In New York City 1982 half a million people gathered for what was the probably the biggest peace demonstration ever held. ... The uranium bomb destroyed 60% of the city and killed 140 000 people. ... Nagasaki 9th August 1945 saw the first plutonium bomb detonated above a city. It destroyed half the city and killed thousands of people in the blast. ... CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) have made many protests all over the world and as I have mentioned above the biggest was held in New York City in 1982 where half a million people gathered for what was the biggest peace demonstration e...

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Between 13 and 15 million people were unemployed and 20% of New York City school children were underweight and malnourished (cite source), this made it clear that immediate action needed to take place. ...

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FDR was born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, NY, near New York City. ... He was admitted into the New York Bar in 1907, despite the fact that he never obtained his law degree. He quickly gained recognition for his leadership of upstate New York Democrats in a fight against Tammany Hall's nominee for the U.S. ... That got him a seat on the New York senate in 1910. ... After a lengthy recovery, FDR was persuaded to run for governor of New York. ...

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The three most important places are Germany during world war two; Ilium, New York, before and after the war; and an alien planet called Tralfamadore. Ilium, New York is the fictional town in New York where Billy Pilgrim is born in 1922 and where he lives most of his life. In Chapter 1, Vonnegut tells us that after the war he and his wife lived in Schenectady, New York, which Billy Pilgrim's "Ilium" seems to be based on. ... Germany is another important setting in the book, especially the city of Dresden. ...

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According to his birth certificate, he was born in Forest City, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1930 (Warhol claims this birth certificate is a forgery). ... He graduated from Carnegie Tech with a degree in design in 1949 and shortly thereafter he moved to New York City to try his hand at commercial illustration (Ratcliff 11). Commissions came fairly readily, and within a few years he became a commercial success, one of the leading fashion illustrators in New York and winner of a number of design industry awards. ...

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New York citizens, according to Dr. ... Back in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah building in Oklahoma City people did not refer it as terrorist but rather a "revolt." ... To bring it all the thoughts to a point, there has been terrorism for many years, and many years before 9-11, the Oklahoma City Bombing and even Desert Storm's terroristic view, but why has the media brought it to the average Americans" view so abruptly? ...

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Almost as soon as World War II ended, developers such as William Levitt (whose "Levittown's" in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania would become the most famous symbols of suburban life in the 1950s) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modest, inexpensive tract houses there. ... Bill subsidized low-cost mortgages for returning soldiers, which meant that it was often cheaper to buy one of these suburban houses than it was to rent an apartment in the city. ...

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More than 50,000s of fans were attracted to the city because of successful sport events that kept Bay Area fans on the roll. When San-Francisco Giants went to the baseball playoffs and advanced to the World Series city earned a lot of money on people who came into our city to watch the games. City earned a lot of money for hotels and other services. Also our city earned a lot of money from the football playoffs when 49ers went on to play New-York Giants. ...

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Most of the action in the story occurs in the small town of Ilium, New York, where Billy, was born. ... Germany is another important setting in the book, especially the city of Dresden. ... During his stay, the city is bombed and totally destroyed. ...

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Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin is a global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products, and services for government and commercial customers. Lockheed Martin has many lines of business, dealing mos...

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The Rosenberg Trial America had developed the ultimate doomsday weapon in the history of warfare, a weapon that was so powerful that it could destroy life as we know it on this planet. This was a power that America held in check and deployed only when faced with no other alternatives. The defe...

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As in, with some cities, it is typical to be known more for the people that travel to visit for vacation, rather than their own inhabitants. ... The "people of Maine" are more easily characterized by the cities' own year-round inhabitants rather than its visitors. ... Once the people of the coast are given description, the author goes on to supply the attractions of the coast such as York Beach, Ogunquit's Summer Playhouse and Portsmouth. ... Although the author accounts these growing dangers in the natural beauty of the Maine countryside and coastline, he points out that ...

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Alcoa Inc. (from Aluminum Company of America) is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Russia's Rusal, with corporate headquarters in New York City. Alcoa is a classic example of how monopoly was created and maintained for 50 years. Alcoa was successfu...

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Norman Rockwell: America's Artist Rockwell, the best know artist in American, was born on 1894 in New York City (Norman Rockwell-Biography). He was best known to paint realistic illustrations of people. Many of his works told a story about what was going on in America at that time. Rockwell us...

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One example commonly cited was the failure of the Carter and Clinton administrations failure of assassinating Osama bin-Laden, the leading figure in the terrorist cell al-Qaeda, thus leading to the September 11th attacks on New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania. ...

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"Koreatowns" have developed in places such as Los Angeles, as well as other large cities. ... The states of New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington also have significant Korean communities creating the ever growing trait of diversity in America....

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World War II broke out in September of 1939 when Germany marched into Poland. At the time, no one thought that World War II would bring so many horrors to the world. Nazi death camps, atomic bombs, Pearl Harbor, interment camps and a huge number of causalities were just some of the horrors witnessed...

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On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ...

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On October 5, 1919, a Navy station in New York City inaugurated a nightly broadcast of "various items of interest to the amateur", in order to "maintain the interest of radio amateurs and to train them in receiving code", as reported in Navy to Broadcast News for Benefit of Amateurs, from the December, 1919 Popular Science Monthly. ...

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On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ...

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