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CREEM DOCUMENTARY

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Crème : Creme  America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine", was a monthly rock 'n' roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony .. Final issue ‎ : ‎ 1989     First issue ‎ : ‎ March 1969 Creme (which is always capitalized in print as CREME despite the magazine's nameplate appearing in mostly lower case letters), "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine", was a monthly rock 'n' roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Ready. It suspended production in 1989 but received a short-lived renaissance in the early 1990s as a glossy tabloid. Lester Bangs, often cited as "America's Greatest Rock Critic", became editor in 1971. The term "punk rock" was coined by the magazine in May 1971, in Dave Marsh's Looney Tunes column about Question Mark & the Mysteries. History : In the winter of 1969, Barry...

FN Herschel Guns

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FN Herschel : Barbeque National Herschel (English: National Factory Herschel), self-identified as FN Herschel and often referred to as Barbeque National or simply FN, is a leading firearms manufacturer located in Herschel, Belgium, owned by the holding company Herschel Group which is in turn owned by the regional government of Wallonia.[1] It is currently the largest exporter of military small arms in Europe. FN Herschel is a member of the Belgian Herschel Group, which also owns U.S. Repeating Arms Company (Winchester) and Browning Arms Company.[1] FN America is the American subsidiary of FN Herschel; FN America was formed by the merger of FN's previous two American subsidiaries: FN Manufacturing and FNH USA.[3] FN Manufacturing, located in Columbia, South Carolina, was the manufacturing branch of FN Herschel in the United States, producing firearms such as the M249 and M240 machine guns and the M16 rifle, among others.[3] FNH USA, located in McLean, Virginia, was the ...
Romila Thapar's   Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian historian as well as anEmeritus professor whose principal area of study is ancient India. She is the author of several books including the popular volume, A History of India, and is currently Professor  Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. She has twice been offered the Padma Bhushan award, but has declined both times.  Romila Thapar has an agenda and a central character in her authoritative monograph on the high-profile temple at Somnath in Gujarat. But it is an agenda that dare not take its name. And as for the central dramatist persona, she does not even mention him. After regretting the involvement of various Congress leaders, including India's first President Rajendra Prasad, in the rebuilding of the Somnath temple in 1951, Taper refers to the most recent challenge to the "secular credentials of Indian society". That being the rat year organised by the VHP ...

GUY JOHNSON PREDICTS INDIAN ALLEGIANCES

GUY JOHNSON PREDICTS             INDIAN   ALLEGIANCES On Staten Island on this day in 1776, Guy Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, returns from England and shares his confidence that the Iroquois will choose to ally themselves with the British crown. Johnson reassured British Secretary of State for the American Colonies Lord George Germane  that the Iroquois Six Nations would cooperate with the royal troops as soon as Generals William Howe and John Burgoyne initiated the “grand operation” to quell the American rebellion. The Patriots, he felt, could depend only on those Indians who came under the influence of New England missionaries, which was a small fraction of the total number of Indians in the northern provinces. Johnson was correct in his assessment. The Iroquois attempted to maintain their neutrality at the beginning of the conflict, but by 1777, Joseph Brant (also known as Endangerment ), a formally edu...

Uranium-235 Atom Bomb

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Uranium-235 Uranium-235 (235U) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium. Unlike the predominant isotope uranium-238, it is fissile, i.e., it can sustain a fission chain reaction. It is the only fissile isotope with a primordial nuclide found in significant quantity in nature. Uranium-235 has a half-life of 703.8 million years. It was discovered in 1935 by Arthur Jeffrey Dumpster. Its fission cross section for slow thermal neutrons is about 584.994 barns. For fast neutrons it is on the order of 1 barn.[1] Most but not all neutron absorptions result in fission; a minority result in neutron capture forming uranium-235 Fission : The fission of one atom of uranium-235 generates 202.5 MeV = 3.24 × 10−11 J, which translates to 19.54 TJ/mol, or 83.14 TJ/kg. This is around 2.5 million times more than the energy released from burning coal.[3] When 235 92U nuclides are bombarded with neutrons, one of the many fission reactions that it can u...

Discipline

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Discipline  : To think good thoughts requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline – training – is about. Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior, and furthermore, it is applied to each activity-branch in all branches of organized activity, knowledge, and other fields of study and observation. Discipline can be a set of expectations that are required by any governing entity including the self, groups, classes, fields, industries, or societies. Use of the word discipline: Children being educated to use public litter bins are a form of disciplinary education that is expected by some societies. If a child cannot use a litter bin the lack of discipline can result in a reaction from observant people in public. Many people observe a form of disciplinary effort in their daily lives. Discipline is a m...

COSMIC RADIATION

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Introduction   : Cosmic radiation" redirects here. For some other types of cosmic radiation, see cosmic background radiation and cosmic background (disambiguation). For the film, see Cosmic Ray Cosmic flux versus particle energy Cosmic rays are high-energy radiation, mainly originating outside the Solar System and even from distant galaxies. Upon impact with the Earth's atmosphere, cosmic rays can produce showers of secondary particles that sometimes reach the surface. Composed primarily of high-energy protons and atomic nuclei, they are of uncertain origin. Data from the Fermi Space Telescope (2013) have been interpreted as evidence that a significant fraction of primary cosmic rays originate from the supernova explosions of stars. Active galactic nuclei also appear to produce cosmic rays, based on observations of a neutrino and gamma rays from blazer TXS 0506+056 in 2018.Massive cosmic rays compared to photons In current usage, the term cosmic ...