6th 1944, 156,000 American, British and also Canadian soldiersxiv landed on five beaches along the coast of the Normandy region located in France. The beaches have a total length of 50 miles and are heavily fortified by the German forcesxv. The American, British and Canadian forces landed ... ...

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... was easily picked up by the German forces. To go even further, the Allies built fake tanks and other forces to fool the German satellites, and placed them on the coast. The Germans responded by sending most of their forces to the site of the dummy invasion, and refused to move those forces even after D-Day. On June 6th, the U.S. Army ... ...

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... , the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor. Within a year, hundreds of thousands of American men from eighteen to thirty-nine years old were fighting in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The men left their wives, children and jobs. With no one working, how would the economy hold up, and how would the production of needed supplies be produced? Wives ... ...

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... his place. Cody asked him a few questions and found Gatsby to be quick and extraordinarily ambitious. A few days later when the Tuolomee departed for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast, Gatsby left with her. Gatsby was under Cody's employment for five years. Once Gatsby tasted riches, there was no going back. He knew that someday, he must obtain wealth as ... ...

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... mind, it was possible that the people of this land resorted to the sea as a source of food and nutrition. After all, it would make sense considering this embankment parallels a coast. This helped Dr. Flynn with her indigenous research. Artifact #3 had the team torn down two sides. On one side, there was the belief that this ancient society was monotheistic. This ... ...

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... you see the title of an article "American Position Defined." As you move on to page nine you see a little paragraph underneath the title "The Lusitania Sunk - Torpedoed of Irish Coast - NO WARNING - Many Notable Passengers - 2,160 Board - ONLY 658 KNOWN TO BE SAVED." "There were nearly two thousand souls on board, and for many hours there was no certain news ... ...

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... Germans, they even sent a fake first army, including dummy soldiers, tanks, and tent encampments. The night before D-Day, airborne divisions discovered German's hidden batteries, obstacles, and mines along the French coast. When thousands of U.S. troops invaded, Germans, unexpected of our arrival, were caught off guard. Capa and the unit, to which he was assigned, were dropped off 100 miles from the ... ...

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... were bound to mistakenly hit the wrong target, like a civilian liner. The Lusitania was that mistake. On May 7, 1915, Ballard explains, U-20 was returning from an excursion off the southern coast of Ireland when the captain, Walter Schweiger, spotted the Lusitania. He fired his last torpedo at her, hitting just forward of the stacks. A much larger explosion followed the torpedo blast ... ...

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... German overseas colonies were lost. It demanded a considerable loss of European territory and for the establishment of a Polish corridor, (to give Poland back its land and access to the Baltic Coast) which then separated East Prussia from the body of Germany. This was one of the terms that infuriated Germany the most, because they despised the Poles and believed they were ... ...

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... with their salaries; and also women taking over men's jobs in factories and many other work places. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met at sea off the North American coast in August 1941. They produced the Atlantic Charter that restated Woodrow Wilsor's Fourteen Points simpler. In 1943 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill conferred in Casablanca in January and in ... ...

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... power but reflect "a just government based upon law, not upon arbitrary or irregular force." With this, Wilson planned to overthrow Huerta. When a German ship was spotted landing on the eastern coast of Mexico, American forces intervened and took the city of Veracruz against heavy resistance. The Mexicans became outraged at this invasion and the two countries came close to war. However ... ...

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... infantry in a pincers movement to encircle the enemy (Blitzkrieg or Lightning war) and soon captured Poland, Norway, Denmark and Holland, while securing the control of Northern France and the Atlantic coast. However, and just like in WWI, the tide turned to the Allies in all 3 main fronts as from 1942 (Battle of Stalingrad in Russia, Battle of El Alamein in North ... ...

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... Allies defending. Normandy's terrain was the worst out of all the beaches that the Allies could have invaded. Normandy had high cliffs instead of beaches and it had a very rough coast. The strait in between Normandy Beach and the rendezvous point was extremely rough. Soldiers who have never been sea sick in their life were on that day. The waves would ... ...

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