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When night falls, however, a monster the people of Odo Island call Godzilla emerges from the sea. Their rifles ineffective against this living dinosaur, the mechanics urge Shikishima to get into his plane, where his big, 20mm guns stand ready to shoot it down. He does so, but when the ...
Old photos capture the way the world looked long before anyone living now can remember. It's a thrill to go back and sift through them to see people from the ...
California's population growth rate has slowed in recent years. Between 2014 and 2015, the California population was estimated to have grown a mere 0.9%. Between 2016 and 2036, growth is expected to slow to .76%, or 6.5 million people, according to California's Department of Finance. Demogr...
There is significant variation in how people experience, emplot and intergenerationally transmit experiences. Despite this variation, the literature rarely illustrates alternative manifestations or resilient responses to the construct of historical . Based upon person-centered ethnographic research, this article...
People called him Tom. He was born June 8, 1910, on Montana Street on the North Side of Chicago. His family returned to County Kilkenny, Ireland, when he was a child, and Cahill returned to San Francisco in 1930. Cain, Herman–[114 Pages, 21MB] – Herman Cain was an American ...
triumphs of immigrants, which seem to suggest that anyone can do great things with hard work, talent, and a little luck, I was surprised that these stories are actually rare. If America is a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all, why are there only a few people like him...
CALIFORNIA state historySCHOOL childrenSCHOOL shootingsCIVIL warHONESTYHISTORY of coloniesELEMENTARY schoolsBackground/Context: Across the nation, people living in the United States are embroiled in conflict over the meaning of its past. Many of the most fervent conflicts relate to...
The weight from all the people in the room was too much for the floor and, after an unspecified amount of time, it gave way. Dozens of men fell through and landed in the cesspool below. Reportedly 60 people perished: some were crushed, while others drowned. Henry only survi...
Blacker, “Two Shinto Myths: The Golden Age and the Chosen People,” in S. Kenny and J. P. Lehman,Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History, London, Athlone Press, 1988, pp. 64–78. Google Scholar On some very important dimensions of Japanese collective self in historical times, ...