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Chapters for The Book of Threes

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Rosetta stone

Rosetta stone

Rosetta stone“This block had three sections of writing on it–one in hieroglyphics, one in another language called Demotic (another language used in Egypt), and one in Greek. This stone is known as the Rosetta Stone. ”

The following is a chapter from “Ancient Peoples: A Hypertext View,” draft by Richard A. Strachan and Kathleen A. Roetzel (1997)

Egyptian hieroglyphics had been used by the Egyptians for thousands of years. However, a particularly bleak period of Egyptian history is the conquest of Egypt by Persia. The Egyptians were dominated by Persian intruders. The events that changed the nature of Egypt were not the Persian conquest but rather the war between Persia (the rulers of Egypt) and the united Greek city-states.

 

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emergency alert systems

I. N.E.A.R Device – Nuclear Emergency Alarm Repeater – 1945

II. EBS – Emergency Broadcasting System – 1963 to 1997

III. EAS – Emergency Alert System – 1997 to present

 

NEAR device

I. N.E.A.R Device – 1945

N.E.A.R. Device
AIRING: Season 7, Episode 9
THE DETECTIVE: Gwen Wright
THE PLACE: Westminster, Colorado

THE CASE:

History Detectives peers inside a black box that may shed light on some of the darkest days of the Cold War.  The US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 raised the stakes of modern warfare.

Almost immediately after World War Two, America’s former ally, the U.S.S.R., became her Cold War archenemy.  the Soviet Union’s surprise testing of its own atomic bomb in 1949 helped trigger a nuclear arms race, with each side pursuing ever more costly and deadly technologies.

More than sixty years after the start of the Cold War, Wayne Gilbert, of Westminster, Colorado, has stumbled across an interesting discovery. Was this device invented to help Americans believe they could survive a soviet nuclear attack?

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third person point of view

Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told. We may choose to tell our story in

    * first person, using "I" or "we";
    * third person ("he," "she," "it"), which can be limited or omniscient; or
    * second person, "you," the least common point of view.

As a writer, you must think strategically to choose the point of view that will allow you to most effectively develop your characters and tell your story.

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