The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. The years following the Civil War had seen a steady preparation for this. In 1867, for example, William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ...

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Also, area military radar facilities in the surrounding area were ordered not to report any unusual sightings of high performance aircrafts (Wallace 1997). ... From 1962 until 1968 Area 51 was used to test these high performance All military planes. ...

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His independence also threatened our interests in the Panama Canal. ... The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama because of its outrage over Noriega's abuses of human rights, the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China, noting that $300 million in business for US firms was at stake and that contacts had secretly resumed a few weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre. ...

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Theodore hardly ever went to school because of his sickly nature, and was instructed by his Aunt Annie that lived with the family. ... Left in charge of the Navy for a day while his boss, Secretary of the Navy John Long, was away because of his health, the hawkish Assistant Secretary telegraphed all squadron commanders in the Pacific and put them on high alert against Spain's Pacific fleet--a brazen usurpation of power. ... The US recognized it independence and Panama rapidly agreed to American terms on a Canal Zone lease, and the US Army Corps of Engineers began digging the following yea...

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Theodore hardly ever went to school because of his sickly nature, and was instructed by his Aunt Annie that lived with the family. ... Left in charge of the Navy for a day while his boss, Secretary of the Navy John Long, was away because of his health, the hawkish Assistant Secretary telegraphed all squadron commanders in the Pacific and put them on high alert against Spain's Pacific fleet--a brazen usurpation of power. ... The US recognized it independence and Panama rapidly agreed to American terms on a Canal Zone lease, and the US Army Corps of Engineers began digging the following yea...

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