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    Here, truncated applies to cutting off the edges which makes the icosahedron look more round ("Icosahedron," 2014). The truncated icosahedron has 32 total faces including 12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons with 90 edges and 60 vertices ("Truncated

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    9/11 Research Paper

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    The Lie of 9/11 9/11 was of the biggest “terrorist attack” in the United States History. Many building was destroyed in this single day. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the pentagon, and crash in field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania. The day of 9/11 was a conspiracy. The major of San Francisco (Willie Brown) was warned not to fly on September 11. Major Willie Brown said it a interview that it was a “ongoing myth”(Matier, Ross). If so why did he call his security people

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    9/11 Research Paper

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    So It was a sad moment for the people that lost their lives that day the day of September 9,2001 or a shorter word 9/11. The people that hit the two Twin Towers and the Pentagon and one was going for the White House but there was a fight in the plane that was going to the White House. But the plane was crashing in a field at Pennsylvania. So, every year at 9/11 they will have a memory for the people that died that day from the two Twin Towers. So, if you will try to go too see the twin towers they

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    in Norway, or the Pentagon memorial in Washington D.C. but every memorial has a story behind it. The Gateway arch is very well know in the United States for its unique structure but the story behind this amazing piece of structure isn't very well know. The Gateway arch is built to commemorate the westward expansion of the United States. In 1948 competition for the memorial

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    New York Times Case

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    McNamara who was the secretary of defense, ordered a secret study to be done at the pentagon about the effects that the United States policies had on the Vietnam War. The study takes roughly 3 years and ends up being over two million words in length. Daniel Ellsberg who worked at the pentagon in the 1970’s ended up coming across the pentagon papers and was quite disturbed about its content. Certain content from the pentagon papers essentially casts a bad shadow on the actions of the United States government

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    Dadt Pros And Cons

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    in January of 2010, starting with the Pentagon. Chairman Powell of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was a focal point in the 1993 policy, and the same would be true in 2010. Admiral Mike Mullen was the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Obama, and he announced in the first weeks of January that he had assembled a small group to internally discuss “how gay men and lesbians might be able to serve openly in the armed services” (Bumiller “Pentagon Steps”). Although it was unclear if these

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    people from the Islamic extremist group al - Qaeda, hijacked four planes. Two of the airplanes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. One plane circled over Washington D.C. before hitting the west side of the Pentagon. The last plane landed in a field in Pennsylvania after it was brought down by the passengers, but the destination was not known. A total of 2999 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks (History.com Staff.). World Trade Center

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    Why I Don 't Think?

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    could be the cause. Many people started talking about 9/11 as a government act, saying that Bush set it all up to make a good excuse to go to war with the terrorists mostly for oil purposes. Many people to this day don’t know what to believe. The Pentagon crash, the Pennsylvania crash, and the World Trade Center buildings 1, 2, and 7’s collapse: It’s a lot to cover up if it was in fact a government act. It was impossible for the government to make and cover up a “False Flag Operation,” and that there

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    Why Did 9/11 A Lie?

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    wasn’t just planes that caused the towers to fall and the Pentagon to be damaged. There was another factor, another piece of the puzzle. We just need to figure out what it was. Many people, including the US Government say that a plane hit the Pentagon. According to these people, a terrorist hijacked the plane and flew it with amazing skill and crashed into a near vacant part of the Pentagon. But the evidence just doesn’t add up. The Pentagon was not hit by a plane. First off, the hole was much to

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    people from the Islamic extremist group al - Qaeda, hijacked four airplanes. Two of the airplanes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. One plane circled over Washington D.C. before hitting the west side of the Pentagon. The last plane landed in a field in Pennsylvania, after is was brought down by the passengers, but the destination was not known. A total of two thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks (History

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