One of the biggest impacts he had was changing the way the British warships were powered. He ordered for all the ships to be built with oil powered engines instead of coal powered engines, and he was one of the first military men to implement military aircraft. ... With the rise to power in Germany of Adolf Hitler in 1933, it wasn't yet clear that Hitler was going to be a great threat not only to Britain, but potentially all of Europe, as well as the entire world. ... Churchill had kept a close relationship with United States of America President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before Hitler t...

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He experimented with gasoline-powered vehicles and horse-less carriages for several years. ... Ford had a stroke in 1938 but returned to run the company and resume the presidency after his son, Edsel Ford, died in 1943 (World Book Encyclopedia: Henry Ford). ... By this time Ford had already experienced two strokes and two years later handed over the presidency to his grandson, Henry Ford II. ...

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On December 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. in Kitty Hawk North Carolina, the Wright brothers made the first heavier-than-air, machine powered flight which lasted 12 seconds and spanned 120 feet although they are credited for successfully having the first flight, there is one thing that separates their flying from today's flight, the Wright plane was catapulted straight to give it speed. ... The four stroke piston engine is the type of engine normally found in a car but types of piston engines also power boats and planes. The four "strokes" are INDUCTION, COMPRESSION, COMBUSTION, EXHAUST (or suck...

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This gave Lodge an enormous amount of power because in treaties, the President would negotiate but the Senate must approve.? ... However, in between speeches the President received a stroke from the stress he had endured, which put him close to death. ...

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1. The Development of Sport 1788 -1839 the first settlers arrived in Australia. It was a new beginning for them with some of them being convicts. Although in the early days the tough and brutal lifestyle meant survival of the fittest, the British heritage influenced and determined the types of pa...

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