Abolute Monarchs
.... his superiority over other European states. In the early 1680s, Louis adopted the Marquis aim and asserted his right to a succession of territories on Frances’s northeast border. Also, in 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, he forced France’s 1 million Huguenots either to leave the country or to convert to Catholicism. In 1648 Frederick William, backed by both the Dutch and the French, restrained Sweden in northern Europe during the negotiation leading to the Treaty of
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Battle On March 9th
.... water. Due to the low profile, the entire crew was located below the water line, so one armor piercing hit would kill the entire crew. The only individual willing to take command of the ship was Lieutenant John Worden.
The battle at Hampton Roads was part of the Peninsula Campaign that lasted from March to August of 1862. There was a total of five ships engaged in the battle. From the US Navy, there were four ships, the USS Congress, USS Minnesota, USS Cumberland, and the Monitor. The Confederate N .....
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Battles Of World War One
.... of the German army in a giant westward sweep across Belgium
and Luxembourg, and then into a giant wheel South into France.
This plan accepted the risks of an early Russian attack on the
eastern front, so when the French destroyed it the German
objective wasn't attained and it left the Russians with an open
window for an attack. The Russians took this opportunity and
attacked, which brings us to our second most important battle.
The Russians sent two armies into Germany that met in
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Bauhaus
.... of functional design. The third goal was to maintain contact with the leaders of industry so the students could be their consultants.
Ilkka Huovio stated in Bauhaus, The New Man - The New Technique that "The idealistic basis of Bauhaus was a socially orientate programme. An artist must be conscious of his social responsibility to the community. On the other hand the community has to accept the artist and support him" The movement achieved their believed responsibility to the community of Weimer, .....
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Before 1640, Parliament Was No
.... vast opposition against the Crown. With two contradicting ideals, Elizabeth and her prerogatives over the "matters of state" (religion, foreign policy, marriage, succession and finance) in which Parliament couldn't discuss without her consent. Parliament having the contradictory view that it was their privilege and right to discuss these matters. The era of Elizabeth is a chronological chart of parliamentary opposition. 1566, a petition from Parliament over her marriage, Elizabeth ordered them to .....
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Beginnings Of The Stock Market
.... index broke 1,000, and today it's barreling down on the 9,000 mark.
but he also
gave the company's publication, a daily two-page financial news bulletin called the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a more lasting appellation: The Wall Street Journal. But "Bergstresser" was deemed too long to be included in the company's name, and so when Dow invented his stock index 14 years later, he wasn't compelled to name it the Dow Jones Bergstresser Industrial Average.
Dow had created a stock average based on eleven companies for the Letter
, but his average almost entirely co .....
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Bell Hooks
.... class’ people” who have “no beliefs or values”(88). Professors expect these students to perform badly because of their past and their reputation in today’s society. The students are not given the fair chance other students receive. Knowing the way society portrays them, the students keep to themselves. Even after they prove to be serious and capable students, they are still looked down upon. Hooks, at first, thought that in order to succeed in college, she must change .....
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Ben Franklin 2
.... section of his autobiography, Franklin's message to his son is the same as the one to the rest of the world: how to go about making a success of oneself. "From the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and in which I passed my earliest years, I have raised myself to a state of affluence and some degree of celebrity in the world (1)," writes Franklin to his son. The text recording Franklin's life is more than simply anecdotal: "my posterity will perhaps be desirous of learning the means, which I employe .....
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Ben Franklins Autobiography
.... anyone may become Franklin's moral descendant) may have a filial interest in the events of his ancestor's life; (2) Franklin has the time and ability to write a good memoir; (3) his moral posterity, desiring self-improvement, may want to imitate those actions, "suitable to their own Situations," that led to Franklin's successes; (4) composing his autobiography provides Franklin the pleasure of recollecting his successes; (5) recording his memories permits him to return continually to more pleasures of rec .....
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Ben Quarles Negro In The Revol
.... at the Battle of Bunker Hill was Peter Salem who fired the shot that killed Major John Pictcarirn of the Royal Marines. But Peter Salem was not the only African American hero during the Revolutionary War.
Another African American, Salem Poor, also made a hero of himself at Bunker Hill. Several officers to the Continental Congress commended him for his bravery at the battle. This honor encouraged African Americans to take part in the war. Pomp Fisk, Grant Coope, Charleston Eads, Seymour Burr, Titus C .....
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Berlin Events
.... offensive missiles were being built in Cuba, President Kennedy, in a televised address on October 22, announced the discovery of the installations. He proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly. He also imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of offensive military weapons from arriving there.
For several tense days Soviet vessels avoided the quarantine zone, and Khrushch .....
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Berlin Wall
.... of the Wall was due to the more than fifty-two thousand East Berliners who crossed the border everyday to work in West Berlin. These people were referred to as the "grenzgaenger or border crossers." "East Berliners said the grenzgaenger were parasite who should stay and work on the East side of the boundary, for the benefit of Communism and the prosperity of the German Democratic Republic."(Galante, p.3) Gelb (1986, p.3) states, "Berlin was where the Cold War began with a Soviet blockade, where Soviet .....
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Berlin Wall 2
.... wall out, that were sold as suveniers. Later, larger segments and chunks were donated to sold.In 1990, Germany is reunited, the Berlin Wall is completely torn down. The allies controling the contries all declared their freedom, but the Soviets didnt declare the Soviet Sectors independence until 1991. In 1997, a large red line was painted in place of where the Berlin Wall stood. Finally, the Germans had been reunited after 28 years of suppression and seperation. Large celebrations took place as people st .....
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Berlin Wall Book Review On The
.... dangerous. Guard patrolled this area with guns. This didn't stop people from trying to get through though. People went to all extremes trying to get to the other sides, including crashing through the wall with cars.
The book then goes back World War Two to show how this all began. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States president Dwight Eisenhower had mixed opinions on what to do about Berlin and the Soviets. They both knew the Soviets couldn't be trusted. When the American arm .....
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Betsy Ross
.... changing the six-pointed star to a five-pointed star. Washington disagreed because he thought the five-pointed star would be more difficult to sew. Betsy quickly changed his mind by making a few simple folds in a piece of scrap cloth, and one snip to unfold a five-pointed star (2. Spencer). Betsy also wanted the flag to be a rectangle instead of a square. Betsy went to work on the flag. It was presented to and accepted by Congress on June 14, 1777. Just one short day before she was to marry he .....
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