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    The air turned black all around me. Something was going on. I was at the old destroyed science lab. Something was emitting radioactive surges. Then I remembered, five years ago a crazed scientist named ben destroyed half of the lab and overtook the other half to create a radioactive toilet weapon. Unfortunately, it out of hand and one day a big radioactive surge occurred while he was working on it and it killed him. But now the toilet was getting out of hand and it was starting to slowly destroy…

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    flesh, draped across the contorting furniture of my space. My colorless eyes reflected the entire color spectrum. My legs, all sixty of them, were in various states of motion. A long leg curled around a floating body of water and I watched the universes through the liquid. My senses shift through the universes until I detected him. He piloted a Dynaject battleship against thousands of swarming, buzzing space creatures. A heartbeat before the space creatures disabled the battleship, I felt a…

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    The Race Through Space The Race Through Space is the newest and spectacular roller coaster in Pennsylvania that goes at a speed of 0-50 miles per hour in three seconds. This roller coaster takes you through all eight planets going at an average speed of sixty miles per hour. Race Through Space starts by shooting you up a whopping 210-foot hill reaching the Sun at instantaneous speed before adventuring through the planets. These planets are created to appear like the actual planet.…

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    satellite, but it had started the Space Race, and one of the biggest leaps for humanity. We have been nearly oblivious to what has happened in the space race, including why the race to the moon became big and fast at that, what other smaller successes were, and what the Apollo program was like. The Moon and the Space Race blew up around the mid 1900’s, but it wasn't just Sputnik that started the space race, it was a mess of proposals, orders, and challenges. The space race started during the…

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    Union in the Space Race? On many occasions we are reminded that the US were the first people to step foot on the moon. Although this is such a great accomplishment, considering the US defeated the Soviet Union in the Space Race, there are still many conspiracies that say the moon landing was fake. The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for the greatest achievements in space exploration. But on July 16, 1969, the US sent mission Apollo 11 into space, and…

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    Space race - the space race was a race to prove the superiority of its technology, military fire power, & its political & economic system. The space race was known as another Arena for competition between the Soviet Union & the United States. The space race began in the late 1950 's. Space race took action not too long after the Cold War. I believe this is a good placement because this event happened…

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    20th Century”, she writes “authorities in communities throughout America have used the rhetoric of “war” to define the “threat” posed by graffiti and to justify the mobilization of community resources to eradicate it. In the article “The Making of Space, Race and Place”, Maggie Dickinson goes on to explain how in New York City, the mayor has tried to stop the practice of graffiti by making laws. She explains how the police and the government have tried so many ways to stop people from doing…

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    Union on October 4, 1957 and orbited the Earth for three months. At this moment the Soviet Union had officially started the Space Race and was currently in the lead. During this time the US citizens reacted differently. “From the 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to surpass each other in feats of space exploration. What became known as "the space race" began with the Soviet's successful launch of the first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957. Sputnik…

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    Mary, Martin Luther King—the list is endless but these great historical figures have all seen the balls of light and gas that shine in the sky tonight. That’s all they are, floating matter in a vast, unknown space we call “outer space” simply because it resides outside the front door. Space. It envelopes us like an old, soft blanket with moth bites here and stains there. At other times, however, it seems as if it’s a blindfold; perhaps the dark universe is trying to protect us from a sinister…

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    The cold war, 1960: took place in the U.S, a war that never took place on the battlefield nor a single bullet was fired, (some might say otherwise).it was more or less a race between two opposing ideologies of which who won the race would prove to the world its dominance. During the 1960s, the war was in full force and the race war, set to defeat communism. The American government feared communism due to it threatening the American way of life and how the U.S came to be. Communism is an ideology…

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