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ice, this remarkable story captures to voyage that was one of man's greatest feat of human survival. In August 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton, captain of the sailing ship Endurance, with 27 men on board, left England heading for the Antarctic. The aim…

2. network- system of connected railroad lines 3. consolidate- combine 4. rebate- discount 5. pool- system in which several railroad companies agreed to divide up the buisness in an area Lesson 2 1. Bessemer process- method developed in the…

life. A lot of theories were formed and proven wrong, but they laid a base. In the same way, many inventions proved to be very significant. Cuneiform is the first ever form of writing in history and its significance is that from this writing…

Sturm Abteilung (Storm Section). The SA (also known as stormtroopers or brownshirts) were instructed to disrupt the meetings of political opponents and to protect Hitler from revenge attacks. Captain Ernst Roehm of the Bavarian Army played an important…

By splitting a uranium atom in half, both halves of the atom would have a positive charge and would repel each other with powerful force. The German government took little notice of the finding at first. But others felt the implications were immediate…

no people on the earth. For four days the first man lay coiled up in the pod of a beach pea. On the fifth, he burst forth, falling to the ground, and stood up, a full-frown man. Feeling unpleasant, he stooped and drank from a pool of water, then felt…

many outstanding features and writers which made for a wonderful cache of literary works by African American writers. There was an unprecidented variety and scope of publications by African Americans which brought about a new sense of purpose, confidence…

about 1978 The year 1978 posed an eventful and intriguing year. From the stressful and exerting affairs of the world to the rising popularity in sports and entertainment. Many factors of the year 1978 contributed greatly to the changing times…

more than 100 years ago a bushranger called Ned Kelly fought his final battle. He was an outlaw who rode a horse, put on a suit of armour and fought police. Today, Ned Kelly is an Australia legend. Ned, the eldest of eight children, was born to…

a traditional village in Africa called Ibo. Achebe is trying to tell the outside world about the little village and to remind the people of its own traditional values. In those days, many Africans were just willing to accept that there culture…