On the morning of April 29, 1986. ... Approximately forty five percent of the on duty fire department resources were committed to this fire. ... Eighty five percent of the total value of the structure was saved. ... The fire attack teams in the area came across problems as the team experienced extremely high temperatures, heavy smoke, narrow aisles, and very limited access to the fire. ... The hot spots were being found, piles of burned books were being found up to five days prior to the fire. ...

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Once he got across the open ground, the assaulting troops were protected from Spanish fire by the crest of the hill itself. ... They had retreated to trenches across a ravine from the slope of the hill. ... I leapt a barbed wire fence only to notice that only five of my men had followed me! ... In love of my country, Theodore Roosevelt Work Cited "The Crowded Hour".1999.April 2, 2003. ... May 10, 1999.April 2, 2003. ...

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Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian town of Branau on the 20th of April 1889. ... Although he was sentenced to five years imprisonment, he had now become a national figure and was treated well. ... Over thirty-five million Germans had voted for the Nazis, which had now made them the second largest party in parliament. ... In an unwavering three-week campaign, the party organised 300 meetings a day across Germany. ... Because of this a second round of voting was conducted on the 10th of April. ...

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Anne Shakespeare was buried on April 4, 1579. ... His funeral was costly and amazing, with tolling bells heard across the town. ... It included the alphabet in small letters and capitals, with combinations of the five vowels with b, c, and d, and the Lord's Prayer in English. ... {{{{{{WRITING, ACTING, ETC}}}}}}}}} The great poet died on April 23, 1616. ... The funeral of William Shakespeare occurred on 25th of April. ...

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On the evening of April 8, Lee and his army were near Appomattox Court House, where they discovered the Union Calvary command blocking their way. ... Grant is five feet eight with slightly stooped shoulders, rendering him shorter than his actual height. ... Several soldiers carried the Lincoln across the street to a house and placed him on a bed. ... On April 18th the body was carried to the Capitol rotunda to lie in state. ... In the course of the five week march, he cut himself off from his source of supplies and communication and had his men live off the land. ...

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Eudora Welty's Life in the South Eudora Welty was born to a "Yankee" father and a mother on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. ... According to mythology, every five hundred years, the bird would cross the desert on a journey to restore its youth. ... Her first name, Phoenix, came from the link between the mythological bird that would travel across the desert all of the time, and the fact of Phoenix traveling the Natchez Trail. ...

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While Cesar Chavez is more widely known than Dolores Huerta, Dolores started the Latino movement across the country. Born on April 10, 1930, Dolores Clara Fernandez, was born in Dawson, New Mexico. ... She soon divorced her first husband and later remarried to Ventura Huerta and raised five children. ...

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Give more examples of his tone or attitude toward war and the words and techniques he uses to get this across . ... Brooke's sonnets were popular and in 1915 20,000 copies of Brooke's Five sonnets were printed. ... • Brooke never experience the trenches; he died in April 1915 and just missed the Gallipoli campaign. ... • Died in the trenches while leading men across the Sambre Canel in 1918 • Sought to speak of and for the common solider and to show the suffering and horror. ...

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Without the contributions of Samuel de Champlain, New France and Quebec would not have survived the beginning In his first few expeditions across the Atlantic, he commanded a Spanish fleet sailing to the West Indies, Mexico, and the Isthmus of Panama. ... Le Don de Dieu sailed from Honfleur on April 13, 1608, raised Cape St Mary's, Nfld, on May 26 and reached Tadoussac on June 3. ... One of the conspirators lost his nerve and told Champlain, who arrested the gang of five. A hastily arranged trial found all five guilty. ...

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Without the contributions of Samuel de Champlain, New France and Quebec would not have survived the beginning In his first few expeditions across the Atlantic, he commanded a Spanish fleet sailing to the West Indies, Mexico, and the Isthmus of Panama. ... Le Don de Dieu sailed from Honfleur on April 13, 1608, raised Cape St Mary's, Nfld, on May 26 and reached Tadoussac on June 3. ... One of the conspirators lost his nerve and told Champlain, who arrested the gang of five. A hastily arranged trial found all five guilty. ...

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Each nation may send not more than five representatives to each session. ... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the (North)Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. ... NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. ... In April 1951, Allied Command Europe and its headquarters (SHAPE) were established; later, four subordinate headquarters were added in No...

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He got out of his car and stroll across the street, where he rented a room at the Bessie Brewer's Rooming House. ... He could hear the screams across the street. ... Five days after King was shot, police found a Memphis hotel reservation on April 3 for Eric Starvo Galt, who listed a Birmingham, Alabama address and drove a white Mustang. Galt stayed at the Rebel Motel in Memphis for one night: April 3. ... He was assassinated in Memphis by a sniper on April 4. ...

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It is cold and freezing tonight, the chilling breeze and the whistling of the wind is blowing across my face. The only apparent light is projected from the moon's white ray of light, shining across the desert. ... It all changed my life three years ago on April 10, 2000. On that day I enlisted in the US Army for a contracted three years and five years reserve commitment. ... UCMJ punishments can mean fourteens days to forty-five days of restrictions and pay is taken. ...

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On the night of April 14, 1912, shortly after 11:30 p.m., the passenger liner R.M.S. ... On April 2, 1912, Titanic set sail from Belfast on her sea trials. ... By the morning of April 10, 1912, she was sitting in Southampton, England, taking aboard her first passengers. ... Daybreak, April 12, 1912, Titanic was well on her way to the North Atlantic, running at twenty-one knots. ... Early morning, April 14, 1912, Titanic continued on course into the heart of the North Atlantic, she covered another 546 miles on this day. ...

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All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy. ... It would be the first large scale operation to take place this year and would begin five days later. ... His escape was narrow; they (the soldiers) could see Richmond burn as they made their way across the James River and to the west. Grant had finally broke through and Richmond and Petersburg were finished on the second day of April. ... LINCOLN VISITS FALLEN RICHMOND On April 4th, after visiting Petersburg briefly, President Lincoln decided to visit the fallen city of Richmond. ...

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All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy. ... It would be the first large scale operation to take place this year and would begin five days later. ... His escape was narrow; they (the soldiers) could see Richmond burn as they made their way across the James River and to the west. Grant had finally broke through and Richmond and Petersburg were finished on the second day of April. ... LINCOLN VISITS FALLEN RICHMOND On April 4th, after visiting Petersburg briefly, President Lincoln decided to visit the fallen city of Richmond. ...

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Realize or Relapses On April 10, 1970 President George Washington signed a bill that laid out the bases for our current American Patent System. ... This corporation charges people a twenty-five hundred dollar fee, on top of what the doctor charges, to test for their cell (Hylton 109). ... Syndicates across America are capitalizing on human suffering, and by accepting cell patents, the United States government is telling them it is okay to continue to do so. ...

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Hence, Columbine and other school shootings across the nation in recent years. ... At about 11:30am on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 two students dressed in black trench coats entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado with shot guns, and proceeded to open fire on everyone that moved. ... Fifteen students and faculty were killed, and twenty-five were left either with injuries. ...

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While the age range varies from as young as seven to forty five it is obvious slave traders and buyers aren't particular about the lives they wish to destroy. ... In April, a CIA report verified that as many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe are brought to the United States every year under false pretenses. ... The sexual exploitation of American children cuts across every economy, ethic, and social line. ...

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On April of 2002 our school took us on a field trip that lasted three day at the Mall of America. ... Imagine being high in the air going in circles upside down and having nothing but a bar across your chest to hold you in for three minutes at a time that seems to last forever. ... After waiting in line for almost twenty-five minutes, I was finally instructed to get in a hollowed-out log. ...

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Kent Stat's expanding student enrollment from five thousand in 1954 to over twenty-one thousand by 1966, and the construction of more dormitories signalled Kent's transformation from a commuter and teacher's college to a residential and academically comprehensive institution. ... In April, President White described the Kent Committee's Organizers as publicity-seeking martyrs and argued that the goals "are distasteful to the overwhelming majority of us. ... As at many Campuses across the country, the announcement by President Nixon late thursday night, April 30, that America...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Branau, Austria, a small town across the inn River from Germany. ... Hitler only served nine of those months in prison; while in prison, Hitler, at the age of thirty-five, wrote his famous Mein Kempf (My Struggle). ... Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945 and seven days later, Germany surrendered....

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Five other children followed: four boys and one girl. ... It was a national success, receiving good reviews from across the country. ... In April of 1894, Chopin wrote "The Dream of an Hour," known today as "The Story of an Hour." ... It was not published, however, until April 22, 1899. ...

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He was someone who was considered to be a hero in the eyes of Americans after his nonstop flight across the Atlantic. ... Orteig was offering, over the next five years, twenty-five thousand dollars to the first person or group that flew from New York to Paris. ... On May 20, 1927, he was ready and set out on his journey across the Atlantic. ... Hauptmann was on trial for five weeks in Flemington, New Jersey. ... With all this now in place, Hauptmann was put to his death in the electric chair on April 3, 1936 in the state of New Jersey. ...

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The Islamic Republic has ruled the more than twenty-five hundred year old nation of Iran for the last thirty-three years. ... On April 1,1979 a national referendum was held and the Islamic Republic of Iran was created. ... Among these opposition groups, the mullahs' voices were the loudest; it was the clergy, whose network of mosques spread out across the country, who had standing centers from which to raise their voices and organize. ... The Iraqi army had laid mines across much of its border, and the Iranian command used these young recruits as human minesweepers, sending them across...

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