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- 821: Patton
- ... Division, in January 1942. [Biography] When he learned, that Rommel's forces were going to ambush his troops, through an intercepted message, Patton staged his own ambush. This was the first American victory in Northern Africa. The Allied forces, Gen. Montgomery, and Gen. Patton, had divided and destroyed the German North African Core. Patton recommended a plan used by the Ancient Greeks for the invasion of Italy. Patton wanted to lead ...
- 822: Malcom X
- ... black nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, and he began advocating racial solidarity, and adopted the Arabic name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. On February 21, 1965, while addressing an ...
- 823: Christopher Columbus
- ... what was in his heart. He was a sailor and wanted to find a way to India, so he thought that by sailing west he might be able to reach India quicker then sailing aroung Africa. Had he not sailed west surely someone else would have, but it was Columbus who landed in America. He was the one who had the instinct and ambition to sail west. As Schlesinger put it ...
- 824: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Historical Association) and as a naturalist (he was considered the world's authority on large American mammals and he led two major scientific expeditions for prominent American Museums, one in South America and one in Africa, each lasting many months). Had he not become President, he would be remembered for his contributions in both of these fields. In between these busy enterprises, he found time to ranch in the West, hunt ...
- 825: Adolf Hitler
- ... Germany into a powerful war machine and provoked World War II in 1939,when he invaded Poland. He built the Nazi party into a mass movement. For sometime he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and others whom he considered inferior. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20,1889 in Branau am Inn, Austria. Adolf’s father, Alois Hitler was a minor ...
- 826: Zimbabwe 2
- ... down on student protests in the early 1990s(TIME). Constant food and fuel shortages, inflation, unemployment, corruption, government inertia and the stalled program of land resettlement sparked widespread discontent in 1992. Another drought in Southern Africa added to the country's economic difficulties (TIME). Despite the continuing problems, ZANU-PF won a fourth general election in 1995 and Mugabe was returned to office as President in 1996. His government was not ...
- 827: Year 10 Asian History Origami
- ... in 1880 from the words oru (to fold) and kami (paper). Previously, the art was called Orikata. Meanwhile, paper folding was also being developed in Spain. Arabs brought the secret of paper making to North Africa, and, in the eight-century AD, the Moors brought that secret to Spain. The Moors were devoutly Muslim and their religion forbade the creation of representational figures. Instead, their paperfolding was a study of the ...
- 828: The Sun Rises
- ... she is telling her people, past and present, that the way to achieve their goals is within them (5-7). The narrator uses the word Afrika instead of Matt Parsons 2/14/00 Page 2 Africa to distinguish between the continent and the meaning she has placed upon the word. Through this metaphor the word Afrika comes to mean a continent of people, and their goals to achieve equality, instead of ...
- 829: The Imperial Aspect Of Heart O
- ... conquering the jungle for all its ivory is an arduous task after seeing a battleship fire its guns at the civilians. It was as if the tiny battleship was firing at the vast continent of Africa rather than the people. Conrad uses this metaphor to associate European thinking with imperialism. Unfortunately, Europeans, with the exception of Marlow, Kurtz and perhaps a few others, were primarily concerned with getting land- survival of ...
- 830: The Plague
- ... throughout the novel; and the main characters all represent this belief. Camus could not have created a better setting for the novel.The story takes place in the desert town of Oran, Algeria, in northern Africa.The city suffers from extremes of weather conditions; in the summer and the heat forces the inhabitants "to spend those days of fire indoors, behind closed shutters." The people much like the shutters are closed ...
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