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- 12731: The Treatment of Prisoners by Nazis
- ... gas Zyklon-B inside the chamber to quickly kill a number of Jews at a time. All the prisoners that came into these camps were brought there by train. Every day trains would deliver a new load of Jewish slaves. These trains would come in from all over the Nazi-controlled Europe. On the slow ride over, the Jewish people were forced to stay in train cars used for animals. Also ... ingesting certain amounts of seawater. This experiment was conducted to benefit the Nazi Air Force. They also tried to revive a body after subjecting it to freezing. Another group of experiments was conducted to test new immunization compounds. The compounds were formed to treat contagious and epidemic diseases. The most horrifying experiments however were conducted on dwarfs and twins. The Nazi doctors tried to connect to twins to form Siamese twins ... and legs. Countless facts can be cultured by simply studying material pertaining to the camps. Some of these statistics include the layout of the camps, record keeping, death toll, and command staffs. Every day a new person learns about the Holocaust. It is an astounding time in history to learn about. The concentration camps hold so much information inside of them. The names of people who passed, and the names ...
- 12732: The French Revolution
- ... A revolution was needed, but the extreme cruelty and violence seems unnecessary. In the end, it worked; however, there was a significant risk of placing themselves in a worse position than they were previously. The new government may not have been better than the old government, and they could have created a great depression in their country. George Washington believed that there was not enough planning of the revolt against the government. They needed a new one and they didn’t plan their revolution good enough to build their new government, which is what their main purpose was, but they used their revolution for vengeance.service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated- of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times ...
- 12733: Ansel Adams
- February 20, 1902, a photographer was born. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams. Adams' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant. Ansel took an interest in music at an early age. He selfly taught himself ... him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This exhibition contained modern art that had been first presented in New York City in 1913. There was also a music exhibition that took Ansel's interest. Ansel took his first photograph in 1916 at age 19, when he and his parents went on a trip to ... Ansel's work for the first time, was exhibited in 1936. This was made possible by Alfred Steiglitz, who was a master photographer known as "a discoverer of genius." The exhibition was at Steiglitz's New York City Gallery, an American Place. This exhibition made Ansel the first young photographer to be shown by Steiglitz since 1917 with Paul Strand. In 1940 Ansel directed the first show of photography that ...
- 12734: The Persian Wars
- ... of Thermopylae King Darius planned a third expedition but died before preparations were completed, and was succeeded by his son, Xerxes I. During the time between the second and third expeditions, the Greeks built a new naval fleet. Thus, in 480 B.C. a massive ground and naval attack was unleashed upon the Greek city-states. The Persians, with 200,000 men, arrived at Thermopylae to find 10,000 soldiers of ... Persians never returned again. The Persian Wars deeply affected Western civilization. The Greeks began to culturally identify themselves. Herodotus wrote about the Persian Wars in the mid-400s B.C. and established himself as the world’s first historian. The Athenians advanced much in theater, philosophy, sculpture, and architecture. In the long run, Greece was free from outside influences and was able to pursue its own destiny.
- 12735: History of England
- ... Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons lived in Great Britain. Because of the melting ice the water level rose and the English Channel was created, making Great Britain an island. The Middle Stone Age passed in this new forest and swamp, followed by the New Stone Age when the practice of farming began. During this period a lot of new people came to Britain. By 2500 BC the Beaker people had moved there. They were named after their pottery, and noted for their bronze tools and huge stone monuments, like Stonehenge. These Monuments prove ...
- 12736: Australian People
- ... Asians make up 4%, and the Aboriginal make up 1%. The official language of Australia is English. It is spoken by more than 99% of the population. The languages come from Europe and Oceania. (Australia, New Zealand etc.) There are several Aboriginal dialects spoken throughout the country. The writing system is Arabic. The Australians often use mate as a way to address others. There are three major religions in Australia. Anglican ... make up 24.3% of the population. Burial services are very similar to the ones practiced by Americans in the US. The Aboriginal buries their dead and marks the burial grounds to symbolize the sky world in which they will be reincarnated. The Average Australian family consists of three members. The Father is the dominant member. There are some extended families of grandparents. Some Aboriginal now live in cities although most ...
- 12737: The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
- ... result of shooting, starvation, disease, and poison gas. Others were tortured to death or died in horrible medical experiments. Adolf Hitler and his accomplices did not just take over Germany. They tried to create a new Germany based on their ideology. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS The Nazis targeted many groups for persecution, among them Catholics, Poles, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, but only three groups were targeted for systematic extermination: Jews ... a labor camp and an extermination camp. About 1,300,000 people perished at Auschwitz; approximately 1,000,000 of those died in the gas chambers. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, people around the world were shocked by final tallies of human losses, and the people responsible were punished for their inhuman acts.
- 12738: The French Revolution
- ... in defending themselves against the king's army. The people captured the Bastille and began to tear it down. Massive peasant uprisings were also occurring in the countryside. The king's removal led to a new stage in the revolution. The first stage had been a liberal middle-class reform movement based on a constitutional monarchy. The second stage was organized around principles of democracy. The National Convention opened on September ... tyrant on July 29, 1794. He was executed the next day. The Reign of Terror ended with Robespierre's death. "The Convention, which had adopted a democratic constitution in 1793, replaced that document with a new one in 1795. The government formed under this new constitution was called the Directory. France was still a republic, but once again only citizens who paid a certain amount of taxes could vote." (Woloch, 527) The Directory began meeting in October 1795. In ...
- 12739: Vietnam War
- ... The United State became involved in Vietnam because they believed that if all of the country fell under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and then it would be all over the world. They could this the "domino theory". Then the US government supported the South Vietnamese government. The government's policies led to rebellion in the South while the NFL was in the North Vietnam's team ... 000 US Marines and Army troops were called into the area, thus weakening positions further south. The main attack of the Tet Offensive began on January 31, 1968, at the start of the Vietnamese Lunar new year celebration. Most ARVN troops had gone home on leeave, and US troops were on stand by. Over 85,000 NFL soldiers simultaneously struck at almost every major city and provincial capital across South Vietnam ...
- 12740: Babe Ruth 2
- ... owned. Many loved The Great Bambino . For several reasons why. Unfortunately only the children saw this good side of him. It was when Babe Ruth stopped by the orphanage to equip the children with brand new shoes that really shocked the children. For not only did the children see a great baseball player but also a fastidious man. But Babe was also abandoned in his life. And that s what led ... also when Babe Ruth was coming home from a football game. That a man burst out of the audience and yelled my boy, my boy he s dying, just sign this it would mean the world to him but not only did he sign the ball but he also visited him in the hospital After a eccentric conversation with Johnny Sylvester. Babe promised to hit a home run for the kid ...
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