New Jersey Palisades. This was where Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio built Alpine Tower, also known as “Armstrong Tower” in 1937. As the discoverer of frequency modulation “FM” in 1933, Armstrong spent many years experimenting on this discovery while working for RCA. Armstrong went through several legal battles throughout his thirteen years of FM discovery and research (and following his death). On April 10, 1938 Armstrong broadcasted for the first time on FM radio, from his experimental
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[pic] Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential African Americans in history. Raised the son of a slave mother, Washington was self- motivated and committed to his own education from a young age. The tumultuous time in America’s history during which he lived afforded him new freedoms that came from Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the eventual success of the North in the Civil War.[1] He took the first opportunity to attend a formal school, Hampton Institute
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Sitting Bull was a man whose life story has changed over the years. No matter what the story read, he was a leader and protector of his people. With his power and reputations, it eventually got him killed. Comparing 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica and the 1998 Encyclopedia of World Biography on the articles of Sitting Bull, it is acknowledged that his birth place, his title, his punishment, and death all differentiate; Mostly because they each represent two very different time periods in American life
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The Battle of the Little Big Horn began on June 25, 1876 near the Little Big Horn River in eastern Montana. The battle took place between the U.S. Cavalry and northern tribe Indians. General George Crook and his column were resting along the rosebud, when randomly a mass force of Lakota warriors came flying out of the mountains. Crook and his men withstood the stampede and prevented the Wyoming colony from being overrun. Sitting Bull was an Indian leader of the Lakota tribe in the 19th century. He
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doubt brought a huge amount of financial success to the writers and composers of the composition. According to The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), there are three original writers of this composition, being Billy Joe Armstrong (singer), Mike Pritchard (bassist) and an outside collaborator, Frank E. Wright. The publishers listed are Green Haze Music and W B Music Corp. In addition, according to the U.S. Copyright Office, the claimant of the copyright to the entire collection
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Abstract Racism and discrimination plagued this nation for many generations. It halted the progression of one race and exceled the advancement of another. These advancements were for Caucasian leaders whom thrived such as Patton, Custer, and York. The accomplishments of these men should not succumb to diminishment because they in fact earned what they received regardless of skin color. However, they did not face as many hindrances as African-American leaders such as Powell, Flipper, and McKinney
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Out of dust paragraph In section five, the relationship between Billie Jo and her father can be described as joyless, depressive, and lifeless. Billie’s father spends most of the time digging a hole, the hole that Ma once wanted. He might be regretting that he didn’t listen to Ma. His time is killed by digging instead of doing something together with Billie. He digs and digs while Billie studies and sleeps. They don’t have any happiness between them, which is very sad. Once they get together
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Aubrey Waddle 1/27/15 United States History Since 1877 HIST-1302 4020 1 The Battle of Little Big Horn The eye witness accounts in America Firsthand show that the battle was indeed a massacre. Not one in the sense that there was an excess of mutilations and carnage, but that the U.S. Army participating in the battle were destroyed with little effort from the Indian forces. One Bull makes this clear in his account when he says, “I went with Sitting Bull and volunteered to go help kill these
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Chief Sitting Bull. The Great Sioux wars in the year of the 1870s would lead to the Battle of Little BigHorn. Sitting bull and his tribe and confederation of tribes would go into battle with federal troops. The federal troops were lead under George Armstrong Custer. After the several years of war in Canada,Sitting Bull and his tribe finally surrendered to the U.S forces In Sitting Bull’s early life he was the son of the esteemed Sioux warrior named Returns- Again. Sitting Bull
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films like Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and The Sea Hawk (1940) and for playing American Heroes such as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in They Died with Their Boots On (1942). He was also known for his playboy lifestyle which ruined his career. The second name “Wynstan” was my father’s discretion. He read Barbara Cartland’s “No Time For Love,” where Wynstan played
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