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- 191: Modern Philosophy
- ... the second quarter of the 20th century, two schools of thought emerged, each indebted to the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The first of these schools, logical empiricism, or logical positivism, had its origins in Vienna, Austria, but it soon spread to England and the United States. The logical empiricists insisted that there is only one kind of knowledge: scientific knowledge; that any valid knowledge claim must be verifiable in experience; and ...
- 192: Sigmund Freud
- ... Sigmund Freud, an Austrian born during the Habsburg Monarchy, was one of the trailblazers of modern-day psychology. The american historiam william johnston sees freud, the father of psychoanalysis, among those personalities "that one made austria a shining example of modernism in a world that had lost orientation." In his function as a neuropathologist freud came to realize that he had no clear understanding of neurotic patterns despite his throrough studies ...
- 193: Human Life and Fire
- ... has been very unpredictable and out-of-control. This fact can be proved by just scanning through a history book -- the Holocaust, the fall of Roman Empire and the assassination of the Arch Duke of Austria, which began World War I. Human nature is strange and impossible to understand. Fire is close to the same. Science can try to come up with explanations of them both, yet the truth is not ...
- 194: Capital Punishment
- ... live mice or sparrows. This toy became a bestseller. The reformers in Europe reached their goal eventually; the death penalty has been abolished in many European nations such as the Scandinavian, West Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. The U.S.A. is one of the few countries that have retained the death penalty. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, famous for his criminal cases, believes this is an effect of the ...
- 195: Plagues and Diseases
- ... typhus. Let's delve a little deeper into that event. In the spring of 1812, Napoleon had reached the height of his power and glory. His empire spread eastward to the Russian frontier and to Austria. Two of his brothers were kings. His 3 sisters all sat on thrones in one sense or another. His first son was Viceroy of Italy. And Napoleon himself was currently married to the great niece ...
- 196: Anabolic Steroids
- ... as amateur athletes use steroids. Athletes first used drugs in compettition in 1954 when the team physician for the world weight lifting team, John Ziegler, went with the team to the world championships in Vienna, Austria. Ziegler then met the Russian team doctor that told him that the Russians where using testosterone. Ziegler brough the news back to the united states and soon every weight lifter was using steroids. Thirty years ...
- 197: Hitler's Weltanschauung (World View)
- ... part. Hitler maintained that war had never really been necessary between Russia and Germany, that there was no real conflict of interests. He also maintained that Russia had become Germany's enemy only because of Austria and the failure to renew Bismarck's Reinsurance Treaty with the Russians. Although Hitler did not see Russia as an absolute enemy, he did despise the Russians, whom he saw as inferior people because of ...
- 198: Nationalism In Europe
- ... Britain feared the German's expanding navy, and Italy was jealous of French and English colonies in Africa. The Ottoman Empire also struggled to survive in a hostile climate. Germany signed a secret alliance with Austria-Hungary and Italy, creating a Triple Alliance. France and Russia signed an Entente agreement which was later signed by Britain, creating Triple Entente. Then Europe was divided into hostile camps. During this time nationalism had ...
- 199: Was Khruschev's Foreign Policy Successful?
- ... conferences that ended the war between the French colonial forces and communist gorillas in Vietnam. Relations with the west were further improved when the Soviet Union agreed in May 1955 to remove its forces from Austria and to permit the reunification and neutralisation of that country. In July Khrushchev and Nicolai Bulganin met with the American, French and British leaders in Geneva. The meeting yielded a few concrete results, but it ...
- 200: U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939
- ... United States was pursuing a policy of appeasement toward Hitler. They had tolerated his military build-up and occupation of the Rhineland, both violations of the Treaty of Versailles, as well as the annexing of Austria and the take-over of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Hitler realized early on in his expansionist campaign that Western leaders were too busy dealing with their own domestic problems to pose any real opposition. In ...
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