“Little boy” and “Fat man”. These were the names of the two devastating atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One‚ a gun-assembly fission bomb where “a mass of Uranium-235 is fired down a gun barrel toward another mass of Uranium-235”. The other‚ an Implosion fission bomb where “a sphere of Plutonium-239 is surrounded by high explosives that compress the plutonium”. Both bombs had a TNT equivalent of over 15‚000 tons‚ and the sheer force of both explosions was equal to the load of nearly
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Quit India Movement From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Quit india movement) Jump to: navigation‚ search The Quit India Movement (Hindi: ???? ????? ??????? Bharat Chodo Andolan)‚ or the August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi’s call for immediate independence. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "an orderly British
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1. Adolf Hitler’s rise to power first began at the start of the 1920s‚ when he played a significant role in the advancement of the Nazi Party. Eventually‚ in July of 1921‚ Hitler became president of the party‚ and used his eloquence to present his views to others‚ expanding his followers. Although his persuasion ostensibly was important to him attaining power‚ it perhaps was not the only factor to his success. Later‚ he believed that he and his party were capable of leading an uprising against
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World History Benchmark 3 and SOL Exam Study Guide Unit 1: World in 1500 Textbook: Pages 1-11‚ Chap. 4‚ Sec 1-2‚ Chap. 6‚ Sec. 1-3  WHII.2a: Location of some of the major states and empires in the Eastern Hemisphere England France Spain Russia Ottoman Empire - Turks Persia – modern day Iran China Mughal India Songhai Empire – northwest Africa Location of major states and empires in the Western Hemisphere Incan Empire – western South America. Conquered by Spanish conquistador
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Abstract An individual is typically referred by numerous name aliases on the web. Accurate identification of aliases of a given person name is useful in various web related tasks such as information retrieval‚ sentiment analysis‚ personal name disambiguation‚ and relation extraction. We propose a method to extract aliases of a given personal name from the web. Given a personal name‚ the proposed method first extracts a set of candidate aliases. Second‚ we rank the extracted candidates
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World War II killed more people‚ destroyed more property‚ disrupted more lives‚ and probably had more far-reaching consequences than any other war in history. The war‚ which ended in 1945‚ eventually involved 61 countries‚ claimed 50 million lives‚ and completely changed the geopolitical landscape. The causes of World War II can be easily traced back to many of the unsolved issues from the end of World War I and the treaties that ended it also created new political and economic problems. Forceful
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The Japanese Occupation in the Philippines December 7‚ 1941 7:55 am - The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 8‚ 1941 6:30 am - Davao City was bombed (First area in the Philippines to be bombarded) Next Tuguegarao‚ Baguio‚ Iba‚ Tarlac and Clark Field December 9‚ 1941 Bombing of Manila December 10‚ 1941 First Invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese Aparri‚ Vigan‚ Legaspi‚ Davao‚ Lingayen‚ Atimonan and Mauban Under the command of Lt. Masaharu Homma Japan bombed Cavite‚ Nichols Field and
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The Constitution of the Philippines (Filipino: Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas) is the supreme law of thePhilippines. The Constitution currently in effect was enacted in 1987‚ during the administration ofPresident Corazon Aquino‚ and is popularly known as the "1987 Constitution".[1] Philippine constitutional law experts recognize three other previous constitutions as having effectively governed the country — the 1935 Commonwealth Constitution‚ the 1973 Constitution‚ and the 1986 Freedom Constitution
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D-Day-June 6‚ 1944 - Led by Eisenhower‚ over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II. Winston Churchill - Prime minister of Great Britain during World War II. Stalingrad - Site of critical World War II Soviet victory that reversed Germany’s advance to the East. In late 1942‚ Russian forces surrounded the Germans‚ and on Feb. 2‚ 1943‚ the German Sixth Army surrendered. First
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In the 1870‘s‚ Japanese baseball began‚ but at that time‚ baseball players played wearing kimonos and bare feet. Nowadays‚ most American baseball enthusiasts know Japanese top level players‚ such as Daisuke Matsuzaka‚ Hideki Matsui‚ and Ichiro Suzuki because they have many accomplishments in the highest level baseball league MLB [Major League Baseball]. Many Japanese professional baseball players are trying to move to America‚ as a result by 2009 16 Japanese players belonged to MLB teams (48 players
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