what heroic acts did Virgil1"Gus"Grissom accomplish with the Apollo fire?
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His and the other crewman's deaths taught NASA several painful lessons.  \n1. Not to use a pure oxygen in the cabin.   \n2. To have an emergency escape hatch on the inside of the rocket for the crew on the latch pad.  \n3. To have an escape chute available at the escape hatch\n4. To seal the electronic systems better.\n5. To have ground control from launch pad to orbit.
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I don't know how odd this is but almost 20 years ago I worked as the night manager at a convenience store.  \n\nWhile handing a lady her change I glanced outside at the gas pumps, there was maybe 3 people out there pumping gas.  I did a quick once over and noticed one guy next to his truck smoking a cigar while pumping his gas.  Immediately I went over to the mic to yell at him, and in the seconds it took me to move towards the mic, the top of the hose he was using cracked and started spraying gasoline all over him and his truck!  \n\nI screamed, and threw myself at the kill switches and in that eternal moment it dawned on me that I was about to die.\n\nBut I hit the kill switch, nothing caught on fire, there wasn't any explosion, and after removing the diamonds I just created in my a$$, I went outside and enjoyed the world's largest tirade against the now drenched cigar smoker.\n\nSo, how's that for an "odd" moment?
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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811–November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor, reformer and politician. His New York Tribune was the most influential newspaper of the period 1840-1870. Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties.
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Pine sap is flammable. Basically Oedipus is telling Bacchus (whoever that is) to come light his torch. If I had more context, I could help more. I studied parts of Oedipus Rex in school a while ago, but I don't recall this part.
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you know, the military and local police offers are here to protect us but also follow orders.  this disaster was a tragedy that tested how sufficient the government is when it comes this kind of devastation.  that sheriff is a hero in my eyes.  he didn't wait for orders that were not coming and let people suffer.  he did what he swore to do, protect and serve.  what kind of encouragement and acknowledgment is it to punish him?  he deserves an award at the very least.  he went and tried to do what the highest branch of our government was supposed to be prepared to do and did not respond.  his intentions were pure and noble.
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Hofa was the president of the teamsters union, probably the most powerful and largest union in the world. He was a made-man with the mob, I think in the gambino family, the mob has long held control over the teamsters union as well as many others. Hofa started overusing his power, pissed the wrong people off and got wacked\nmost people believe his body is in the concrete under the steps at giant's stadium
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Depends on which era.  On Gemini the missions were short and they did it in their space suits.  I'm not sure on Apollo.  I had the privilege to work for a while with Dale Gardner, who rode on the shuttle. He said on the shuttle they did it on a toilet that sucked the stuff with a vacuum.  He was funny.  He said that feeling that blast of cold air really made it hard to do your business!
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John Glenn, Jr., Astronaut / U.S. Senator \n\nBorn: 18 July 1921 \nBirthplace: Cambridge, Ohio \nBest Known As: The first American to orbit Earth
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Astronauts - Glenn, Schirra, and Carpenter. The other dead are, Grissom, Cooper, Slayton and Shephard.
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look here,  if i can find more i will add them.\n\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
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yes one person but after being cut free by the fire brigade he never did it again!!!!!!!!
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My favorite moment was when he brung in kane and the undertaker and kane fought in a fire around the ring or is that called and inferno
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famous 1902 volcanic eruption, most of the damage i seem to remeber being caused by a pyroclastic flow, killed about 27,000 people. I'm not sure if that is a myth or not!
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The "Illiad" by Homer, "Works and Days" , "The Odyssey" , "Hesiod" these are good starts. Also look up "Blindfold on a tightrope" by Ramfus S Firethorn.
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More information on Benito Juarez at this link. Can also check out links at bottom of article. \nGood luck!
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George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), was an American comedian and actor, arguably the greatest straight man of 20th-century American comedy.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missle Crisis.  The Berlin Wall went up and JFK gave a speech in Berlin criticizing communism.  Things heated up in Southeast Asia and JFK sent Special Advisors (one of them Robert McNamara) into Viet Nam to report on the situation.  John Glenn became the first man to orbit the Earth and Kennedy asked Congress to approve more than 22 billion dollars for Project Apollo, which had the goal of landing an American man on the Moon before the end of the decade.  Kennedy appointed Byron Raymond White and Arthur Joseph Goldberg to the US Supreme Court (both in 1962).  Kennedy used the term New Frontier as a label for his domestic programs. It ambitiously promised federal funding for education, health care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt the recession. He formed the Peace Corps and put his brother-in-law, Sargeant Shriver, in charge.  Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination.  He sent US Marshalls to protect the Freedom Riders and federal troops to stop the race riot at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith was admitted as a student.  His wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, refurbished the White House and secured funding for it and its artifacts by classifying it as a museum.  Also on the domestic front, in 1963 Kennedy proposed a tax reform that included income tax cuts, but this was not passed by the Congress until after his death in 1964. It is one of the largest tax cuts in modern U.S. history, surpassing the Reagan tax cut of 1981.