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15 – October 28, 1962 The Director of the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) Arthur C. Lundahl squinted through a magnifying glass over a lighted table covered with photographs. The photographs were of landscapes taken from…

Caesar was born in Rome. In the years to follow, Julius Caesar would become one of the greatest rulers of the Roman Empire. Not only was he responsible for shaping the Roman Empire, he did much to shape the future of the Western world. Unfortunately…

century to discover the roots and intertwining movements that led to what we call today the Modern Movement. The great breakthrough period a stretch of almost twenty years, that separates modern typography from earlier typographics, started…

May 4, 1970, we must determine whether or not the National Guard faced a serious danger from the student crowd. Kent State suffered a big tragedy in May 4th, 1970. Four students were killed and 9 were injured cause of a confrontation between the National…

both the United States and the Soviet Union saw the danger of the Cold War escalating into a shooting war. Both countries had and continued to stockpile weapons, specifically nuclear bombs. The two countries nuclear capabilities combined were reaching…

land of China hundreds of thousands of Chinese in seek of opportunity began immigrating to the United States. Many motivated by the discovery of gold in California others came to the United States to seek better economic opportunity. Yet there were…

of different ethnic origin. In the Iron Age, their different cultures had started to resemble each other, largely by processes of trade and exchange. The Greeks and Romans called all these people Celts or Gauls. In the fourth century, Gallic warriors…

was the name for the scandal during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. The scandal involved the secret leasing of naval oil reserve lands to private companies. A committee of the U.S. Senate first revealed it to the people in 1924 after its discovery…

revolution is more than a just an opinion. The revolution was primarily directed at certain goals, not like that of the French or American Revolution, but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically…

segregation during the Civil Rights Movement to help provide blacks with equal rights. Parks is an African-American civil rights activist who is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Parks triggered the…