Fish or Cut Bait? Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway

“Our relations with Canada, happily always close, involve more and more the unbreakable ties of strategic interdependence. Both nations now need the St. Lawrence Seaway for security as well as for economic reasons. I urge the Congress promptly to approve our participation and construction.” When President Dwight D. Eisenhower included these sentences in his State of the Union Address in January of 1954, there must have been an almost audible sigh of relief from the thousands of Seaway activists, Congressmen, and lobbyists across the country. The previous year had not been an easy one for supporters of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, but now in 1954 they had the guaranteed support of the most powerful and popular man in the nation

The Unsung Vigilance: A History of Sentinel

At risk of over using a popular cliché, there are objects everywhere on the Gettysburg College campus that are “hidden in plain sight.” For some objects, it is easy to stay hidden in this manner. Though we as college students and faculty pass them each day, they are simple plaques embedded in the cement paths we walk on, or the porticos of the academic buildings we enter without even thinking. Yet for other objects, it remains a perpetual mystery as to how even the infamously dense mind of the modern young adult could fail to, at least notice. The sculpture Sentinel, the massive conglomeration of stone and mortar standing 10 feet tall, is one such object. The plaque that is embedded in the ground at the foot of this monstrosity provides only vague enlightenment. [excerpt] Course Information: Course Title: HIST 300: Historical Method Academic Term: Fall 2009 Course Instructor: Dr. Michael J. Birkner \u2772 Hidden in Plain Sight is a collection of student papers on objects that are hidden in plain sight around the Gettysburg College campus. Topics range from the Glatfelter Hall gargoyles to the statue of Eisenhower and from historical markers to athletic accomplishments. You can download the paper in pdf format and click View Photo to see the image in greater detail.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/hiddenpapers/1008/thumbnail.jp

Records of Indo-Pacific Echinoderms

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100 Spears Worth 100 Pieces : The Impact of Ashigaru on Sengoku Jidai

In the year 1545, during the latter half of Japan‘s Sengoku Period or ―Age of Warring States‖, the minor samurai Ukida Naoie was assigned thirty men and a small fief in the province of Bizen. His task was to cultivate and defend this small corner of the province from the ambitious and power-hungry lords and bandits that abounded in the Sengoku Period, but Naoie set his sights higher. Given direct control over his thirty men, a mere garrison force of infantry, he used them to conquer and rule over neighboring fiefs in the province. His reputation and his army grew with each victory and before long, Naoie controlled more than a tenth of Bizen and over half of his original thirty men had castles and fiefs to call their own. Naoie himself ruled out of Okayama castle, which he had built for himself, and kept a tight rein on his subordinates through taxation and rotation of service. In 1577 Naoie, after taking over most of the neighboring Matsuda lord‘s forts and province, stormed his own lord‘s keep under flimsy pretenses and seized control of the now expanded Bizen

Low cost, small-scale charcoal production in the Western Cape

Bibliography: leaves 94-96.Domestic grade charcoal with a fixed carbon content of at least 80 was successfully produced from the alien species Acacia Saligna. Carbonisation was effected using a Tongan drum kiln and average yields on a dry basis of 19.1 (excluding fines production) were attained. With fines included, the yield increased to 31.4 . It was shown that the earnings of woodcutters could increase by about 25 if they opted for charcoal production using this technology. Three kilns examined in the Western Cape proved to be more financially viable than the Tongan drum kiln. The Tongan kiln was however shown to have advantages over other technologies in charcoal production from invasive alien vegetation by unskilled labour

THE CRINOIDS OF THE BUlTENZORG MUSEUM.

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FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF IONIC LIQUID PHYSICOCHEMICAL EFFECTS ON THERMAL STABILITY OF MODEL BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Ionic Liquids (ILs) are substances with a unique physical attribute compared to that of solid ionic salts. At room temperature, ILs are molten salts that have a variety of physical effects that can play a role in their impact on other molecules, as solvents or solutes. They can play the role of the solvent in a variety of applications, from biofuels to organic catalysis or as excipients in pharmaceutical formulations. These ILs have a desirable use as solvents due to their ability to be tunable substances. Changing the cation or anion of the IL causes a change in its physical effects on other molecules that interact with it. The understanding that intermolecular forces play a large role in the IL’s physical properties is well understood. But there are a plethora of cation and anion combinations to form molten ILs and these interactions are rarely one size fits all regarding their impact on biological substances. The focus of this thesis is on the physicochemical effect of biologically compatible, or environmentally friendly, ILs’ impact on a set of model biological macromolecules. The understandings gleamed from the results lead to a subset of ILs and their impact on a subset of model biological structures to be applied to future study and therapeutic applications