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- 461: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... to the American public with his stirring rhetoric, Wilson won passage of an impressive array of progressive measures. The Underwood Tariff Act (1913), the first reduction in duties since the Civil War, also established a modest income tax. The Federal Reserve Act (1913) provided for currency and banking reform. Antitrust legislation followed in 1914, when Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act and the CLAYTON ANTI-TRUST ACT. In 1915, Wilson ...
- 462: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James Walker Benet, a career military officer, and Francis Neill Rose Benet on the twenty-second of July 1898 (Roache 102: 11, 13). He described himself as a positive-thinking and modest man, who is thin, attractive, vivacious, whereas his wife and his mother-in-law would consider him a plain, tall, large biter-of- nails who carries a foolish expression, but whose intellect is too much ...
- 463: Miguel de Cervantes
- ... Middle Ages and early Renaissance but also of the sentimental and pastoral novels popular in Cervantes's own time (Byron, 24). The principal character of the novel is Don Quixote, an elderly village gentleman of modest means. An enthusiastic reader of old-fashioned tales of chivalry, he becomes obsessed with the idea of reintroducing the practice of knight-errantry into the world. In Part I Don Quixote equips himself with arms ...
- 464: Kurt Cobain
- Kurt Cobain A look Into the Life and Career of a Legend; A Proposal Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer/songwriter of the band Nirvana, until April 5 1994 when he committed suicide. Troubled by depression, chronic stomach problems, and an addiction to heroin, his ailments in his ...
- 465: Marco Polo
- ... last part of his life moving in Venetian aristocratic circles. After living what was then a long life, Marco died in 1324, only seventy years of age. In his will he left most of his modest wealth to his three daughters, a legacy that included goods which he had brought back from Asia. His will also set free a Tartar slave, who had remained with him since his return from the ...
- 466: General Denis Sassou Nguesso and The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
- ... to contain the crisis, the international community finally agreed a peacekeeping plan - pushed by France - for the dispatch of an inter-African peacekeeping force. Despite suspicions over Paris' motives, the UN Security Council endorsed a proposal for a total of 5,000 troops under Senegalese command with western logistical support. Crucially, however, the force could not be sent in until an effective ceasefire was in place. To achieve that, Joint UN ...
- 467: The New World
- ... commodity to be shared. There shouldn’t be exclusive rights to ownership. "Although the growing season was short, habitants were able to produce subsistence crops by employing Indian farming techniques, and eventually they developed a modest export economy" (Out Of Many,53). The Indians showed the Europeans how to use the land and what types of crops to use. They also showed them how to use complicated math and the patterns ...
- 468: World War I
- ... an advantage in the war. Mobilization however, relied more on the heated emotions of patriotism than on the laws themselves. Prior to even declaring war, Wilson had launched a shipbuilding program and had endorsed a modest addition to the army. Despite this show of preparedness, ignorance proved to be one of the biggest obstacles confronting mobilization. No one knew exactly how much steel or explosive powder the country was capable of ...
- 469: Effects of the WWII Atomic Bombs
- ... 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 ...
- 470: The Atrocities of the Vietnam War
- ... M. Nixon. These men and their advisors created a "policy of atrocity" in Vietnam. The decisions that created the most widespread destruction, besides the bombing escalation’s by Johnson and Nixon, was Robert McNamara’s proposal to JFK for a "quantified war". A "quantified war" is a war where the enemy body count, not territory, is the measure of winning or losing. Perhaps unforeseen, this notion of a body count led ...
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