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- 231: Constantinopolis
- ... the 15th century the city of Florence was in the process of completing its cathedral. Piers had already been erected to support a dome almost as large as that of the Pantheon in Rome. A proposal for its completion was submitted by Filippo Brunelleschi, who had studied Roman structural solutions. His constructed dome (1420-36) is derived from Rome but is different; it is of masonry, is octagonal, has inner and ...
- 232: Muammad Ali Jinnah
- ... and not the Muslims. Jinnah broke with the Congress in 1920 over Mohandas Gandhi's policy of non-cooperation with the British. Still committed to settling Hindu-Muslim differences, he articulated his 14-point compromise proposal (1929) and attended three round-table conferences (1930-32) in London. Frustrated in his efforts, he then remained in London to practice law, returning to India only in 1934, when elected permanent president of the ...
- 233: Labor Unions
- ... notion that employees in an organization occupy a dependent position incapable of promoting their interests or negotiating terms of employment” and the fear that they will substitute unions (Karsten, 1999, p. 91). However, when a proposal for European works councils was laid to target the big multinational corporations, trade unions’ involvement was felt at all stages of the process. They realized that participation at such an early stage would give them ...
- 234: Kurds Vs Turks
- Introduction to Kurds: Kurdish lands, rich in natural resources, have always sustained and promoted a large population. While registering modest gains since the late 19th century, but particularly in the first decade of the 20th, Kurds lost demographic ground relative to neighboring ethnic groups. This was due as much to their less developed economy and ...
- 235: Hsi Lai Temple
- ... took about ten years for the completion of this temple (1988). The initial concept of building the temple started in 1978. It took six public hearings and over a hundred community meetings to clear its proposal of building the temple. The actual planning of the temple took place on August 22, 1984 and the actual construction of the temple was on July 28, 1986. The Hsi Lai Temple was built to ...
- 236: History Of The Civil War
- ... Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Grant had decided that the only way to win and finish the war would be to crunch with numbers. He knew that the Federal forces held more than a modest advantage in terms of men and supplies. This in mind, Grant directed Sherman to turn around now and start heading back toward Virginia. He immediately started making preparations to provide assistance to Sherman on the ...
- 237: Hiroshima 5
- ... least 50, 000 nuclear warheads in storage and ready with a handful of people in charge of them. In the words of James Conant, President of Harvard, "The extreme dangers to mankind inherent in the proposal wholly outweigh any military advantage." Has the atomic bomb introduced "the fear of total annihilation ...that has forever changed world politics"? That seems to be the main point of the argument against dropping the atomic ...
- 238: History Of Computer
- ... extremely powerful, centralized computational centers and toward a broader range of applications for less-costly computer systems. Most continuous-process manufacturing, such as petroleum refining and electrical-power distribution systems, began using computers of relatively modest capability for controlling and regulating their activities. In the 1960s the programming of applications problems was an obstacle to the self-sufficiency of moderate-sized on-site computer installations, but great advances in applications programming ...
- 239: Harry S. Truman
- ... planning their economic futures. In January, 1949, Truman addressed an estimated 100,000 persons gathered outside the Capitol building. Foreign policy was the main subject of Truman’s inagural address. He used to introduce a proposal for sharing America’s vast scientific and industrial experience with the many underdeveloped nations emerging from colonialism into freedom. He summed up the plan-which was shortened to Point Four because it was the fourth ...
- 240: German Unificatio
- ... order to insure that the Austrians were harboring no further resentment towards the Prussians, Bismarck gave the Austrian king Hungary's throne, instating the dual monarchy. There was no occupation of Austria, and only a modest indemnity. Prussia, however, was allowed to annex all of the North German states to form the North German Confederation. The Austro-Prussian war was much like the Persian wars. Persia had always been a part ...
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