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- 851: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... After taking control, Pol Pot cut Cambodia from the the world. Foreign and minority languages were banned and all nieghboring countries Laos,Vietnam, and Thailand were attacked. Rice and other edangered wildlife were exported to China for weapons. Peasants were ruined by war destruction, and many supported the Khmer Rouge guerrillas when they overthrew an American backed military goverment just days before South Vietnam fell. On the four years they were ...
- 852: Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
- Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492 to find a new trade route to China. If he had only known what that first voyage would bring upon him in the next 12 years he may have had second thoughts about ever starting the trip. Yes, he went down in history ...
- 853: Christopher Columbus Was A Villain
- ... events was as a result of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Muslim Ottoman Turks conquered and took control of the eastern Mediterranean, which was at that time, the only way to India and China for all the luxurious, exotic, Asian goods. Inevitably, the Turks marked up prices having control of the entrance to the east. This ultimately forced the rest of Europe to find new routes to the East ...
- 854: Hitler
- ... of Southeast Asia and had swept across many islands in the Pacific. Germany, Italy and Japan formed an alliance known as the Axis. Six other nations eventually joined the Axis. The U.S., Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union were the major powers fighting the Axis. They were called the Allies. The Allies totalled 50 nations by the end of the war. During 1942, the Allies stopped the Axis advance ...
- 855: Adolf Hitler
- ... of Southeast Asia and had swept across many islands in the Pacific. Germany, Italy and Japan formed an alliance known as the Axis. Six other nations eventually joined the Axis. The U.S., Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union were the major powers fighting the Axis. They were called the Allies. The Allies totalled 50 nations by the end of the war. During 1942, the Allies stopped the Axis advance ...
- 856: Marquise de Pompadour
- ... as Jean-Baptiste Pigalle and writers, like Voltaire. As a perfect mistress of the house, she particularly encouraged the decorative arts, interesting Louis XV in the porcelain manufactory at Sθvres, which then produced its finest china. Her many town and country residences were decorated in the delicate, floral Rococo manner often called 'Pompadour style' (her Paris mansion, the Elysιe, is now France's presidential palace). At the end of her life ...
- 857: Charles M. Manson
- Charles M. Manson In this world there are cults everywhere. Whether they're in the US, China, or maybe next-door there is always one common factor, control. Charles Manson was a cult leader in southern California during the sixties. Like all cult leaders Manson had his own small band of followers ...
- 858: Blaise Pascal
- ... science.' His first scientific work, an essay on sounds he prepared at a very young age. Once at a dinner party someone tapped a glass with a spoon. Pascal went about the house tapping the china with his fork then dissappeard into his room only to emerge hours later having completed a short essay on sound. He used the same approach to all of the problems he encountered; working at them ...
- 859: William Henry Gates III
- ... Published in the U.S. by Viking, the book was on the NYT list for a total of 18 weeks. Published in more than 20 countries, the book sold more than 400,000 copies in China alone. In 1996, while redeploying Microsoft around the Internet, Gates thoroughly revised The Road Ahead to reflect his view that interactive networks are a major milestone in human history. The paperback second edition has also ...
- 860: James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
- ... treaties, the Camp David accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the SALLT II treaty witht he Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic side, the administration's achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications and finance; major ...
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