... Maya Lin¹s design formed into the most unique memorial structure of its kind, which honors all who served in the Vietnam War (Colliers 23: 137). The official name given to the monument was the Vietnam Veterans memorial. In this name alone it is clear that it was not erected for the sole purpose of honoring only those who were lost in the conflict. The term KIA was the abbreviation used for those people who were killed in action, and these people represent 47,000 of the 58,000 names on the wall. The other 11,000 were soldiers who died from crashes, snake bites, illnesses, and other non-combat related deaths (Ols ...

... by Mrs. O'leary's cow kicking over a lantern. Others have different theories, but one thing is for sure,on the Sunday evening of October 8, 1871 a blaze started in Mrs. O' leary's barn. Daniel sullivan sat on the wooden sidewalk when he saw a flame in Mrs. O'leary's barn. He managed to save a half grown calf. By now everyone in the neighborhood woke up, including the sleeping O'learys. The "America" hose cart was the first to reach the scene. They were soon joined by the "Little Giant" engine company. A neighbor ran to a drug store to turn on an alarm but the alarm failed to work. The court house watchman h ...

... all-black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, trained by its white commander, Col. Robert G. Shaw, suffered heavy casualties in a heroic, though unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Wagner at Charleston (S.C.) harbor in July 1863. In all, about 209,000 ex-slaves and free blacks served in the Union Army, and more than 68,000 of them died in battle or from wounds or disease. After the Civil War, Congress authorized two cavalry regiments and four infantry regiments of black troops, who were led by white officers. The 9th and 10th cavalry regiments were formed in 1866 and were used to control "hostile" Indian tribes in ...

... in Europe, President Roosevelt hurriedly called his cabinet and military advisors together. There it was agreed that the United states stay neutral in these affairs. One of the reasons given was that unless America was directly threatened they had no reason to be involved. This reason was a valid one because it was the American policy to stay neutral in any affairs not having to with them unless American soil was threatened directly. Thus the provisional neutrality act passed the senate by seventy-nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosevelt signed it into law. In 1936 the law was renewed, and in 1937 a “ ...

... the cost estimate (excluding RAID level 4 support) will be implemented on the Windows NT operating system running on a 500MHz dual-processor Pentium® III Xeon system with 512MB of memory. The configuration will consist of two Ethernet interfaces connected to an Ethernet switch on a T3 backbone, providing a peak network bandwidth of 30 Mbits/sec. Storage will consist of a set of four 18GB ULTRAWIDE SCSI-2 drives configured as a striped logical volume using standard Widows NT system tools. To further increase transfer speed, a 64MB hardware disk cache will also be used in the system. Arrays of optical drives will als ...

... in general for their success in the music industry. Furthermore, the cooperation between the beat makers and the rap star producers has allowed big record companies to benefit from this booming section of the recording industry. Support by those you oppose. This can be seen as the basic summary of white consumption of rap and hip-hop, which really began to skyrocket with the group Public Enemy. An explanation for this great Caucasian support of early rap is rebellion. The buying of rap by white people, specifically teenagers, was and is seen as rebelling against parental figures and mainstream society (rap is be ...

... a tax stamp. Refusal to use the stamps on business papers became common, and the courts would not enforce their use on legal documents. T he British the act was repealed by the British Parliament on March 4, 1766, after the members of the House of Commons heard the arguments of Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania’s representative in London. The conflict between the colonists and British government over the Stamp Act is often considered one of the chief immediate causes of the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a famous event that took place on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was when a group of Bost ...

... the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance. The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Sunday morning the governor came to Kent and in t ...

... effort. Despite the fact that England war , in 1763, the country was bankrupt. I an effort to raise money England decided to tax the colonists. These taxes included The sugar Act, which taxed all news papers and legal documents. The Stamp Act which was the first internal tax on the colonies. The Towsend acts which was an import tax and led to a boycott by the colonists. The Tea act which gave the East Indian Tea company a monopoly on tea. And The coercive Acts, which led the upper legislative chamber of govtermant to be appointed rather than elected. These laws passed by England made the colonists furious bec ...

... of rubble, these were mixed with water, which caused the mixture to harden into a solid mass. Initially concrete was used mainly for poured foundations, but with advances it make indispensable to all types of structures and allowed more freedom and space for artistic experiment and expression. The remains of the Sanctuary of Fortuna are an example of Republican Roman architecture. The sanctuary is dedicated to the goddess of fate and chance, was begun about 100 BCE. Its design and size reflect the influence of the Greek Hellenistic architecture, in the use of the long colonnade and the colossal scale of the grea ...