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The idea of nothingness and emptiness has inspired and puzzled mathematicians, physicists, and even philosophers. What does empty space mean? If the space is empty, does it have any physical meaning or purpose? From the mathematical point ...
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Formed under the name Still Life in rural Jamestown, New York in February 1981, 10,000 Maniacs became noted for its melodic folk music and the wistful lyricism and distinct vocal patterns of its lead singer, Natalie Merchant. After releasi...
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Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose Reginald Rose was born in New York City on December 10, 1920. After graduating from City College he worked at a series of odd jobs, including a receiving clerk, window cleaner, and camp counselor. He then s...
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1,3-butadiene Overview 1,3-butadiene (one-three-byoo-tah-DYE-een) is a colorless gas with a mild, slightly sweet odor. It occurs naturally in petroleum, from which it is extracted at refineries. The compound was first discovered in petroleu...
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In the late sixteenth century, Europeans began journeying to the region in North America that became the original thirteen colonies. Many explorers reported on the features of the land and the customs of native peoples. But their primary g...
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Australasia 1890 On 15 August 1890 the Steamship Owners' Association told the Melbourne, Australia, branch of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association that it would not negotiate a wage claim with the marine officers...
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Music was an immensely popular form of entertainment in America in the first decade of the century, though not in the same way it is today. Americans did not buy prerecorded records or CDs and play them on stereo equipment. Instead, most A...
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Baseball continued to dominate the American sports scene in the 1910s. Attendance at professional baseball games remained high throughout the decade, rising slightly from 6,206,447 in 1910 to 6,532,439 in 1919; the numbers might have been ...
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Although gambling scandals have been a part of professional baseball since the sport's beginning, no scandal threatened the game's stature as "the national pastime" more than the revelations that eight members o...
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At the beginning of the decade, American business was adjusting to its new role in the world economy after the end of World War I (1914–18). During the war, America had supplied the Allied European participants with food, equipment,...
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4technology Changes Daily Life A wide range of exciting discoveries, developments, and advancements whose seeds had been planted in earlier years blossomed during the 1920s. What had once been the dreams and visions of farsighted scientist...
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South Africa 1922 In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners a...
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1891-1966 American aviator who, with John A. Macready, made the first nonstop flight across the United States. Kelly and Macready flew a single-engine Fokker T-2 monoplane from New York to San Diego on May 2-3, 1923, taking just under 27 h...
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American fashions shifted in the 1930s. The 1920s had been a decade of excess. Fashions for both young men and women—the "sheiks" and "flappers"—grew increasingly extravagant. The Great Depression ...
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Technological Change and Classical Film Style David Rordwell Kristin Thompson The 1930s was an era of enormous technological development in the Hollywood cinema. This chapter considers major changes in the look and sound of the studios' pr...
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World War II (1939–45) disrupted professional sports events. After the entrance of American troops into the war in 1941, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, many of the finest athletes joined the military. Some teams dis...
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World War II (1939–45) dominated serious print media from 1939 until most of the last troops returned from Europe in 1946. American newspapers and magazines focused intently on bringing news from the front to the doorsteps of almost...
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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) developed a nationwide gas rationing system that went into effect on December 1, 1942. The oil industry and its assigned wartime government coordinator, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (1874&...
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During the 1950s, many people suspect that this decade was occupied by conservatism and conformity but they are incorrect. This period was filled with rebellious groups and classes and the struggle for civil rights and wanted liberties....
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American Documentary in the 1950s JACK C. ELLIS American documentary can be thought of as a child of the Depression that came of age during World War II. The war years marked a high point of achievement in this mode: more filmmakers made m...
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The Asian Games are the major Pan-Asian sports festival in which athletes from nearly all Asian nations are allowed to compete. Beginning in 1954 with the second Games, the Games have been held every four years, in the year midway between ...
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Hungary 1956 In October 1956 a popular uprising in Hungary liquidated the Stalinist bureaucracy that had ruled the country since 1949. Imre Nagy, a reformist Communist Party member, became the head of a new government, supported by popula...
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The 1960s was a very turbulent time in American history. Cities across the country saw hundreds of incidents of racial violence. Various federal and state commissions were assembled to investigate the causes of these riots. Each individ...
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Conclusion In Hollywood feature production during the 1960s, the aesthetics of a cinema of sensation that emphasized increasingly graphic visual depictions and effects began to coexist alongside the classic cinema of sentiment and spectacl...
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Few who witnessed Tommie Smith's and John Carlos's black power salute on the medal stand on 16 October, 1968, following their gold and bronze medal performances in the 200 meters at the Mexico City Olympic Games, could remain...
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When journalist Tom Wolfe (1931–) surveyed the changes that had swept America in the past few years, he gave the decade a label that has stuck: "The Me Decade." Wolfe and others noticed that the dominant concerns of mo...
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Looking Back and Turning Inward: American Documentary Films of the Seventies WILLIAM ROTHMAN In the revised and expanded version of his invaluable history of nonfiction film, Richard Barsam sees the sixties as a high-water mark for the Ame...
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The year of 1973 marks one of the most important turning points in the history of the twentieth century. Prior to 1973, the world had become accustomed to a plentiful supply of inexpensive fossil fuels: coal, petroleum, and natural gas. ...
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Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal. After all, their pool included powerhouses such as Sweden and Czechoslovakia, while the other pool inc...
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Professional and major collegiate sports continued to expand in popularity during the decade, and they continued to be lavishly paid for by television programmers eager to attract an audience. Television became critical to sports, for it p...
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By the 1980s, American fashion recovered from polyester leisure suits and hot pants—the strange fashion trends of the 1970s—and became far more tasteful. Leading the way were the nation's president and first lady, Rona...
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American Documentary in the 1980s CARL PLANTINGA The 1980s brought remarkable developments to documentary film-flaking in the United States. The decade witnessed the emergence of several promising and innovative filmmakers; the bold explor...
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One of the biggest music stories of the 1980s actually involved a television network. A specialized cable channel, MTV (which stands for Music Television) went on the air in 1981. The cable channel soon made the music video an essential el...
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People Power Movement refers to the popular uprising that ousted Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos in February 1986. Also known as the EDSA Revolution, the uprising was in reaction to the massive fraud and violence unleashed by the ...
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In the 1990s, commerce became e-commerce and the nation was gripped in dot-com fever. The nation's economy had started off the decade in a slump. By the mid-1990s, however, the energizing force of what became known as the dot-com re...
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In the 1990s, fashion went casual as it never had before. From corporations to classrooms, people wore clothes that were comfortable and expressed their own sense of individuality. The trend probably began in American corporations with a t...
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South Africa was formerly ruled by a minority white population that denied political participation to the majority black population. During this time, black groups fought for recognition of their rights, including the right to self-govern...
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2 Live Crew, the primary progenitors of a hip-hop sub-genre called Miami Bass, will probably be better remembered for their important legal battles than their music. Their sexually explicit songs that often objectified women and which feat...
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Space Odyssey 2001 fits the definition of an epic. An epic can be defined as "a long narrative in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures important to the history and identity of a nation or people." Space Odysse...
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With the premiere on June 6, 1978 of its program 20/20, ABC Television launched its first ever news magazine. The youngest and the most troubled television network in the late 1970s, ABC was engaging in a major initiative to revise its new...
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Though commonly associated with the "roaring twenties," the popular catch phrase, "23 Skidoo," actually originated around the turn of the twentieth century. Its origin has been accredited to two contemporaneous ...
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A broad-leaf herbicide, now banned for use in the United States. Its full name is 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid. After postemergence treatment it is readily absorbed by foliage and roots and translocated throughout the plant. This herb...
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One of the nation's most popular weed killers, the herbicide 2,4-D (also known as 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) has been widely used by homeowners, timber companies, government agencies, farmers, and power companies to eliminate u...
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This drug's street name is STP. During the hippie drug culture of the VIETNAM war period, its name referred to "serenity, tranquility, and peace." This was also a taunt and a spoof, since the initials were the same as ...
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OFFICIAL NAMES: 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine (2C-B) STREET NAMES: Nexus, bromo, afterburner bromo, utopia, Venus, spectrum, BDMPEA, toonies, MFT, erox, cloud nine zenith DRUG CLASSIFICATIONS: Schedule I, hallucinogen 2C-B is a rela...
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As early as 1894 attempts were made to enhance cinema with 3-D special effects. It was not until the early 1900s, however, after Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) and W. E. Waddell developed the anaglyphic process that 3-D cinema became a realit...
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HEALTHY, HAPPY, HOLY ORGANIZATION (3HO). In 1969, Harbhajan Singh Puri (b. August 26, 1929), now known as Yogi Bhajan, came to California. A Sikh from India, he started teaching Kuṇḍalinī Yoga and founded the Healthy, ...
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