Al Capone
.... wars. The most famous event that Capone was responsible for was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. At this occurrence, Capone's gunmen dressed as police officers and executed seven members of the "Bugs" Moran gang. This incident won Capone control of Chicago's underworld. In June 1931 Capone was indicted for federal income tax evasion and in October was tried and found guilty in court. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was fined $80,000. He entered Atlanta penitentiary in May 1932 .....
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Albert Einstein
.... Einstein. It is called his "Miracle Year". He published a paper on the Brownian Motion and the seminal papers on his theory of relativity. He received his doctrine from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation of molecules. He published three very important papers to twentieth century physics.
The first paper on Brownian motion made significant predictions on the motion of particles that are randomly distributed in a fluid, which were later proved by an experiment
The second pap .....
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Alexander Crummel Unsung Hero
.... contributions to African American life went beyond the doors of the Church. He also played a key role in establishing the American Negro Academy, a national organization for the best educated and prominent African Americans. Crummell also emphasized African-American self help and the need for education that was both solid and practical.
His ideas to improve the moral, intellectual, economic and cultural conditions of black people played an important role in preparing African-Americans for .....
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Al-Razi
.... books to all sacred books.
Al-Razi is considered to have been the greatest physician of the Islamic world. With reference to his Greek predecessors, Al-Razi viewed himself as the Islamic version of Socrates in Philosophy, and Hippocrates in medicine.
Al-Razi was a prolific author, who has left monumental treatises on numerous subjects. He has more than two hundred outstanding scientific contributions to his credit, out of which about half deal with medicine and twenty-one on Alchemy. He .....
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American Revolutionary War
.... For example we can see
their unification with the Continental Congress and the
Declaration of Independence where they agreed upon an
action which was benefiting for the country. The use of
propaganda was another way to create unity for the American
cause. An example of this is the book Common Sense by
Thomas Paine. It helped encourage the issuance of the
Declaration of Independence and pointed out the economic
benefits if they continued fighting against the British.
Event .....
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American Revolutionary War
.... The Americans felt that they should be able to
manage their own taxation, or to select people to manage
their taxation. What they absolutely did not want, was the
British taking care of their taxation. They did not want
taxation without representation.
The Townshend Revenue acts of 1767 were another
justification for the Americans’ rebellion. This taxed
imported goods, such as paper, glass, paint and tea. The
Americans felt again that their rights were being
dishonored. The Colo .....
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Analysis Of Karl Marx And Comm
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history of art. During this time, he spent a day in jail for being
"drunk and disorderly-the only imprisonment he suffered" in the
course of his life. The student culture at Bonn included, as a major
part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved, presiding
over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included some
politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and
enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy.
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Analysis Of Political Situatio
.... of the sanctions. In terms of the primary objective of displaying firmness and resolve to Iran, it was also very important that it show the rest of the world, and especially third world countries and the middle east, that the US would not back off. Portraying firmness to allies and/or enemies maintained and strengthened US credibility. Second, the US needed to strengthen diplomatic isolation within Iran. Receiving help from US trading partners enabled the US to do so. Economic sanctions hel .....
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Andrew Carnegie
.... but when taken to an extreme it can become harmful.
Although a captain of industry, Andrew Carnegie was peculiarly naïve or perhaps just eternally optimistic about human nature. He shared with many other philosophers in his democratic faith of common sense, decency and nobility of spirit within people.
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Andrew Jackson
.... took out his sword and cut Andrew across the fore head and left hand which left him scarred for a lifetime (World Book Encyclopedia, 1976) small pox a very deadly disease, during the times of George Washington, but he survived it (internet)
He went to Waxhaw Presbyterian Church because he wanted to be a minister. Later on, he started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone .....
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Arab-Israeli Conflicts
.... Jerusalem. By April,
Haganah, the principal Jewish military group, seized the
offensive, scoring victories against the Arab Liberation Army
in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British military
forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some
commanders assisted one side or the other.
After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been
established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David
BEN-GURION, the Palestine Arab forces and for .....
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Aristotle
.... the influence of Aristotle's teacher Plato.
The importance of wisdom and justice is also directly parallel the classical Greek ideology.
Aristotle believed that nature formed politics and the need for city-states (government) formed out of nature. Aristotle lays the foundations for his political theory in Politics by arguing that the city-state and political rule are "natural."
The argument begins with a historical account of the development of the city-state out of simpler communities.
F .....
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Articles Of Confederation
.... each state had one vote, according to its size or
population. No executive or judicial branches were provided
for. Congress was charged with responsibility for
conducting foreign relations, declaring war or peace,
maintaining an army and navy, settling boundary disputes,
establishing and maintaining a postal service, and various
lesser functions. Some of these responsibilities were
shared with the states, and in one way or another Congress
was dependent upon the cooperatio .....
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Articles Of Confederation
.... and that the five year period after 1783 was the most critical time in American History.” Robert Morris, secretary of finance, resorted to desperate measures with the Newburgh conspiracy in an attempt to raise funds for a depleted military; but it took an impassioned plea from General Washington himself to put down the rebellion. Furthermore, the Articles allowed for personal rights abuses such as unsubstantiated foreclosures on farms and ill advised loans to certain “ small groups”, the antithesis of r .....
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Assassination Of JFK
.... death of the
man charged with
the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald. The purpose of the
Commission was to
examine the evidence developed by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and
any additional evidence that may hereafter come to light
... to make such
further investigation, as the Commission finds desirable.
In less than one
week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF.
At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the
basic legal
rights of Oswald - innoc .....
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