In case of a tie, the Constitution directed that the election be decided by the House of Representatives.
A cylinder seal is a small, round cylinder invented around 3500 BCE in the Near East. It was particularly important in southern Mesopotamia. Cylinder seals were usually engraved with written characters or figures, and were used for administrative purposes.
There were two ways in which the Mesopotamians used cylinder seals:
- Most Mesopotamian sylinder seals formed an image through the use of depressions in the cylinder surface. This type of seal is linked to the development of clay tablets, and produces an effect similar to that of sunken reliefs in Ancient Egypt.
- The second was as for the seal to print images using raised areas on the cylinder. These were often used to print images on cloth and other two-dimensional surfaces.
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
Perhaps the greatest shortcoming of the Progressive movement was that it lacked any real political prowess, since most in Congress were the very corrupt people the movement itself was trying to overtake.
