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Crane Brinton in The Anatomy of Revolution saw the revolution as a driver of expansionism in, for example, Stalinist Russia, the United States and the Napoleonic Empire. Christopher Booker believed that wishful thinking can generate a "dream phase" of expansionism such as in the European Union , which is short-lived and unreliable.
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [367] [375] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802)
Model outputs include daily fluxes of various N-gas species (e.g., N 2 O, NO x, N 2); daily CO 2 flux from heterotrophic soil respiration; soil organic C and N; net primary productivity; daily water and nitrate (NO 3) leaching, and other ecosystem parameters. Daycent has been tested using data from various native and managed systems.
A saltpetre works or nitrary [1] is a place of production of potassium nitrate or saltpetre used primarily for the manufacture of gunpowder. The saltpeter occurs naturally in certain places like the "Caves of Salnitre" ( Collbató ) known since the Neolithic.
Expansion of slavery in the United States (2 C, 16 P) Expeditions from the United States (2 C, 51 P) F. Filibusters (military) (1 C, 10 P) First transcontinental ...
[5] [8] Finished cellulose nitrate was piled in 50-by-20-inch (127 by 51 cm) sheets in surrounding buildings. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] Some 300 feet (91 m) from the Works' nitrocellulose buildings sat a storage house leased to the Ammonite Company, [ 8 ] which used the building to salvage the contents of artillery shells for use as agricultural fertilizer ...
The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.