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Weapons of the Civil War: Why Did The North Win?      Battles have been fought since the dawn of time. Weapons have gradually become more technological and sophisticated each and every time. People learn from their mistakes, as did the Indians in the late 1700s, as well as the Confederate troops from the Civil War. The Union was victorious in this war for freedom, and to this day, the north is more the heart of the country’s economy.      Weapons have been around from the Neanderthals of the

On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), was allegedly shot by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald somehow single handedly shot Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, using a Carcano Model 91/38 which is a cheap, military surplus rifle with a telescopic sight. Afterwards, Oswald killed the policeman who had questioned him. When Oswald was finally found and taken to the Dallas Police Station, a large crowd of angry citizens and news teams had amassed. A pugnacious man by the name of Jack Ruby fatally

Trench Warfare World War 1 is perhaps best known for being a war fought in trenches, ditches dug out of the ground to give troops protection from enemy artillery and machine-gun fire. The trenches spread from the East to the West. By the end of 1914, trenches stretched all along the 475 miles front between the Swiss border and the Channel coast. The trench system on the Western Front consisted of front-line, support and reserve trenches. The three rows of trenches covered between 200 and 500

unreliable, as two witnesses contradicts one another. Bonnie Williams said he ate lunch on the sixth floor and left at 12:20, he recalls nobody being there. While watching the parade Arnold Williams said he saw a man holding a rifle with a telescopic sight at about 12:15 (on 6th floor). Arnold Williams statement seems suspicious as it should of alarmed him more. Source H infers it was unlikely Oswald was a lone

"Utopia: n .an impractical idealistic scheme for social and political reform" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition For over twenty years the Iraqi-born, English educated architect Zaha Hadid has symbolized the vanguard of contemporary architecture. She has pushed back the boundaries of built form to forge a highly individualist architectonic language that is at once thrillingly dynamic and intensely thoughtful, and as a result now has an enormous following

In late November of the year 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy visited the state of Texas. While there he planned to attend a lunch in Dallas to raise money for the Democratic party. It was decided that the President would travel by motorcade from the airfield at which he landed in Dallas to this fundraiser. Unfortunately, President Kennedy never arrived at this lunch. As the Presidential motorcade drove through an area in Dallas known as Dealey Plaza, shots rang out. One of these shots fatally

Joshuwa Shelton Professor Lowe Modern America Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy: compared lives and deaths November 22, 1963, Dallas Texas, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy rode along the streets of Dallas, Texas in an open top motorcade. The president’s vehicle turns onto ELM ST. passing the Texas School Book Depository. When the limousine turned onto ELM ST. Nellie Connally turned to look at President Kennedy and said, “You sure cant say that Dallas doesn’t love you, Mr. President.” Ironically

Trip into My Heritage Sitting on the plane alone, I wondered what the next three weeks would bring. The light hum of the plane’s engines seemed to go on forever and the dry stale air began to scratch the inside of my throat. My destination was The Netherlands, where the entirety of my family lives. Throughout my youth seeing my family was a rare occasion, once a year if we were lucky, but after my parents divorced, we stopped going altogether. It had been over eight years since I had last visited

Moses' Final Days The life of Moses is highly instructive from many standpoints. We have been thinking together about various aspects of the life of Moses, and we have seen that even his birth and his early years were years of great value, not only from the standpoint of what God was going to do with his life, but from the standpoint of instruction for us. The interesting thing is that not only were the early days of Moses instructive for us, and not only were the details of his life as a young

The punch, combined with the added force that came from the spiked knuckles attached to his dagger, was enough to bring Zee down on the ground, resulting in her to drop her weapon as it fell down the stairs toward where Harold and Margaret helplessly stood. Once she was on the ground, his dagger pointing downwards, the Adelburger swiftly proceeded to stab directly into Zee’s heart, before pulling out a pistol, a custom made Sig Sauer P220 chambered for .38 Super, to finish her off. Thankfully, he