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Life on Alcatraz Summary
31,415 words, approx. 105 pages
 For thousands of years, prisons have been used to separate criminals from law-abiding citizens. Before the eighteenth century, common penalties for criminal acts included exile, execution, and various methods of corporal punishments. Jails were viewed...
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Alcatraz Island Information
7,338 words, approx. 25 pages
 Alcatraz Island (sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or by its pop-culture name, The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. It served as a lighthouse, then a military...




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Alcatraz Island: Memoirs of a Rock Doc. (Bookshelf).
06/01/2002: 665 words, approx. 2 pages Alcatraz Island Memoirs of a Rock Doc, by Milton Daniel Beacher, MD., edited by Dianne Beacher Perfit, Pelican Island Publishing, 2001, 292 pp. Alcatraz Island: Memoirs of a Rock Doc is the personal account of a physician stationed at the prison in...
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Alcatraz Is Not an Island
11/01/2002: 190 words, approx. 1 pages James Fortier. 60 minutes. Turtle Island Productions. On November 20, 1969, sometime after 2 a.m., a fleet of wooden sailboats holding 90 Native Americans landed on Alcatraz. For the next 19 months, the group forcibly occupied the island, hoping to reclaim the rock...
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San Francisco to go dark, save energy
9/20/2007: 332 words, approx. 1 pages The Golden Gate Bridge, City Hall, Alcatraz and other parts of the city will go almost completely dark for an hour next month as part of a campaign to conserve energy and fight global warming.Organizers of Lights Out San Francisco are asking city residents and...
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Today in history - May 4
5/4/2007: 559 words, approx. 2 pages Today is Friday, May 4, the 124th day of 2007. There are 241 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 4, 1945, during World War II, German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender.On this date:In 1626, Dutch explorer...



Featured Essays
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A Brief History of Alcatraz
521 words, approx. 2 pages
 Alcatraz, also known as "The Rock," is a well-known yet mysterious island near San Francisco that served as a notorious U.S. prison.


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