One of the biggest antiwar demonstrations took place at Washington D.C. in 1969. 40,000 people gathered at the Arlington Cemetery and marched through the city. 3 and ½ hours later the crowd grew to over 500,000 people who held antiwar demonstrations. ... In the following five years, the two Vietnams received the equivalent of 22 tons of explosives for every square mile of territory. ... Approximately 2,000,000 people visit it each year making it the most visited in Washington D.C. ...

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Some of these jobs included: a reporter for the New York Journal, a reporter for the Washington Herald; he was chief of the overseas news agency bureau; he was assistant chief of mission for the Office of War information; he was a correspondent for overseas News agency in Italy, Austria, Germany, Turkey, and Hungary; he was chief of staff emeritus for the Atlantic beach Navy, he was a member of mission to Korea for United Nations, he was a member of the staff for the Democratic National Committee, and last he was a consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space council, and the department ...

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All together, North and South Korea covers an area of 85,246 square miles, and only fifteen percent of that can be considered plains - these are mostly in the southern coastal regions. ... In 1995, sixty-thousand Korean War veterans gathered in Washington D.C. to watch President Clinton dedicate this memorial that honors - pride, valor, heroic sacrifice on behalf of freedom and democracy - are ideals largely unfamiliar to our generation. ...

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When the annexation occurred, Mexico broke relations and withdrew its minster from Washington. ... Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as having the Wilmot Proviso outlaw slavery other than where it already was, nearly 13,000 Americans lost their lives and the country invested around $100 billion into the war. ...

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Research and development for the Manhattan Project took place in a number of cities, including Oak Ridge Tennessee, Hanford Washington, and Los Alamos New Mexico. ... On August 6, 1945 the first bomb, "Little Boy," was detonated over Hiroshima, destroying 4 square miles of the city. ...

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However, relatively few people have had the opportunity to visit the Pentagon (Richardson, 5C).The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense in Washington, DC. ... According to Fred Holliday, approximately 400,000 square feet of space required complete structural demolition and reconstruction. ... These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and its suburbs over approximately 30 miles of access highways, including express bus lanes and one of the newest subway systems in our country. They ride past 200 acres of lawn to park approximately 8,770 cars in 16 parki...

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In the book The Chinese Navy Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles, it is written by Saunders "According to one source, roughly half, or 1.5 million square kilometers, of the approximately 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory under China's legal jurisdiction is in dispute or already controlled by other regional nations " (Saunders). ...

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Places like the University of Chicago, Oakridge Tennessee, Hanford Washington, and a remote lab in Los Alamos New Mexico all took part. ... The bomb composed of uranium was dropped and a force of more than fifteen thousand tons of TNT, instantly, completely devastated ten square kilometers of the city where three hundred and forty-three thousand people lived. ...

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