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- 5491: The Irish Republican Army and British Rule
- ... before trial. Most of the leaders like Thomas McDonagh, Patrick Pearce James Connolly and Thomas Clark were all executed by a firing squad. Expect for de Valera, who was not executed because he was an American and could not be killed by the British government. Others that were connected with the rebellion were faced with long prison terms. Micheal Collins one of the members was put in prison and not released ...
- 5492: Dickens and "The Jew"
- ... uncommon to depict the Jews as crucifiers, Judases, murderers of innocent Christian children, and eternal wanderers. The weak hold of this tradition was brought about, it has been claimed, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and attention being paid to ancient superstitions concerning the Jews during the latter part of the 19th Century. Unfortunately, any attempt to reconstruct how the telling and retelling of biblical tales in rural England colored ...
- 5493: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... groups? Fifthly, what will the US led-NATO's illegal intervention achieve? Korea is still technically in war nearly 50 years after Truman's stroke to involve America in Korea. North Vietnam won its anti-American war and still controls the whole part of Vietnam. Let's see America's great "victory" in Iraq, Saddam Hussein still grasp his throne tightly. Will NATO drive Milosevic from his position? Ironically it seems ...
- 5494: General Sir Arthur Currie
- ... and French concepts, and with many of his own beliefs based on personal experience. Under Sir Arthur Currie, the Canadian Corps emerged as an outstanding formation on the Western Front. No force--British, Australian, French, American, of German--could match its marvelous, record, a series of successes without a single setback, by the end of the war. Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Curries was not pleased at the prospect of going to ...
- 5495: Great Britain
- ... nineteenth century, England was bringing back much wealth from these colonies. The trade in slaves and other goods from the colonies supplied the money to build the factories and the machines of Britains Industrial Revolution. The country developed heavy industries like coal mining, iron and steel manufacturing, engineering and shipbuilding. However in the twentieth century other countries revolutionised and began to compete with Britain in the overseas markets so British ...
- 5496: Great Issues In Western Civili
- ... Darwin is still alive and well in the 20th century. Lenin and Hitler are both great examples of how an individual can be the root of a great issue. Lenin was convinced that a Communist revolution could succeed in Russia only through a small, highly organized, fully independent party of professional revolutionists. These ideas led to a split in the Communist party ranks and the larger group, the Bolsheviks, followed Lenin ...
- 5497: General William Tecumseh Sherm
- ... publicly ridiculed and called insane, he later displayed great strategic expertise and proved his adversaries wrong. Although he begun his wartime career as colonel of a volunteer brigade, he finished it as General of the American Army and was even nominated various times to presidency. His most significant feats include the capture of Atlanta and Savannah, thus splitting the confederacy in two. He is also notoriously known for his famous "March ...
- 5498: Gibbons V. Ogden (1824)
- ... power as displayed in this, Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), and other cases, John Marshall has clearly devoted his life to the well being and formation of a better union. Just as the other well-known American men, he deserves a higher place in history for what he has done for all of America, throughout his time and into ours.
- 5499: Government In The Usa
- ... the unexpired part of the four years. Presidential elections: The President serves a four-year term and may stay in office for a total of two full terms only. He or she must be an American citizen born in the USA and over 35 years of age. Each of the two parties must choose a nominee from the various aspiring candidates. The presidential and vice-presidential nominees are selected at the ...
- 5500: Government Instructions Includ
- ... not let foreign powers gain footing in neighboring areas"(38). America has accomplished a lot of these tasks; perhaps that is why we are one of the world's super powers. We colonized the North American continent, we've protected our allies yet we don't give them much power, reduced the strong nations and threatening powers (Milosevic, Sadam, and Yeltsin), and we invaded many islands in the Pacific as strategic ...
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