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Nuclear Age Nuclear Age
NUCLEAR AGE. The nuclear age began in mid-July 1945 when an 18.6-kiloton nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Three weeks later, on 6 August 1945, the world became aware of the existence of nuclear weapons when a U.S. B-29 bomber known as Enola Gay... Read more
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dominion status was the term chosen to describe the position of the self-governing member states of the inter-war Commonwealth. They were to be regarded, proclaimed the 1926 imperial conference, as ‘autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one... Read more
atomic bomb atomic bomb
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Mat Hoffman Mat Hoffman
Mat Hoffman 1972- American BMX rider Mat Hoffman, five years old, stood at the top of a home-made ramp in the family's backyard, perched on his BMX bike with only an older brother's grip to keep him from falling over the edge. He pleaded with his brother to hold on tight so, as older brothers... Read more
Gwendolyn Knight Gwendolyn Knight
Gwendolyn Knight1913-2005 Painter, sculptor Though Gwendolyn Knight showed an artistic temperament from early childhood, her career as a professional artist blossomed relatively late in life. After dropping out of art school during the Great Depression, she met and married artist Jacob Lawrence,... Read more
pattern bombing pattern bombing
pattern bombing, method devised by Maj-General LeMay during the Eighth US Army Air Force's (USAAF) daytime strategic air offensive against Germany in which the entire bombload of a formation was dropped simultaneously. The British had already discovered how inaccurate their bombing was (see Butt... Read more
Jedburgh teams Jedburgh teams
Jedburgh teams, groups of three uniformed men—an Englishman, an American, and a Frenchman—dropped into France at the time of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 (see OVERLORD), and for the following ten weeks. Drawn from SOE and the Office of Strategic Services, they acted as a staff... Read more
Forty-Niners Forty-Niners
FORTY-NINERS FORTY-NINERS. The discovery of gold in the Sierra in January 1848 brought hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters to California over the next few years: the forty-niners. The first to find gold tried to keep it secret, but the strike was too huge to conceal. News of the strike... Read more
Greenbacks Greenbacks
GREENBACKS Greenbacks were the paper money printed and issued by the U.S. government during the American Civil War (1861–65). The financial demands of the war quickly depleted the nation's supply of specie (gold and silver). In response the government passed the Legal Tender Act of 1862,... Read more

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