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- 2761: Inca Empire
- ... were twelve (Rosso 121). The suddenly death of the 11th ruler of Inca Empire, Huyana Capac in 1525 (or 1527) by a disease, left Incas without a leader and plunged the Inca state into a civil war (Inca 376). The two sons of the last Inca emperor, Huascar and Atahualpa started a war without mercy in order one of them to become the king. During this period of time the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro arrived. Pizarro had with him some 160 soldiers, 67 of them were horsemen, ...
- 2762: The Rift Wars
- ... not desire the lands of the other. After a time, however, their racial incompatibility began to wear on them. Since their basic attitudes and outlooks were so different, their infrequent encounters became less and less civil. Eventually, their leaders forbade their subjects to have anything to do with the other race. Feelings of mistrust and dislike grew as the years passed, eventually blossoming into hatred. Often, the younger, more hotheaded dwarves and elves disobeyed the orders of their elders. Members of each race began to stage guerilla raids on the other. Finally, the elves and dwarves declared an all-out war. The elves, armed with powerful magic, reduced the fortresses of the dwarves to rubble. Their skilled archers also decimated the dwarven offense in the forest. Defeat for the dwarven army seemed certain, but the dwarves ... goblins that remained alive fled into the Burning Hills, hid in the deepest holes they could find, and the orcs left Caspia altogether. Now the dwarves and elves, their populations equally ravaged, withdrew from the war-torn plains and went deep into the mountains and forests to heal their wounds. In time, the dwarves made a new home in the Farolas Hills while the elves moved to the southern portion ...
- 2763: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... made on equality. He started promoting non-violent sabotage, which including blocking the normal functioning of government. At one time, Malcolm X actually wanted "to join forces with King and the progressive elements of the Civil Rights Movement," (pg. 262, Malcolm X: The man and his times). To many, King and Malcolm X were heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. However, many have also seen that King was more pessimistic, while Malcolm X was more optimistic about separatism for most of his life. Some have said that later on in their lives, they ... of the lack of success the blacks were making in America. This discomfort is reflected in his "A time to break the silence" speech. In this speech, he openly condemns American involvement in the Vietnam war. He preaches that America should solve its own racial and social problems before sending vulnerable young men, especially black men, to fight other countrys battles. "So we have been respectfully forced with the ...
- 2764: Haiti
- ... French colonists, importing African slaves, developed sugar plantations in the north. Under French rule from 1697, Haiti became one of the world's richest sugar and coffee producers. However, after the 1780's, rebellion, class war, and invasions by French and British forces shredded the nations social and economic fabric. In 1801, a former slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture, conquered the whole island and abolished slavery. The independence of Haiti form France ... three seat Chamber of Deputies. The members of both houses are elected by a national vote for a term of five years. The Judiciary-has four levels: The Court of Cassation, The Court of Appeal, Civil Courts, and Magistrates Courts. Judges for the Court of Appeal and the Court of Cassation serve for ten years and are appointed by the president. The judges for Civil and Magistrate Court serve for seven years. Cities: Port-au-Prince - Founded in 1749 and rebuilt several times after earthquakes and fires. It is Haiti's capital city. Its architecture retains a distinctive French ...
- 2765: The Springfield Armory
- ... machine that would manufacture these wood parts using a metal template. This drastically improved production time because now, each musket could be produced faster for a smaller cost. In the period of time before the Civil War, massive advances in technology took place. In the 1840s, the unreliable flintlock muskets were replaced by to percussion ignition muskets. This new ignition system was much more reliable than the flintlock. The percussion ignition ... Europe. The faster the rifles were made, the quicker the troops could be armed. Throughout the length of WWI, the Springfield Armory produced over 250,000 rifles for the troops in Europe. Soon after the war, testing was done on a new advance in small weaponry, the semi-automatic rifle. The pioneer of this new aspect of rifles was John Garand. Once testing was complete on the newest innovation to ...
- 2766: Karl Marx 2
- ... is to raise So it is clear that the first step is to raise the proletariat to the ruling class, but how is this done? Marx writes that " we, traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat" (Marx, p.66). He speaks directly of violence when he says that: " ...
- 2767: Film Score Music
- ... and understand the feelings of the characters. This film contains a scene in which a young woman, Jennifer Jones, races along the railway platform alongside the train that is carrying her true love off to war. Steiner chose to use elements from familiar songs, I'll Be Home For Christmas, and Irving Berlin's Together, intertwined with a military sounding symphony part to exemplify to us the thoughts that were racing ... O'Hara), and finally a theme for Tara. The theme for Tara is the most effective because this old plantation and it's collapse in essence symbolizes the collapse of the Old South after the Civil War. This theme recurs throughout the film each time is is modified slightly to show to the audience the undying strength and endurance of the proud tradition of the Old South in the minds of ...
- 2768: The Immigrant Experience
- ... take any specific sides. Some believed that the freedom that they had gained under the English rule would be lost. Other felt that the taxes were too high and joined the Patriots. Later, in the Civil War, Jews took sides as everyone else. Their location meant everything. Jews in the north sided with the Union, and Jews in the south sided with the Confederacy. Unfortunately, a law was passed by Congress forbidding ... he found out. Later, between 1880 and 1925, many Jews came to America to escape anti semitism. One of the acts of anti-semitism was church supported violence against Jews in Eastern Europe (before World War I), which was legal. There were also laws which discriminated against Jews. In Russia, a czar had been assassinated, and Jews were blamed out of fear of a revolution. This caused a flood of ...
- 2769: Calvin Coolidge
- ... In the top of his list were paring the national debt and reducing income taxes, so that there would be more money for consumer spending. Other measures at his list included the steady growth of civil and military aviation, expansion of the services offered by the departments of the Agriculture and Commerce, regulation of radio broadcasting, development of waterways, flood control, and the encouragement of cooperative solutions to farming problems (Touchman ... America and Coolidge took a frigid position with respect to the League of Nations. Coolidge and the League of Nations repeatedly relapsed into indifference's to the World Court, and firmly opposed any cancellation of war debts owed by European nations to the United States. The achievement on foreign affairs won Coolidge the admiration of the public. His support of the Kellog-Briand Peace Pact increased his reputation worldwide as a man who denounces war and agrees to settle all disputes by pacifistic means. Despite his popularity and heroism to stabilize a booming nation, Coolidge declined to run for reelection. A man with little words his only reply was ...
- 2770: T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and Alain Locke's "The New Negro
- ... tradition that has no basis in reality. Locke cites several things that have made this tradition obsolete, but all of them concern the migration of black people to urban centers during the period between the Civil War and World War I. He says, "
the shifting of the Negro population which has made the Negro problem no longer exclusively or even predominantly Southern" (1585). Up until this point in time the problem of "what to ...
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