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What does SS stand for in WWII?

The SS were headed by Heinrich Himmler, who only recruited non-Jewish members. During World War II, the group had grown to over 250,000 members. They acted similar to a police force, investigating, policing and even rounding up people and taking them to concentration camps. Some of the camps were run by the SS. Himmler was captured near the end of the war by the Allied forces.

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What is Martin Luther King's greatest legacy?

Martin Luther King's legacy included his dream of a world where children would not be "judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."As a leader of the NAACP, Martin Luther King, Jr. led African Americans toward racial equality through the power of nonviolence. He did this in many ways through demonstrations, sit-ins, boycotts and the famous March on Washington. In 1964, King was even awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. After his assassination, Congress decided in 1983 to make every third Monday in January Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in honor of his legacy.

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Who discovered the law of conservation of energy?

However, Mayer's discovery was not highly regarded, and it was not until James Joule's work that it gained attention. While studying electric motors, Joule found that the heat traveling across a wire was directly proportional to the amount of work done by a dynamo. He called it the caloric theory. Both Mayer's and Joule's work concluded that work transforms into a numerically equivalent amount of heat. The law of conservation of energy is the first law of thermodynamics, which is the study of work and energy.

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Which websites offer a free patent search?

The United States Patent and Trademark Office allows users to access full-text​ U.S. patents issued from 1976 onward. It provides PDF images of U.S. patents issued from 1790 onward. Users can choose between a quick search, advanced search or a search based on a patent number. It is also possible to conduct searches on international patents from this website.

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How did Khufu die?

Khufu, whose full name was Khnum-Khufu, is best remembered for his association with the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is also known as the Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramid was probably built during his reign, and its original purpose may have been to serve as Khufu's tomb. Most experts believe that Khufu was buried somewhere in the pyramid, but the exact whereabouts of his remains are unknown.

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How long has the Internet been around?

While ARPANET did fulfill many of the computational and networking functions society has come to associate with the modern Internet, it was a far cry from today's World Wide Web, which integrates rich media and hyper-linking capabilities. Tim Berners-Lee was responsible for the original design specifications and implication of the WWW, which he released in 1989. Since then, the W3C, or WWW Consortium, has been responsible for the direction and guidance of Internet construction and development.

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What are some important events in Missouri's history?

Following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the Louisiana Territory included the area that would become Missouri. On June 4, 1812, the Territory of Missouri became its own separate territory. Over the next six years, the territory's general assembly met and the first circuit court opened. On Jan. 8, 1818, the territory officially petitioned Congress through the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives for statehood.\nFollowing statehood and solidification of its borders, Missouri opened the University of Missouri on April 14, 1841, becoming the first college west of the Mississ..

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What happened during the 1976 presidential election?

President Ford faced California governor Ronald Reagan in the Republican Party primary. Ford decided to participate just before the start of the primary season after previously announcing he would not run for the Republican Party nomination. The race for the nomination was close until the Republican National Convention, where Governor Reagan announced Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate. The move influenced conservative Republicans to vote for Ford.\n\nGovernor Carter received the Democratic Party nomination with a platform emphasizing ecological responsibility, government efficiency..

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What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

When Fidel Castro overthrew the government of President Fulgencio Batista in Cuba in 1959, he immediately alienated the United States by nationalizing American companies and seizing American-held land. President Dwight Eisenhower approved and initiated a plan to train and use Cuban refugees to overthrown Castro in March 1960, and John F. Kennedy assumed oversight of the plan when he became president. Training of the 1400-man group of exiles began in Florida and continued in Central America. The Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba was chosen for the landing site because the area was sparsely..

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How was Albert Einstein's life as a child?

Later in life, Einstein pointed to a couple of turning points in his childhood. The first was at age 5 when the youngster was given a compass. The boy marveled at how the needle of the object seemed to move without any mechanical means. Einstein also read a geometry book over and over again at age 12.\nA turning point in the physicist's teenage years came in 1889. Polish medical student Max Talmud introduced Einstein to concepts such as higher mathematics, philosophy and science. One book encouraged Einstein to imagine what it was like to fly next to a beam of light by using a "thought ex..

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