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President Nixon resigned from office, the infamous legacy left by Richard Nixon and his administration will never be forgotten, leaving the American people with a distrust among American Politicians and disrespect for the American Presidency.…

the public of the 1990s are going through. It was called Watergate and it divided the American public. In my opinion President Nixon had no prior knowledge of the scandal and tried to cover up any wrongdoings. Mistakes were made, words were said,…

the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president, Richard M. Nixon, after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. “The Watergate Affair” refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in…

political scandal in United States history. It included various illegal activities constructed to help President Richard Nixon win reelection in the 1972 presidential elections. Watergate included burglary, wire tapping, violations of campaign financin…

a varied cast of characters. Hockey teams are composed of grinders, blue liners, solid goal scorers, netminders, and superstars. They each have their own role to play in the winter drama, but no one played their role so well as Number 99, Wayne Gretzky. …

on about how humans evolved. Is everyone related to one ancestral “Eve”? Or did Homo sapiens radiate out of Africa and develop in different quadrants of the world? The latter has much more substantial evidence consisting of actual bones and fossils,…

March 1, 1781, to June 21, 1788 was the first constitution established in the New World. The articles were drafted by the British colonists in order to help unify the 13 colonies under a common government. This document expressed the form of government…

1865 The Civil War (1861-1865) produced more casualties than any other war in American history. Union deaths amounted to 360,000 while Confederate losses totaled 258,000. Part of the reason both sides lost so many men is because of the weapons and…

One particular period in which weapons were of great significance, was an age in European history spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, known as the Elizabethan Era. In this era, many new weapons were created, old ones revived and modified,…

a - knob f - muzzle face k - chamber b - neck g - muzzle l - bore c - vent h - rimbase d - trunnion i - cascable e - muzzle swell j - breech Basic Weapons The system of ordnance adopted by the U.S. Army in the 1840's was the…