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- 1171: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an "antiwar correspondent", and found that ...
- 1172: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... own policies unbroken, and he endorsed Taft's nomination and election to the presidency in 1908. Immediately after Taft's inauguration in March 1909, Roosevelt left the country on a year long hunting trip through Africa. Roosevelt returned to the United States in June of 1910. He had been aware of Taft's activities while he had been gone, and he was not happy. Taft had turned from Roosevelt's progressive ...
- 1173: Thornton Wilder
- ... a novel that year, but was largely ignored by the critics. "Although over-age when America entered World War II, Wilder sought military assignment...and served in Air Force Intelligence in the United States, North Africa and Italy" (Block and Shedd 959). America's involvement in World War II changed Wilder's perspective. "He had too clear an idea of man's limited possibilities..." (Papajewski 109). Wilder wrote, "When you're ...
- 1174: Napolean
- ... and the British defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. These days of Napoleon trying to regain power are called the Hundred Days. This time they sent him to St. Helena a lonely island near Africa. There he died in 1821. Nationalism was an enemy to Napoleon because it led to the decline of his empire. And the nationalistic feeling that was felt between his opponents eventually destroyed him. Word ...
- 1175: The Cause For The Great Migrations
- ... and Burgundies, they were yet another Germanic group that the Huns forced out of their territory. They broke across the Rhine River into Gaul. They continued south through the Iberian Peninsula and crossed to North Africa, where they established a permanent kingdom in 429.They were Arians and persecuted orthodox Christians. They became very powerful in the Mediterranean Sea that in 455 they plundered Rome. This act, the cruelty in involved ...
- 1176: The Fall of the Roman Empire
- ... west across the Danube into Roman territory. The Goths were originally Roman allies, but they soon revolted and became enemies. The Goths sacked Rome in 410 AD and the Vandals, who attacked Spain and Northern Africa, sacked Rome in 455 AD. This theory, based almost solely on fact, is a direct and easy explanation of the fall of the Roman Empire. However, it is not the sole reason for the demise ...
- 1177: New Spain Essay
- ... isolated from the rest of the community, simply because of their social status, included; the poor Christian missionaries that opposed what the Spanish government was doing to the Natives, the Natives, the imported slaves from Africa, and a small handful of criminals and other assorted rejects. These people were no longer able to make their own decisions, and they did not have all the comforts of an upperclassman. Evidence of their ...
- 1178: How the Decision to Declare War was Influenced
- ... country where they originally lived. Socialists were critical of the war because they felt it was English and German business mens way of controlling raw materials and commerce in China, the Middle East, and Africa. They wanted America to be the peacemakers. There was also much sympathy for Great Britain and France due to the aggressive and cruel war they were fighting. Following the Zimmerman note, many brutal attacks occurred ...
- 1179: Greek Olympics
- ... Peloponnesian peninsula. The Alpheys River ships came, usually carried Greek statesmen and merchant princess. Most of them had traveled all the way from Italy, Sicily, Marseilles, the Black Sea and even the coast of North Africa. Among the arriving guest are poets, philosophers, princess, politicians, historians, soldiers, sculptors, and horse breeders. There were ever hobos from Elis and nearby Pisa. There were fishermen from the coast and off shore islands. On ...
- 1180: World War I
- ... his plan for the League of Nations. When the peace conference adjourned in June of 1919, the Treaty of Versailles included the following terms: Germany was disarmed and stripped of its colonies in Asia and Africa; territories once controlled by Germany were taken by the Allies or granted independence; and signers of the treaty would join an international peacekeeping organization called the League of Nations. Upon return to the United States ...
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