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- 4661: Progressivism
- ... s Charles Evans Hughes, California’s Hiram Johnson, and Wisconsin’s Robert La Follete put the initiative, referendum, and recall to use so that they could win back their government for the people from the big businesses, and corrupt bosses. With the new reforms the political machine was left out to rust and Progressives cured democracy by using or making more of it.
- 4662: Al Capone
- ... New York to be his lieutenant. Capone was able to rise to power by handling the emergencies and by handling political connections. In 1920, mobster Johnny Torrio had an inspiration. He discovered that there was big money to be made with an outlawed liquor business. He needed a lieutenant to run his business, and picked a 23-year-old bullheaded roughneck Al Capone from Five Points Gang of New York to ...
- 4663: Roswell
- ... have happened worldwide. The US federal government owns miles of land throughout the Nevada and Arizona where it conducts top-secret activities that are believed to deal with alien technology. “Area 51 is the last big secret military base in the US.” In 1997 the Air Force finally admitted that the ultra-secret Area 51 actually existed. The Air Force has admitted that the base was used to test Cold War ...
- 4664: FDR
- ... upper-class citizens developed a deep hatred for F.D.R, claiming the New Deal was like a stab in the back of the well to do. Republicans argued that the government had developed too big of a role in economy under the Roosevelt Administration. Prominent businessmen joined to form the Liberty League, an organization formed to stop further New Deal legislation. Radicals, such as Father Charles Coughlin, who gave national ...
- 4665: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... They did so through the agency of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. They forcibly overthrew the provisional government by taking over all of the government buildings, such as the post office, and big corporations, such as the power companies, the shipyard, the telephone company. The endorsement of the coup was secured from the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, which was concurrently in session. This was known as ...
- 4666: Arthurian Legend
- ... and among those the famous Lancelot. Without Merlin there is no Arthur, without Arthur there is no Lancelot. So we now know that even though it’s called the Arthurian legend, all of them are big contributors to the legend.
- 4667: Julius Ceasar
- ... return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar was elected consul for 59 BC through political alliance with Pompey and Crassus . This alliance was called the first triumvirate. Caesar’s purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia ...
- 4668: Gandhi
- ... the independence of many of those countries. Fights for rights happened and still happen all over the world again and again because there are always people who push others down. I think Gandhi played a big part in the fight for humanity and the rights of minorities. I think Gandhi was and is still a very significant person. He changed people's minds and opened lots of peoples minds. Still today ...
- 4669: Ancient Rome
- ... wave of barbarian invaders, especially the Huns, chipped away at the state. Eventually some of the provinces had to be abandoned. At the end of the third century, Emperor Diocletian decided the empire was two big, and split it in two. He ruled the east from Turkey, and commissioned Maximian to rule the west from Milan. He called this form of government the Dominate, from Latin dominus, meaning master. There were ...
- 4670: The Steam Engine
- ... Because of the steam engine, countries could now import and export with other countries at a faster pace than the wooden ships. “Road Locomotives were fitted to carry out relatively long and fast journeys, hauling big loads on the hard road surfaces. This was an alternative to transporting products through railways, because there was a lack of the choice of routes.” (Wise, 56) The steam engine used in these “Road Locomotives ...
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