TNT

Canal. Many of these were tourists. The locals later established many tourist traps and tourist spots to attract more tourists to the canal. Songs were even written about the Panama Canal. To create the route of the canal, thousands of kilograms of TNT were used to pave the way of the canal. Although with this, increased the chances of dirt collapsing back into the newly blown hole-- completely filling the canal once more. Yellow Fever and Malaria were one of the main problems of the workers…

invasion. The bomb was a part of the famous Manhattan project and cost 3 years and 2 million dollars to build. At the test in Los Alamos, it vaporized the tower it was dropped from, and turn the sand into the glass as the equivalent of 67 pounds of TNT exploded with very intense heat. The test became a success and was ready to be used in the war against japan. “I have become death destroyer of worlds,” Robert Oppenheimer said this…

It is estimated that there are over ten thousand nuclear weapons around the world, and depending on the size of the bomb, it would take as little as two thousand to destroy all of North America and just thirteen thousand more to destroy the entire world. We have all seen the footage of nuclear weapons being detonated; the force of it and the power of it is jaw dropping. We tend to forget just how powerful a nuclear bomb really is. Over the past decades, as technology and knowledge of nuclear…

A fact that most people dont know about AC/DC is they got their band name from an old sewing machine. AC/DC was also the top selling band ever. AC/DC is a band that loves their music, but they werent a very safe band off of the stage. They werent a very safe band off of the stage because they would go out allmost every night and drink heavy. AC/DC may sound like a bad band so far but they were a great band on stage. AC/DC was a rock band that liked to have fun but got in some trouble along the…

The smoke grenade was first invented and when used first in WW2 it spread a cloud of phosphorus about 25 yards in diameter. (4) The improvement if the frag grenade made it more lethal and much larger. Instead of filling it with TNT in the past, it started to be filled with black powder. (4) Mines could both be used for water or land. Landmines were used more frequently in World War II than any other war before. (4) There were landmines made of glass so they wouldn’t be detected…

On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. Timothy McVeigh went into the annals of history for committing the single largest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States, killing 168 people – 19 of which were children. He was later captured that day by an Oklahoma State Trooper when he was stopped for driving a vehicle without a license plate and being in illegal possession of a firearm, then developed into the suspect of the event, indicted and convicted. On June 11, 2001, at 7:41 a.m.…

On Friday, October 10, 2015 at approximately 0243 hours, Conyers Communications advised me that Rockdale County Sheriff Deputies noticed a vehicle in the ditch on Salem Road just before Gees Mills intersection. I arrived to the location and noticed that the vehicle hit the embankment, struck a mail box and landed approximately 20 feet in the ditch. The vehicle was not occupied therefore; I asked who is the driver of the vehicle was. The driver identified herself as Monica Bettis. Bettis stated…

project was created to aid America in WWII and it was a success creating one of the most devastating bombs ever used by mankind, the atomic bomb. This bomb was the pinnacle of all bombs. its destructive power matched that of twenty-thousand tons of TNT. The Manhattan project started when Pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and…

Peter H. Brothers in the article, “Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla,” asserts that Godzilla, the dramatic, King-Kong like, sci-fi movie, was a result of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author supports his claim by adding history of WWII, information about Toho Studios and about the life of the director, Ishirȏ Honda. Brothers also includes books and films that influenced the making of Godzilla. The purpose of this piece is to explain the…

Pain. It is something that is unavoidable and something that everyone goes through in life. A beautiful piece of artwork is created and shared when a personal struggle of pain is used to inspire relate to others who can relate to the overwhelming pains of growing up. This is exactly what Shane Koyczan did in his piece titled “To This Day”. Shane shares and creates and strapping imagery in the minds of his viewers and listeners by sharing personal life struggles with pain, paired with the…