... nothing ever seen or heard before. "These machines were based on simple analog electronics. They used electric voltages to create and control sounds. Higher voltages would make higher notes and lower voltages made lower notes. Several small companies began to make instruments, all based on the concept of control voltage (CV). Short electrical cables called patch cords would feed the control voltages ... and yards of patch cord in a pre-performance ritual that would take hours. Production continued in this fashion until "Oberheim company introduced the first commercial polyphonic (able t...

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... into custody by the Russians, after more than a yr of being treated more like a prisoner than internees escaped thru Iran One flight engineer/gunner dangled until daylight in a tree atop a cliff Doolittle landed in a rice paddy managed to gather his 4 other crew members in a matter of days "Well I guess they'll send me to Leavenworth."" Many Chinese had never seen an ... ...

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... packed together which made a great target for Japanese submarines and warplanes. Although most of the ships moored at Pearl Harbor were destroyed, most of them were later repaired. One author notes the losses in ships as such: By the time the attack was over, every battleship in Pearl Harbor-The U.S.S. Arizona, U.S.S. Oklahoma, U.S.S. California, U.S.S. West Virginia, U.S.S. Utah, U.S.S. Maryland, U.S.S. Pennsylvania, U.S.S. Tennessee, and The ... ...

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... and potentially working from home, but even then they cannot seem to find a husband or man that is financially stable, and able to "afford" a housewife. T. B. from The Economist notes that, "Women shun marriage and children because Japan's old-fashioned corporate culture, together with a dire shortage of childcare, would force them to give up their careers." The government ... ...

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Fukuzawa Yukuzawa has one of the best-known faces in Japan, as his portrait appears on 10,000 yen bank notes. He was a leading intellectual figure and educational reformer of the later nineteenth century. This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments ... ...

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... both as a teacher and as a student. He was a strong advocate of equality. He did not make distinctions among his students based on anything more than levels of educations as he notes that, heaven did not make us higher or lower at birth, but instead we make ourselves higher or lowing depending on the education we receive. Fukuzawa proved to be a dynamic ... ...

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... to Japan." (Granastein and Johnson 111) Further on in the paragraph Granastein and Johnson conclude that: Nakano's book demonstrates that the same response existed in British Columbia, and even Sanahara notes that the Japanese vice-consul encouraged some Japanese Canadians to seek interment as a gesture of support for Japan. Those of Japanese origin, of course formed a greater proportion of the Hawaiian ... ...

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... placement in the story as second does not necessarily render it less important, but instead subsidiary. Next the reasons they commit suicide are reiterated as the text of their "farewell" notes, drawing the comparison of love for ones country to the love in a new marriage. The couple is referred to as dedicated, heroic, youthful, and beautiful. Yukio Mishima values youth, and ... ...

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... and make recommendations on post war research, development and controls, as well as legislation necessary to effectuate them." Something interesting to note is that not, in any of the meeting notes was there any mention of the committee's involvement in the decision to drop the bomb. The committee was perhaps purposely misinformed of the power of the atomic bomb- this lack ... ...

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