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- 471: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... regime sought to plug gaps in domestic production with imports. By Soviet calculations, foreign trade added 11 percent to the value of the GNP in 1985, up from 4 percent in 1970. The USSR ran modest trade deficits in the 1980s. Fuels and electricity accounted for 40 percent of exports in 1989, machinery and equipment for 16 percent, and metals and ores 11 percent; machinery and equipment constituted 38 percent of ...
- 472: The End of the First World War
- ... Lodge was Wilsons bitterest enemy, and he would do anything to destruct him. Wilson regarded the League of Nations as the key to the whole settlement between the 27 nations. Wilson fought for this proposal, but in the end he lost. He did indeed have several objects holding him up. President Wilson had been warned several times by his advisors. He should have seen that this treaty was not going ...
- 473: The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan
- ... United States Government the vast potentialities of atomic energy for military purposes and warned that the Germans were already carrying on experiments in this field. The program initiated October of that year with a very modest appropriation and later expanded into the two-billion-dollar Manhattan Project and had only one purpose- to harness the energy of the atom in a chain reaction to produce a bomb that could be carried ...
- 474: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... from the U.S. not to invade Cuba. Afterwards, Scali went directly to the State Department to inform Roger Hilsman of the meeting. Since Fomin was a high-ranking officer, the U.S. assumed the proposal was an official one from Khrushchev. Later in the day, Scali was sent back to Fomin with a message from Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "I have reason to believe that the U.S. government ...
- 475: The Hundred Years War
- ... she had visions of saints come to her and tell her she was supposed to lead an expedition of French soldiers through the English held town of Orleans. Charles was not eager to except this proposal but was forced to given with little options left. The seventeen year-old Joan of Arc lead a vagrant army through the town and successfully claimed it back in the name of France. She also ...
- 476: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- ... European's, the natives had a very highly developed society, with a perfect system of government. Now, many centuries later, they see that their common future has been torn to shreds. If the self government proposal was put into effect, a natural resource would be needed for it's survival, and at the present time the reservations do not hold great possibilities. A better location in the reservations could quite possibly ...
- 477: Indus Valley Civilization
- ... mother goddess - still the most potent forces in popular religion. Indian independence and Partition in 1947 left most of the Harappan culture area in Muslim Pakistan, a circumstance that encouraged Indian archaeologists to explore more modest Harappan sites to the south and east of Sind and the Punjab. Excavations in the 1950s at sites in Gujarat exposed considerable sections of these Harappan settlements, including a large tank at the site of ...
- 478: The Environmental Movement
- ... testimony, they were apparently able to get the bill for the ban on shark finning passed. A third link leads to some pages which go into depth on the issue of toxic dumping and a proposal to dredge up the years of sludge in a canal in Waikiki. This includes press releases, newspaper reports, as well as the State Department of Health's report of investigation into a toxic spill on ...
- 479: Senior Citizens and Driving Tests
- ... propose a feasibility study on Driving Tests and the Elderly. I believe that it should be a law requiring people over the age of 70 to take a driving test every 4 years. From this proposal I hope to get the support and backing of the council to make this a law. There is a definite problem on the roads these days and it isnt teenagers, it is the elderly ...
- 480: Divorce
- ... order to uphold the marriage. My parents friends, Matt and Angie Rauen, were married about six years ago and shortly after Angie got pregnant. They had a baby girl, Olivia, and lived in a nice modest home, where they were content for about two years. Then as the relationship developed further, they began arguing and insulting one another. This continued until divorce was mentioned. They decided to get a divorce and ...
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