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- 5321: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... 233 electoral votes and 55 percent of the popular vote. April 14, 1865 Lincoln and his wife Mary along with guest Major Rathbone and Miss Harris are at Fords Theater to see the comedy "Our American Cousin". A muffled shot is heard. John Wilks Booth hurtled from the President's box and landed on the stage, breaking his leg. Booth shot the President in the back of the head. The bullet ...
- 5322: A Different Mirror
- A Different mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university, he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation ...
- 5323: Joseph Stalin
- ... After joining a Georgian Social Democratic organization in 1898, he became active in a revolutionary underground, and he was twice sent to Siberia. As a leading Bolshevik he played an active role in the October Revolution. In 1922, he became general secretary of the Party Central Committee, a position that he held until the day of his death. Stalin also occupied other key positions, which enabled him to build up enormous ...
- 5324: A Mafia Thing
- ... to strike deals with the Mafia, which ironically guards its home turf. (273) Italy in general, has added to the crime list of the Mafia for over 100 years. The famous Al Capone, the Italian-American gangster of the Prohibition era, also known as Scarface because of a knife cut to his cheek. (Nash 79) He was born Alphonse Capone in Naples, Italy, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He left ...
- 5325: Absolutism In The 17th Century
- ... Parliament continued to gain power over the King through the end of the 1600's, and would eventually become the leading governmental body of England. In France, around the middle of the 17th century, a revolution against the current monarch, Cardinal Mazarin, by the various and scattered parlements, who wanted the right to claim royal edicts unconstitutional, and nobility, who hoped to gain power by sanctioning the monarch or removing him ...
- 5326: Andrew Carnegie Preaches The G
- ... imperialism in US foreign policy, especially in the case of the US's war against the Filipinos. Carnegie taunted the advocates of President William McKinley's war policy by asking, "Is it possible that the American Republic is to be placed in the position of the suppressor of the Philippine struggle for independence?" He then went so far as to offer to buy the island nation from the US for $20 ...
- 5327: Andrew Jacksons Presidency And
- Andrew Jackson s Presidency and Policies In American history many acts of cruelty and or unjustified beliefs were acted upon. Some of these events were led by citizens and in some cases, such as the case of Andrew Jackson, led by presidents. Andrew ...
- 5328: Modems
- ... goes through a converter powered by AC current and if your power fails, so does your phone line. Satellite Modems The access service to Internet by satellite is called DirecPC. It was created by an American company of telecommunications called Hughes Network Systems Inc. DirecPC offers speeds of up to 400 Kbps. That's nearly 14 times faster than a standard 28.8Kbps modem and four times faster than ISDN (integrated ...
- 5329: Articles Of Confederation 3
- ... Articles of Confederation required the ratification by all the states, a measure that virtually eliminated any chance of change. The negatives of The Articles gradually magnified. The British refused to evacuate from forts in the American Old Northwest. Finally, Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts symbolized the feebleness of the nation, and inadequacy of the Articles of Confederation. Although, some states opposed a radical change in governmental form , it was inevitable by ...
- 5330: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... was not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for review. After a couple of weeks and a couple rounds around the department, the English professors were stunned. They realized that they had a real writer on their hands. >From then until ...
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