Hunt for Red October is a Techno-thriller written by Tom Clancey. ... In Hunt for Red October, we find that the US and British intelligence services become aware, through smuggled out photographs, of a new submarine that the USSR, former Soviet Union, Russia) is developing and is about to launch. ... The Red October is picked up by a very wise US killer attack class small and fast submarine and the cavitations in the water are soon identified as the signature or fingerprint of the Red October when it is using the new water jet propulsion system. ... Jack Ryan is placed inside of the US hunt...

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The Red October was a Russian missile submarine that was under the command of Captain Ramius. ... The Red October was badly damaged but was able to make it back to the U.S. navel base and Captain Ramus defected. ...

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Objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. ... In October 1918, Congress passed the Alien Act, which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to deport any alien who, at any time after entering the United States, is found to have been at the time of entry, or to have become thereafter a member of any anarchist organization. ... Another reason for the Red Scare was the strike held by mine workers. ... The Red Scare was a product of World War I and anti-liberalism. ... What is known as the Red Scare of 1919-1921 set precedent to the hunts of the McCarthy era, where he accused two...

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His novels The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of The Kremlin provide insights which will capture the imagination of many readers. ... Through use of historical facts such as defection in The Hunt for Red October (THRO), Clancy is able to advance his plot. ... In June 1987 a German teenager landed in the Red Square in Soviet Union. ... When Ramius received a message from one of the American submarines and mentions his submarine's name, Red October, he was astonished because Americans were not supposed to know about his wish to defect. ... Tom Clancy makes numerous references to ...

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Where The Red Fern Grows The book I read for my book report was, Where The Red Fern Grows, by Wison Rawls. It was published in October 1996 and consists of 212 pages. ... This setting is very important because it is where they hunt and also why Billy is a country type of boy. ... When he gets there he finds that a Red Fern has grown imbetween the two dog's graves. It is an old indian saying that only a angel can plant a Red Fern. ...

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An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare, which began in 1919 and ended in 1921. ... What caused the Red Scare? At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed Forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... Nevertheless, the conscientious objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. ... From the very beginning of the Red Scare, the Wobblies were the subject of attack by the government, because they were a symbo...

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My Favorite Novel Series Tom Clancy is one of my favorite authors, and he has written the Jack Ryan series of novels. Many of Clancy's books have been made into movies. The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and recently released The Sum of All Fears have all been exc...

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Louis, the first child of Louis Riel Pere and Julie Lagimodiere, was born October 22, 1844 in St. ... Louis spent his childhood on the east bank of the Red River, not far from St. ... In October, 1869 William McDougall was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Rupert's Land. ... Since 1879, he had followed the buffalo hunt and worked as an agent, trader and woodcutter near Carroll, in Montana Territory. ... He had hoped to instruct the Métis but found that they made little progress, coming to class only sporadically and preferring to follow the hunt. ...

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Earlier "red hunts" didn't go beyond an attempt at curtailing the activities of radical political activists. ... He started his "red hunt" with government workers, and then he went on to artists, entertainers and unionists, then the US Army. ... By accusing people of being "Red" McCarthy violated several amendments that gave freedoms to American people. ... In October 1953, McCarthy began investigating Communist infiltration into the military and accused the Army of selling top secret information to Russian Communists. ...

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Louis Riel was born in Winnipeg on October 22, 1844. ... He lived in the Red River settlement where there was much to rebel against due to the governments totally undemocratic ways. ... The Hudson Bay Company tried to encourage the Métis to take up farming in the south western part of Manitoba, but many of the Métis found this hard to accept, as it did not have the same excitement the hunt had. ...

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Witch hunts are constantly being created and reconstructed, but a few of the more popular and publicized of these cases are the Red Scare, The Child Molestation cases, and the Salem Witch Trials. The Red Scare involved a United States Senator named Joseph McCarthy. ... Quite a few witch hunts have developed from the September eleventh tragedy. ... One such Witch hunt that has come out of this devastating event was the Anthrax Letter Scare. ... In early October, Letters laced in Anthrax began to be delivered to various media and congressional offices around the nation. ...

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Tituba spoke of red rats, talking cats, and a tall man dressed in black. ... By October of 1692 there was a cloud of tragedy lingering over Massachusetts", Salem Village. ... As September turned to October more and more voices of reason and dissent were heard above the witch frenzy. ... On October twenty ninth the Governor formally dismissed the Court of Oyer and Terminer (Kallen, 80). After Sir William Phipps wrote his letter to London in October and an end was brought to the hysteria, everything really did calm down. ...

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Tituba spoke of red rats, talking cats, and a tall man dressed in black. ... By October of 1692 there was a cloud of tragedy lingering over Massachusetts", Salem Village. ... As September turned to October more and more voices of reason and dissent were heard above the witch frenzy. ... On October twenty ninth the Governor formally dismissed the Court of Oyer and Terminer (Kallen, 80). After Sir William Phipps wrote his letter to London in October and an end was brought to the hysteria, everything really did calm down. ...

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Many customs and traditions fell by the wayside in order to assimilate in the general society, but certain red lines were not crossed. ... They became engaged soon after, but they would only marry in October 1945, after he returned from three years' service in Europe. ... This was the height of the Cold War and the United States was undergoing a witch hunt that looked for Communists in entertainment, government, the Army, education, et al. ... My father's first memory of a political nature was the Cuban Missile Crises in October 1962, although he did not realize at the time how close...

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On an October afternoon in 1954 when Cassius was 12 he left his 60 dollar red Schwinn outside the Columbia Auditorium to visit a bazaar. ... He went in demanding a statewide bike hunt and threatening to beat the hell out of whoever had stolen it. ...

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Clarence Hemingway who was a doctor, would explore, camp, fish, and hunt. ... "He signed up for the Red Cross when he heard that they were taking volunteers." ... She died on October 21, 1951 in Hollywood California. ...

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When a community looks only for evidence of guilt and ignores or suppresses all contradictory evidence, the results are a witch-hunt. And a witch-hunt was developing in Salem as the community felt itself so beset by evil that it was no longer capable of perceiving the good. ... During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rats and a man n black. ...

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When a community looks only for evidence of guilt and ignores or suppresses all contradictory evidence, the results are a witch-hunt. And a witch-hunt was developing in Salem as the community felt itself so beset by evil that it was no longer capable of perceiving the good. ... During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rats and a man n black. ...

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The Count dreamed of an enormous canal that would go from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, an idea that was laughed at by most. ... The architect named for this design was Richard Morris Hunt, who was a very popular person with the rich upperclass New York citizens. ... The final unveiling day was October 28, 1886. ...

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Cummings One of America's noted modern poets, Edward Estlin Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Since this poem has no rote meaning, it is as easy to interpret it as a leisurely deer hunt as it is to view it as the preface to the apocalypse. ... Cummings' poetry was "designed to liberate the emotions and the imaginations of his readers by alternately (or simultaneously) shocking and exalting them-. (1376) All in Green is one poem that exalts the reader by taking them through watching "four red roebuck at a white water- in a "gold valley- with t...

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Jones on the other hand spent his time sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon. ... Pilkington owned the Farm; he was an easygoing gentleman, fished and hunted depending on the season. ... Early October Mr. ...

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Parasitic bees don't make nests or hunt, but they use nests and food of other species of bees to provide for their parasitic young. ... Bees see all colors humans do except red, and they see ultraviolet, which humans cannot. Red flowers often reflect ultraviolet. ... Since 1957 they have been moving steadily northward, and the first swarm entered the United States in October 1990. (7-13) Gould states that bumblebees sting when their nest is disturbed, but they are not easily aroused when they are gathering nectar. ...

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Grizzly bears in British Columbia represent many things to different people. To a large percentage of the population, they represent all that is still wild about our province, a link to the past before humans came and logged much of the forests, put roads over the mountains, and dammed the rivers. T...

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I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I cant use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. ... A postcard received at the Central News Agency on October 1st, making direct reference to both the murders and the "Dear Boss" letter, is believed to have been written by the same hand. ... A postcard was sent on October 1, with a stamp from London E., it gives reference to a double event, and that he did not have time to get the ears for the police. ...

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