Lieutenant Philip B. Frothingham Memorial: The Lieutenant Philip B. Frothingham Memorial is located in the Western Promenade of Portland, Maine. Like many WWI monuments throughout Maine, the memorial is composed of a granite boulder and bronze plaque. Erected in 1921, and sponsored by the Frothingham Post of the Veterans of Foreign War (also a memorial to Frothingham), the monument was created in memorialization to the memory of Lieutenant Philip B. Frothingham. Born in Portland, Maine, August
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At the turn of the 20th century, Jazz music began to take shape. Intrigued, Louis Armstrong took interest to the new genre and wanted to be a part of the movement. He received opportunity and encouragement by his peers to begin playing music. Loyal to his instrument, Armstrong was depicted as independent when it came to his music, as he had turned down opportunities and people to prioritize his music. Yet, the people that had the greatest impact on his life played a major role in inspiring him to
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Tim Hamner gets to a party thrown by the Sutters and announces that a comet he discovered has been authenticated and named the Hamner-Brown. The "Brown" is a young amateur astronomer who reported his own sighting around the same time as Hamner. Tim explains that he found the comet first but waited to make sure that it really was an undiscovered comet before reporting it. The next few months, people started to worry that the comet would hit the Earth and some people prepared for an end-of-the-world
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For this assignment I chose to learn more about the Apollo Missions. I have always been very interested in this subject. It blows my mind that someone was smart enough to figure out how to get man on the moon and bring them home safely. The whole point of the Apollo Missions were to safely land man on the moon and bring them home. There were many tests before they actually landed Apollo 11 on the moon. Apollo 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the modules. Apollo 8 and 10 tested large
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11 mission, that demonstrate how it relates to the rhetoric concepts of ethos, pathos and logos. As well as in how it is effectively used to prove throughout these pieces of texts the subject and writing to the rhetoric concepts mentioned. Neil Armstrong, the man to take the first walks on moon’s surface, along with another astronaut. Having millions of people watching such an historic event, the Times of London article informed many of them. Allowing not only the journalist to inform, but as well
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Apollo 13 Social student fair Right in the beginning of space programs to the Moon, Apollo 13 was the third American Apollo space program that had intended to land on the moon. Although it was the seventh manned mission. Real goal of that mission was to examine a region of the moon, a region that is difficult to get to. The astronauts survived the flight, but it was close. As in the bible says ( Psalm 8:3-4 ESV / When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which
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breaking events that ultimately had a great impact on our history. They were the first of their time and in the majorify of situations, not in a positive way. To begin on a postive note, we begin with the first man to walk on the moon. Mr. Neal Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. Millions of people were positioned in front of their televisions at home eagerly watching as Mr. Armsrong bounced along the moon carrying an American Flag before he planted it firmly in the
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Louis Armstrong was the one of the most important influential person in jazz history. He was a singer, composer and trumpeter. He is renowned by most people for his voice and his trumpet playing on the stage. By the time Louis Armstrong was renowned, America was very racially divided. But Louis Armstrong’s talent was really accepted into white society, his voice and performance was largely acknowledged by the most people in American back then. Even my father also says he was the one of the most famous
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Neil Armstrong said,” One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Not only was Neil Armstrong‘s mission was successful but most of the missions NASA sent out helped us learn more about our solar system. NASA has sent out many mission throughout the years. Many of the missions that NASA sent out have achieved their goals but also some missions have failed. Apollo 11, Hubble Telescope, and Spirit and Opportunity were sent into outer space, had spinoffs, and also helped us gain information
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From the first telescope to the first steps on the moon, NASA has so much to be proud of. It all started in early 1958, when NASA launched the first American craft to orbit moon. After they had their first accomplishment, they started to launch crafts that were aimed at the moon. In December 1958, NASA started working on a project that would send men to space known as Project Mercury. In the beginning of Project Mercury, NASA launched 13 spacecrafts into space. 6 failed due to trouble in the rockets
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