The Rise And Fall Of Hitlers Reich
.... always dreamed.
One of the teachers in his high school classified young Hitler as "notorious,
cantankerous, willful, arrogant, and irascible. He has an obvious difficulty in
fitting in at school." He did well enough to get by in some of his courses but
had no time for subjects that did not interest him. Years later, his former
school mates would remember how Adolf would taunt his teachers and draw sketches
of them in his school notebooks. Forty years later, in the sessions at his
headquarters which .....
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War In The Falklands
.... could not come to agreement. This resulted in a war.
Nobody really knew who owned the Falkland Islands. Some thought
Spain, Argentina thought they owned it, and Britain thought they owned it. No
agreements could be made.
Fact:
The war of the Falklands was a perfect opportunity to unleash
state of the art weapons on the opponents.
Later, after the first invasions, some messages went out over the radios.
The first ones told people of a small invasion, then they began broadc .....
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World War II
.... mistakes, we would not repeat them. There was also the Neutrality Acts.
The first neutrality act made it unlawful for the U.S. to ship or sell arms to
countries where a state of war existed. Roosevelt and the U.S. congress had
different views about isolationism. Roosevelt was not an isolationist, and was
concerned about what was happening. Congress, on the other hand, was not as
concerned. For example, Roosevelt could have eased European tensions somewhat
by wiping out allied war debts. Congress, .....
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The Aztec Empire History
.... their food. The Aztec Empire
included many cities and towns, especially in the Valley of Mexico. The
early settlers built log rafts, then covered them with mud and planted
seeds to create roots and develop more solid land for building homes in
this marshy land. Canals were also cut out through the marsh so that a
typical Aztec home had its back to a canal with a canoe tied at the door.
In the early 1400s, Tenochtitlan joined with Texcoco and Tlacopan, two
other major cities in the Valley of Mexico. Tenoc .....
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
.... was
dominated alternatively by Serbia and, from the 12th c. onward, by Croatia
(in personal union with Hungary) until the early 14th c. Typically, the
king of Hungary and Croatia appointed bans, or local governors; and, in
typical medieval fashion, these bans took advantage of any weakness of the
central monarchy to carve out territories for themselves.
In the early 14th c., the ban of Croatia was Pavao (Paul) Subic of
Brebir or Breberio (a town in Dalmatia which was given to the family in
1222): his fat .....
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Life In The 1900s
.... if we had to live in the 1900's.
During the 1900's horses played a significant role in the Everyday life.
A horse drawn carriage would bring a docter to the house of where a baby
would be born. A hearse was pulled by horses to the cemetery when somebody
died. Farmers used them to pull their ploughs while town dwellers kept
them for transportation around town. Horses puled delivery wagons for
businesses such as bakery, dairy, and coal company. Horses pulled fire
engines through the streets in a fire emerge .....
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Bombing Of Dresdon
.... undertaking., and it would henceforth
be paper-clipped to the plans of the bomber offensive. (Hastings). In his
report, Lindemann estimated that forty tons of explosives detonated in
heavily populated areas would destroy the homes of 4,000-8,000 people. The
report also stated that there was a population of 22 million people in
fifty-eight of the major cities in Germany. Lindemann claimed that a
nation of refugees could be the result of strategic air attacks. It is
wildly believed among scholars that the i .....
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Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb
.... make tomb 5 the
biggest and most complex tomb ever found in Egypt, and quite conceivable
the resting place of up to 50 sons of Ramesses II, perhaps the best known
of all the pharaohs, the ruler believed to have been Moses' nemesis in
the book of Exodus.
The Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just
across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It is never exactly been off the
beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums:
graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Gr .....
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The Evolution Of The World
.... Mecca was the highest point on earth and the polestar showed the city
of Mecca to be opposite the center of the sky. As one can clearly see,
many maps, had different centers. Each map had a different center, each
based on a different religion.
Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Greeks theorized
that the earth was a globe. But after that, there was a period in history
called "The Great Interruption." This period was categorized by a complete
silence where people in general, forgot about t .....
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French Revolution
.... the heavy tax exempt but neary so, while the peasents and middle
classes were subjected to greater and greater burdens. Crops falied, and
trade was stagnant. The people could no longer be taxed, but the
government faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were jealoous of
their privileged posistion. Altought they were not completely unwilling to
contribute some additional taxes, they never understood how grave the
economis crisis was. T .....
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A "Golden Age" For Athens?
.... was legendary. Athens had been sacked by the Persians during
the Persian Wars and Pericles set out to rebuild the city. The city's
walls had already been rebuilt right after the end of the second Persian
War so Pericles rebuilt temples, public grounds, and other impressive
structures. One of the most famous structures to result from Pericles'
building project was the Parthenon. The Parthenon and other such
structures re-established Athens's glory and while some Athenians
criticized the projects as too .....
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The Great Pyramid
.... to a 35 meters long horizontal passage that leads
to the so called 'Queen's chamber'. This chamber measures 5.2 by 5.7
meters and the maximum height of its pointed roof is about 15 meters. The
north and south walls each have a small hole a few centimeters square
about 1 meter from the floor. These lead into narrow channels that
originally opened on the exterior of the pyramid. At the juncture of the
ascending and horizontal passage is an opening of a shaft which descends
to a depth of 60 meters. It op .....
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A Comparison Of The Medieval And Renaissance Eras
.... area; the rose window, which was a large stained glass window that
was located on the front of the tower; and squared-off exterior walls, which
were a contrast to the usual rounded exterior designs that people were
accustomed to. Overall, cathedrals during this time could have very elegant
features due to the excellent techniques of support and stabilization.
Buttresses, simple extensions of the cathedral wall to enhance support, and
flying buttresses, stone structures set away from the cathedral wall and .....
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Referring To The Spanish Civil War
.... base and a very anti-communist attitude. He did not like
party politics, preferring to govern pragmatically, at first with a
military cabinet, but later on (1926) he decided a systematic government
would be more efficient. So he introduced the `National Assembly' intended
to represent different classes and groups, probably to soften the
opposition; as well as the Union Patriotica, created to mobilize popular
support for his regime.
Rivera also managed to strengthen the Spanish infra-structure, bu .....
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Jewish History
.... The victories of the German
armies in the early years of World War II brought the majority of European
Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish
people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main
city. Hitler's plan of genocide was carried out with efficiency. The
total number of Jews exterminated has been calculated at around 5,750,000.
In Warsaw ,where approximately 400,000 Jews had once been
concentrated,was reduced to a population of 60,0 .....
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