America has many a strange holidays including national hammock day and national ice cream day but is Columbus day actually qualified to be a national holiday? There are people on every side of this controversy with some saying Columbus day is as important to American Culture as the bald eagle, others stating it’s derogatory to cultures and facts, and still more who stand in the middle ground. Columbus day should be changed to a more appropriate and accurate holiday. Changing the holiday is the best
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which was discovered in a radiation-sterilized can of corn beef in 1956 (Radman & Krisko, 2013) (Meet Conan the Bacterium, 1999). The name Deinococcus radiodurans means “strange berry that withstands radiation”, and that name derives from the bacteria’s red, spherical shape (DeWeerdt, 2002). Since the discovery of this strange berry in the fifties, there have been various studies conducted trying to figure the various extreme conditions which the extremophile can survive in, their energy sources
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International has a passion for art but, like Equality, did not go to the Home of the Artists but also became a Street Sweeper. Together, they follow their curiosity. By way of chance, they stumble across a cave in which they can hide their discoveries from those who don’t understand. Their ideas are suppressed in society and therefore need a place to let them go. As street sweepers, they both had the duty of cleaning the Home of the Scholars. Consequently, they removed the “glass vials, the
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a child Tesla would sometimes experience visions of scenes, people, and things so realistic that he was unsure of ... Nikola Tesla is the world's greatest inventor, not only at present but in all history...His basic as well as revolutionary discoveries, for sheer audacity, have no equal in the annals of the intellectual world." (Hugo Gernsback, science editor and publisher.) Father of Alternating Current and AC induction motors, Nikola Tesla is known best for the high voltage generator that
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Tyler Gathercoal Written Assignment 2112 November 11, 2011 This seven movement “suite” as many people would describe it, is almost 21 minutes in duration. The song, 2112 (pronounced, twenty-one twelve), was written by the band, Rush. Rush is composed of three members; Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart. The band originated in Canada in the year 1974. They quickly moved to the United States where they became one of the most popular bands in their era. Alex plays the guitar, Geddy plays
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place like the bottom of a well for example.” If there was any line that could boil down the essence of the book, then this was it. “The wind up bird Chronicle” that is translated by Jay Rubin , a professor of Japanese literature in Harvard, is a strange and surreal book that dances in genres like magical realism, deals with elements of gore- the macabre and the grotesque and bubbles with questions of philosophy and embraces wholly the realm of well, sheer unbelievable events. It starts out simply
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Etruscan impact on Europe In her paper Bonfante explores the Etruscan influence that expanded “beyond the frontiers of Etruria proper, in Italy and beyond the Alps.” She explores materials such as amber; which the Etruscans imported and then was later buried in the graves of aristocratic chiefs, to wooden furniture. She also explores the newly revealed stone statues that resemble Etruscan models which were based on the kouros statues from ancient Greece. The ‘situla art’ of the Alpine regions
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would find myself drifting up the stairs, down the hallway, past the door to my room and the wall lined with pictures, through my parents' bedroom door and the entryway to the bathroom, taking a right, and sitting. My mother's closet, although a strange place to wander, would bring me comfort. Hiding among the clothes was like a shield against the outside world. There I could try on stilettos and pretend I was an important business woman like my mother. It was only until one day when I found something
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take action and to be human. That still sounds a little distant, doesn’t it? It’s not clear at all what any of this has to do with life as we experience it today. Consider this suggestion; that learning about these people with the strange names who lived in strange places so long ago, will open your eyes to the world around you in ways you never imagined. It will prompt you to think in new ways and to see connections between things you never knew were connected. If a genius is someone who sees
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While a journey might mean different thing to different people, it means an exploration and discovery for me. It has meant joy and happiness that result from exploration. It is a discovery. It is the discovery of a beautiful and blissful world where the soul remains blissfully forgetful of the real world that I am in. It remains so till suddenly and against my wishes I am brought back. The mind runs to this beautiful world. It wants to go back again and again there …till accidentally and suddenly
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