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Kelly Moran

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    10 greatest football teams in NFL history
Jilliane Velazco

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cd album music decline

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    they say this is "the worst decline in the history of the cd"; physical album sales have gone down 27% as of December 1, 2008
Brelan Owen

100 Years of Cheer! -- The History of Cheerleading at Chelsea's SpearIt Page - 0 views

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Johnny Campbell cheerleading football music

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  • a cheerleader named Johnny Campbell got so excited that he jumped out in front of the crowd.
Sarah Yeakley

Easter Holiday History, Facts, Customs, Traditions - 0 views

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Holiday History Traditions Easter

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    the symbols of Easter and what they mean
Brelan Owen

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cheerleader Johnny Campbell

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  • Johnny Campbell was the first cheerleader. Campbell started yelling with a megaphone "Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-U-Mah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Minn-e-so-tah!" After that people started calling him a yell leader
Mitchell Thomas

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U.S. navy

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    types of ships
Michael Smith

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air force jet technology

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    This provides history of flight and advancements in technology.
Christina T

Nichiren - Buddhist monk in 13th century Japan - 0 views

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  • Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 - October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro, later Zesho-bo Rencho and sometimes called Nichiren Shonin or Nichiren Daishonin, was a Buddhist monk in 13th century Japan, and founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a Buddhist movement which continues today.
  • Nichiren believed that the teachings contained in the Lotus Sutra were given by the Buddha Shakyamuni.
  • One central theme in the Lotus Sutra, which was emphasized by Nichiren and is emphasized in Nichiren Buddhism today, is that enlightenment may be attained in a single lifetime.
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  • he declared his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as the true Buddhism.
  • He wrote a religious treatise called the Rissho Ankoku Ron (On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land), in which he attributed a series of natural disasters including tsunamis and earthquakes as well as foreign invasion (i.e., the Mongols) to the improper practice of the Buddhists.
  • Nichiren continued to teach his belief in the Lotus Sutra and Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, writing more treatises.
  • The writings were the Senji Sho (Selection of Time) and the Hoon Jo (Recompense of Indebtedness), which was written in memory of his Buddhist teacher, Dozen
  • He died in October 1282 at Ikegami, Tokyo, where he had travelled to take medicinal baths for his failing health
  • With the exception of Nikko, who dedicated his entire life to helping eternalize his teachings, the other five disciples to a man turned their back on Nichiren's philosophy.
Christina T

Japanese history: Edo Period - 0 views

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japan history edo

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  • n the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Ieyasu defeated the Hideyori loyalists and other Western rivals
  • Every daimyo was also required to spend every second year in Edo.
  • On the other hand, he enforced the suppression and persecution of Christianity from 1614 on.
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  • Therefore, the warriors (samurai) were educating themselves not only in the martial arts but also in literature, philosophy and the arts, e.g. the tea ceremony.
  • During the Edo period and especially during the Genroku era (1688 - 1703), popular culture flourished. New art forms like kabuki and ukiyo-e became very popular especially among the townspeople.
  • The most important philosophy of Tokugawa Japan was Neo-Confucianism, stressing the importance of morals, education and hierarchical order in the government and society:
  • The social hierarchy began to break down as the merchant class grew increasingly powerful while some samurai became financially dependent of them.
  • n the end of the 18th century, external pressure started to be an increasingly important issue, when the Russians first tried to establish trade contacts with Japan without success
  • All factors combined, the anti-government feelings were growing and caused other movements such as the demand for the restoration of imperial power and anti western feelings, especially among ultra-conservative samurai in increasingly independently acting domains such as Choshu and Satsuma.
Bibin John

History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 3 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views

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  • ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
  • In 1897 he flew in a balloon for the first time and thereafter became one of the foremost balloonists in France.
  • In 1905 he built an airplane consisting of three box kites connected to each other by bamboo poles, powered by a steam engine.
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  • THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
  • Orville and Wilbur Wright, the sons of a midwestern minister, displayed a high mechanical aptitude even in their youth. This, coupled with investigative natures, made Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912) ideal inventors. By their early twenties they had built a printing press and designed a new bicycle, which they also manufactured. They became interested in flight by reading about the glider experiments of German aerialist Otto Lilienthal.
  • By December of 1903, the brothers were back at Kitty Hawk with their first powered airplane, a double-winged, box kite-shaped contraption with an undercarriage attached to a stationary monorail track. On Dec. 17 Orville stretched out in the middle of the lower wing and took off on a 12-sec., 120-ft. flight. That same day, Wilbur flew for 59 sec., covering 852 ft.
  • five witnesses
Bibin John

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  • Ader kept working to perfect his airplane, and finally, with the financial backing of the French Army, he built Avion III, a flying machine similar in design to the Eole but with a longer wingspan and two four-blade propellers. On Oct. 14, 1897, Ader tested his Avion at Satory with a military observer team present. Ader claimed that that day he had again flown, but three witnesses disagreed with each other about whether Ader actually took off and flew the Avion before it crashed.
  • SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY
  • Langley was soon experimenting with models, the first of which were powered by rubber bands
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  • The result was the completion of a series of test planes.
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • This 30-lb. craft with a steam engine flew for 1 min. 20 sec. at an altitude of 70 to 100 ft. for a distance of 3,000 ft.
  • It was the first successful flight of an unmanned heavier-than-air flying machine. Langley's Aerodrome Number 6 had mechanical problems that day, but it flew 4,200 ft. in November of 1896.
  • In 1898, at President William McKinley's instigation, the U.S. Army awarded Langley $50,000 to develop a plane that would carry a man aloft. In December, 1903, nine days before the Wrights' test at Kitty Hawk, Langley tried out his new gasoline-powered experimental model. A mishap with the catapult caused the airplane to plunge to the bottom of the Potomac, and Langley gave up his experiments after being criticized by the press for the great expense to the taxpayers.
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