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- 4621: History Of Kosovo- Related To
- ... of Turks rapidly grew into a major ethnic group of the region. Though even in 1912 Serbs accounted for almost half of the areas population, rampant Albanian anti-Serb sentiment and mistreatment (murder, theft, extortion, abuse, etc) caused a new migration of Serbs from Kosovo to what had become the new Serbia. After World War One, the Austrian-Hungarian hindrance of the Serbian effort to stabilize their governments in Serbia and ...
- 4622: Henrik Ibsen A Biography
- ... director of the Norwegian Theatre. He neglected both writing and the theatre. He plunged into social life with his literary friends and drank heavily. In 1858, Ibsen married Suzannah Thoresen, with whom he had one child, Sigurd Ibsen. This was a marriage that was often as misunderstood as the marriages of Ibsen's dramas. At the age of thirty, Ibsen saw his first performances of Shakespeare in Copenhagen and Dresden. Shakespeare ...
- 4623: Gilded Age
- ... also addresses social and economic changes. He said that progress merely provided a "gleaming surface of the Gilded Age. Just below that golden surface, however, lay twelve-hour workdays in factories, the widespread use of child labor, and large-scale business dealings
" (Cherny 4). During the gilded age, parties changed their traditional ways of voting and elections. Parties were at war to gain political majority in order to have control in ...
- 4624: George Orwell
- ... a woman of fifty
coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful." Now it does. He slips his arm around Julia's slim waist, and laments that they will never have a child. He imagines the woman bearing children, grandchildren, in a sort of "mystical reverence" that extends to the sky and all the people under it. Winston believes that the proles are immortal and that in the ...
- 4625: General William Tecumseh Sherm
- ... dislike for the such. 1829 proved to be an impacting year in his life, when his father died leaving his mother responsible for their ten children (Sherman 1). Sherman was taken in as an adoptive child by Mr. Thomas Ewing, a family friend (Sherman 1). This man proved to be an important figure in his life because his political influence managed to get Tecumseh into West Point when he was sixteen ...
- 4626: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- ... thereforem violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The "separate but eaual" doctorine of Plessy vs. Ferguson was overruled. Opponents of segregation hailed the Court's decision, but others denounced it as "an abuse of judicial power." In 1955 the Supreme further ruled that the states should proceed "with all deliberate speed" to enforce the Brown ruling. However, the desegregation of schools went slowly and met resistance by many ...
- 4627: Greek Daily Living
- ... to the household gods. The decorations on the doorframe indicated the sex of the baby; crowns of olive leaves symbolizing wealth and good fortune indicated a boy while wool symbolizing a life of housework and child rearing indicated a girl (Poulton 58). Louise Schofield, the editor of the book Ancient Greece, mentioned that children were considered infants until their third birthday. At a spring festival the toddlers were given miniature wine ...
- 4628: Great Depression Timeline
- ... 156 to 1,489 between 1920 and 1929, a phenomenal rise compared to other decades. But that is still less than 1 percent of all income-earners. 1922 The conservative Supreme Court strikes down federal child labor legislation. 1923 President Warren Harding dies in office; his administration was easily one of the most corrupt in American history. Calvin Coolidge, who is squeaky clean by comparison, becomes president. Coolidge is no less ...
- 4629: Gilgamesh
- ... the king, claims the right to have sexual intercourse first with every new bride on the day of her wedding, as Enkidu enters the city, Gilgamesh is about to claim that right. Infuriated at this abuse, Enkidu stands in Front of the door of the marital chamber and blocks Gilgamesh's way. They fight furiously until Gilgamesh wins the upper hand; Enkidu concedes Gilgamesh's superiority and the two embrace and ...
- 4630: Galileo
- ... Galilei, an Italian Scientist, was the man who discovered and created many theories that shaped the modern sciences. Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564 to Vincenzio Galilei and was the first child in his family. His family was part of the Italian nobility, though they werenΉt rich. His father was a merchant and musician, as well as a champion of advanced musical theories of the day ...
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