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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Oklahoma City Bombing
Oklahoma City bombing. (2012). The History Channel website. Retrieved 5:13, January 30, 2012, from http://www.history.com/topics/oklahoma-city-bombing. Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government militant, set off a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The blast collapsed one side of the nine-story building and cost 168 people their lives. Until [...]
Little Ice Age Origin
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News Plants trapped under Iceland’s icecaps store a record of ancient temperatures The Little Ice Age was caused by the cooling effect of massive volcanic eruptions, and sustained by changes in Arctic ice cover, scientists conclude. An international research team studied ancient plants from Iceland and Canada, and [...]
A 1929 Cartoon
A 1929 Cartoon Explains How ‘Talkies’ Work By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/01/finding-his-voice-1929/251929/ Jan 24 2012, 4:13 PM ET Once upon a time, synchronized sound in movies was still new and exciting. Finding His Voice, a cartoon starring two rolls of film named Talkie and Mutie, illustrates that process. In the course of Mutie’s quest to get [...]
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Tagged Early Day Cartoons, History of animation, History of cartoons, Talkies
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Pearl Harbor Facts and Issues
The following article is in response to a request by a reader for facts and issues regarding Pearl Harbor. How America Changed After Pearl Harbor The December of 1941 radically altered America and its global role By MICHAEL MORELLA January 6, 2012 On Dec. 7, 1941, radios buzzed with the news that several hundred Japanese planes [...]