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- 3701: Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
- ... gained control of Italy, eventually Vienna. King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia was offered the throne4. The first step towards German unity involved the Zollverein, a trade embargo abolishing tariffs. Liberals agreed unification would promote individual rights and liberal reforms. Prussian power called for German unity. Through war and diplomacy, Bismarck united German states into an empire under the King of Prussia. After the revolutions of 1848 Hungary rebelled against Austrian rule ...
- 3702: Abraham Lincoln
- ... American president had ever faced such a crisis. Lincoln had to find for himself the necessary powers to preserve, protect, and defend. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a bill to set most of the slaves free. Two years after that, President Lincoln helped win the Civil War against the Confederacy. I think that President Lincoln was a great president. He worked very hard to ...
- 3703: Oskar Schindler - A Saint in Disguise?
- ... astonishment. In anger. In disbelief. Though a controversial man of his time, Oskar Schindler, through bribery and lies, transformed the threatened lives of hundreds of Jews. Individuals can make a difference as far as human rights are concerned. Even though the initial motives for action may be less than honorable, the end may justify the means. The story of Oskar Schindler is a shining example. A German war profiteer of slave ...
- 3704: Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award ...
- 3705: Catherine The Great: Empress Of All Russia
- ... the administration of the state. In 1785, she issued two charters--to the towns and to the nobility--to involve the educated classed in local administration in return for protection of their status and property rights. In similar spirit, Catherine established the Free Economic Society to encourage the modernization of agriculture and industry. She promoted trade and the development of underpopulated regions by inviting foreign settlers such as the Volga Germans ...
- 3706: Andrew Jackson: Indian Fighter
- ... its authority over the Cherokee Nation, but its efforts had little effect until the election of President Andrew Jackson, a longtime supporter of Indian removal. Although the Supreme Court declared Congress's 1830 Indian removal bill unconstitutional ( Worcester v. Georgia, 1832), the national and state harassment continued, culminating in the rounding up of the Cherokee by troops in 1838(Encarta CD). The Cherokee were forced to abandon their property, livestock, and ...
- 3707: Mother Teresa
- ... for peace that prompted President Clinton to thank her for her life of commitment. Two years later in 1996, President Clinton signs a legislation making Mother Teresa an honorary U.S. citizen. In signing the bill, Clinton says, Mother Teresa has brought hope and love into the lives of millions of orphaned and abandoned children the world over. Princess Dianas untimely death in a car crash in 1997 brought Mother ...
- 3708: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
- ... a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The ...
- 3709: The Life of Malcolm X
- ... circles. He traveled widely in Europe and Africa and established his Organization of Afro-American Unity. He saw the black American struggle partly as a segment of the efforts of third world nations for human rights. In 1964, Malcolm X went on his pilgrimage to Mecca, which is obligatory for orthodox Muslims, and there he began to consider changing his views towards integration. In Mecca, he saw that it was possible ...
- 3710: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The ...
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