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- 1081: Concentration Camps 2
- ... in the quarantine and a few months in the labor camp itself. Every morning these prisoners had to endure roll call whereby they would stand for hours at attention outdoors in the cold, wind, and rain or snow. Anyone who fell was gassed. By the time the Auschwitz was destroyed and liberated in the summer of 1944 , over 1.5 million Jews and 4 million people in total were murdered at ...
- 1082: Battle Of Hurtgen Forest
- ... You can't see. You can't get fields of fire. Artillery slashes the trees like a scythe. Everything is tangles. You can scarcely walk. Everybody is cold and wet, and the mixture of cold rain and sleet keeps falling. They jump off again, and soon there is only a handful of the old men left." (Ambrose, p. 167) Not only were the fighting conditions horrible, but the reason for the ...
- 1083: Back In My Day
- ... die. Other examples from Biblical brutality are in the story of Noah, and the story of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Noah s case, after he built his ark, God then made it rain for 40 days and nights, flooding the earth and killing all inhabitants that were not on that tiny vessel. In the case of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, God rained down sulfur, burning the ...
- 1084: Aztec Indians 2
- ... populated the earth. This sun was destroyed by hurricanes, and the people were transformed into monkeys. People of the third sun, under the god Tlaloc, ate aquatic seeds. The world was destroyed by a fiery rain and humans were turned into dogs, turkeys, and butterflies. The fourth sun, presided over by Clalchiuhtlicue, was a time of gathers who ate wild seeds. They were turned into fish in a great flood. (Smith ...
- 1085: Anne Frank
- ... Amsterdam. In a seemingly ordinary manner therefore not to arise suspicion, they greeted people they knew along the way. They were carrying ordinary looking satchels filled with personal belongings; they journeyed in a pouring summer rain the short distance to their hiding place. On July 9,1942, they ventured to a building located on the Prinsengracht, one of the city s canals. At the rear of the third floor was distinguished ...
- 1086: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... rice crop. Rocket Festival The second weekend of May, and best seen in Yasothon, north-east Thailand. Prior to the annual monsoons, Northeast villagers construct gigantic rockets to fire into the sky to 'ensure' plentiful rain during the forthcoming rice season. The Rocket Festival is traditionally a period for letting off steam before ardous field work begins in earnest, and features beauty parades, folk dances, ribald and high-spirited revelry before ...
- 1087: Aztecs 4
- ... order to pay their respects to the gods. In the Aztec religion numerous gods controlled an Aztec's daily life. Some of these gods include Uitzilpochtli (the sun god), Coyolxauhqui (the moon goddess), Tlaloc (the rain god), and Quetzalcoatl (the inventor of the calendar and writing). Another part of the Aztec religion was human sacrifices. For their sacrifices the priest would lay the man or woman over a convex (rounded) stone ...
- 1088: Aztec Civilization
- ... was based highly on the forces of nature and worshipped them as gods. The god of war, Huitzilopochtli, was the most important deity. They had many other important gods, such as Tlaloc, the god of rain, Quetzalcoatl, the god of wind and of learning, and Tenochtitlan, the sun god. The Aztecs believed in order to appease these and many other gods that they needed to perform human sacrifices. The main purpose ...
- 1089: Auschwitz 2
- ... the Nazis had not had time to process it all. Proof that this hair came from victims of gassing was provided by The Krakow Institute of Judicial Expertise, whose analyses showed that traces of prussic acid, a poisonous component typical of Zyklon compounds, were present in the hair. In 1941-1944 prisoner of KL Auschwitz, then of KL Gross-Rosen and KL Flossenburg-Leitmeritz, from which he escaped in April 1945 ...
- 1090: Asia 2
- ... He (Yellow River) flow through vast lowlands. Climates in Asia range from equatorial to arctic. Vegetation is extraordinarily diverse, ranging from tundra, grasslands, and desert scrub, to coniferous and mixed forests, tropical forest, and equatorial rain forests. Animal life is equally diverse. Asia is enormously rich in mineral resources. The People The peoples of Asia are more diverse than those of any other continent, and they are highly concentrated in a ...
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