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Liberty's Kids (stylized on-screen as Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS stations until October 10, 2004. [1]
Liberty 5-3000's masculine beauty evokes a "queer undertone", Horan avers, such that "[a]t the heart of the novel’s philosophy of self-reliance is a masochistic love for masculinity". [52] According to Knapp, Liberty 5-3000 is reminiscent of Kira Argounova, the protagonist of Rand's 1934 novel We the Living. [40]
Bunker Hill had an elevation of 110 feet (34 m) and lay at the northern end of the peninsula. Breed's Hill had a height of 62 feet (19 m) and was more southerly and nearer to Boston. [17] The American soldiers were at an advantage due to the height of Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill, but it also essentially trapped them at the top.
[41] [42] Hale "made sure the 221-foot obelisk that commemorates the battle of Bunker Hill got built." [41] Liberty Ship #1538 (1943–1972) was named in Hale's honor, as was a New York City Board of Education vocational high school on the corner of Dean St. and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. However, the school closed in June 2001.
John Trumbull's painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill depicts Pitcairn's death, though with several errors and anachronisms. Since no portrait of him is known to exist, Pitcairn's son David was used as a model by Trumbull. The uniform Pitcairn is dressed in was not actually adopted by the Marines until the 1780s.
A lengthy and stern code of regulations governed life at Bunker Hill Military Academy. Concerning the rules that cadets followed, Carolyn Scroggins, author of the essay "Bunker Hill Military Academy", wrote: "The list of important regulations for the cadets to live by was long and very rigid.
The Wake County chapter of Moms for Liberty filed challenges against 20 books that it says are not appropriate to be in school libraries.. The county school system has rejected all 189 challenges ...
PVA mortars and artillery harassed the Marines on Bunker Hill until dawn on 12 August, but the counterattack did not come until mid-afternoon, after Company B passed under the operational control of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. The defense of Bunker Hill became the responsibility of the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Gerard T. Armitage.