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Defense.gov News Article: The Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Timeline - 0 views

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  • Iraq invades Kuwait, Aug. 2, 1990. 
  • Operation Desert Shield begins, Aug. 7. 
  • Operation Desert Storm and air war phase begins, 3 a.m., Jan. 17, 1991 (Jan. 16, 7 p.m. Eastern time).
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  • President Bush authorizes the call-up of up to 1 million National Guardsmen and Reservist for up to two years, Jan. 18. 
  • Iraq officially accepts cease-fire terms, April 6. 
  • Cease-fire takes effect, April 11.
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    Gives a timeline of The Operation Dessert Shield/Desert Storm
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    Gives a timeline of The Operation Dessert Shield/Desert Storm 
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  • In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries.
  • The Soviet Union was built on approximately the same territory as the Russian Empire which it succeeded. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the newly-formed government developed a philosophy of socialism with the eventual and gradual transition to Communism.
  • By the time of the 1985 rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, the country was in a situation of severe stagnation, with deep economic and political problems which sorely needed to be addressed and overcome.
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    Fall Of The Soviet Union
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    Fall Of The Soviet Union 
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HubbleSite - The Telescope - Hubble Essentials - 0 views

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  • since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal — to see more, see farther, see deeper.
  • The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey.
  • Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth.
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  • Its position above the atmosphere, which distorts and blocks the light that reaches our planet, gives it a view of the universe that typically far surpasses that of ground-based telescopes.
  • Hubble is one of NASA's most successful and long-lasting science missions.
  • Hubble's discoveries have transformed the way scientists look at the universe.
  • Among its many discoveries, Hubble has revealed the age of the universe to be about 13 to 14 billion years
  • Hubble has shown scientists galaxies in all stages of evolution, including toddler galaxies that were around when the universe was still young, helping them understand how galaxies form. It found protoplanetary disks, clumps of gas and dust around young stars that likely function as birthing grounds for new planets. It discovered that gamma-ray bursts — strange, incredibly powerful explosions of energy — occur in far-distant galaxies when massive stars collapse. And these are only a handful of its many contributions to astronomy.
  • More than 10,000 scientific articles have been published based on Hubble data.
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    Launch Of Hubble Telescope - Everything to know
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Nelson Mandela (president of South Africa) -- Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views

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  • Nelson Mandela, in full Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, byname Madiba   (born July 18, 1918, Umtata, Cape of Good Hope, S.Af.—died December 5, 2013, Johannesburg, S.Af.), black nationalist and first black president of South Africa (1994–99).
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    Nelson Mandela
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World Trade Center bombed - History.com This Day in History - 2/26/1993 - 0 views

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  • At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a crater 60 feet wide and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. The World Trade Center itself suffered more than $500 million in damage. After the attack, authorities evacuated 50,000 people from the buildings, hundreds of whom were suffering from smoke inhalation. The evacuation lasted the whole afternoon.
  • within days several radical Islamic fundamentalists were arrested. In March 1994, Mohammed Salameh, Ahmad Ajaj, Nidal Ayyad, and Mahmoud Abouhalima were convicted by a federal jury for their role in the bombing, and each was sentenced to life in prison.
  • The mastermind of the attack--Ramzi Ahmed Yousef--remained at large until February 1995, when he was arrested in Pakistan. He had previously been in the Philippines, and in a computer he left there were found terrorist plans that included a plot to kill Pope John Paul II and a plan to bomb 15 American airliners in 48 hours.
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    World Trade Center bombing in 1993
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | Office of the United States Trade Represe... - 0 views

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  • On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico (NAFTA) entered into force.
  • All remaining duties and quantitative restrictions were eliminated, as scheduled, on January 1, 2008.
  • NAFTA created the world's largest free trade area, which now links 450 million people producing $17 trillion worth of goods and services.
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  • U.S. goods and services trade with NAFTA totaled $1.6 trillion in 2009
  • The United States has $918 billion in total (two ways) goods trade with NAFTA countries (Canada and Mexico) during 2010.  Goods exports totaled $412 billion; Goods imports totaled $506 billion.  The U.S. goods trade deficit with NAFTA was $95 billion in 2010.
  • The U.S. services trade surplus with NAFTA was $28.3 billion in 2009.
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    Nafta 
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'Titanic' is a great film. It's also the movie that gave rise to hater culture | Inside... - 0 views

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  • James Cameron’s Titanic is one of the most successful movies of all time, and I have no problem saying that it’s also one of the most beloved movies ever made.
  • What’s special about Titanic is that the backlash happened so quickly, and became so widespread, and grew nearly as mythological as the movie itself. The film was released in December 1997, and a few weeks later, when it started to play around the country to surging, off-the-charts crowds, the voices of dissent had already begun to coalesce. For everyone who adored Titanic, and even (like me) thought that it was a heart-swelling masterpiece of old-fashioned Hollywood audacity, it seemed as if there was someone else who thought it was overrated and overblown.
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    Titanic movie
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Nelson Mandela Freed From Prison On This Day In History - 0 views

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  • On this day, 23 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from the South African prison where he'd been held for nearly 27 years.
  • In August of 1962 Mandela was arrested, jailed and convicted of leaving the country illegally and inciting workers to strike. He was sentenced to five years in prison, where he remained through June 1964 when he was sentenced to life for his anti-apartheid engagement through the African National Congress (ANC) and the Umkhonto we Sizwe or "MK," the ANC's armed wing. He would spend the next 18 years at the Robben Island penitentiary until 1982, when he was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison on the South African mainland.
  • As tension in the country grew, and as countries around the world tightened sanctions against South Africa and its apartheid regime, president F.W. de Klerk eventually relented.
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  • In 1985, the country's then president, P. W. Botha, offered to free Mandela in exchange for his renunciation of violence as a means of solving the countries racial problems. Mandela refused the offer.
  • On February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison.
  • Today, 23 years later, we honor Mandela's lifelong fight for his own freedom and for the freedom of his people, by taking a look back at 23 photos that encapsulate his impact on South Africa, and the world.
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    Nelson Mandela freed from prison 
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O. J. Simpson was arrested for double murder - National this day in history | Examiner.com - 0 views

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  • June 17, 1994: Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson is arrested for a double murder. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside Nicole's apartment on June 12, 1994. Both victims were repeatedly stabbed and both had defensive wounds, attesting to their struggle in the attack.
  • Police permitted him to turn himself in, thinking he was not a flight risk. O.J. was to be at the police station at 11 AM on this date. He didn't show.
  • At 2 PM, the police issued an all-points bulletin for O.J. His lawyer and friend read a disjointed and confusing letter from the ex-football star that sounded like a suicide note. The police tracked cellular phone calls to find Simpson. They found his friend, Al Cowlings, driving a white Ford Bronco heading south on Interstate 405. When police approached the SUV, Cowlings told them O.J. was in the back seat, holding a gun to his own head. Police backed away.
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  • Police followed the white Bronco down the freeway at speeds of only 35 mph. At the beginning of the low-speed chase, a lone helicopter flew above and filmed the event. As the pursuit continued, other film crews took to the air and radio announcers pleaded with O.J. to give himself up. The roadway was cleared of traffic and the country watched as a phalanx of police cruisers paced the SUV. The chase ended at 8 PM when O.J. was taken into custody outside his home.
  • "The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top." "I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed." "I have always wanted to be liked and respected."
  • "Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends. Please think of the real O.J. and not this lost person." - all from O.J. Simpson
  • "Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends. Please think of the real O.J. and not this lost person." -
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    O.J. Simpson arrested for double murder.
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