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- 5101: Freedom In America
- ... was the strongest objection to the ratification of the Constitution. Less than a decade after the Bill of Rights had been adopted it met its first serious challenge. In 1798, there was a threat of war with France and thousands of French refugees were living in the United States. Many radicals supported the French cause and were considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and ... 16, 1965, thirteen year old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove it, stating that, "The schools are no place for demonstrations." If the student refused ...
- 5102: Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- ... his travels and personal communications, Allama Iqbal found that the Muslims throughout the world had detached themselves from the Qur'an as a guiding principle and a living force. After the disaster following the Balkan War of 1912, the fall of the caliphate in Turkey, and many anti-Muslim incessant provocations and actions against Muslims in India (1924-27) and elsewhere by the intellectuals and so called secular minded leaders, Allama ... was forced to give it, to mobilize its laws, its education, its culture, and to bring them into closer contact with its own original spirit and with the spirit of modern times." Iqbal's "Deeda-war" (visionary), is like Iqbal himself. He could foresee what others could not. Whereas others only have a short term view of things, a visionary sees the problems in a long term perspective and develops some ...
- 5103: Pope John XXIII
- Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, on November 25, 1881. He was educated in Bergamo and Rome and ordained a priest in 1904. During World War I he served as a medical sergeant and then as a chaplain. In 1921 he helped reorganize the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and in 1925 he was sent as papal representative to Bulgaria. He then served as apostolic delegate to both Turkey and Greece. During World War II he played a role in rescuing Jews from Nazi-controlled Hungary, and in 1944 he was appointed to the post of papal nuncio to France. He was made a cardinal and appointed archbishop of ...
- 5104: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- ... for Peace. He used his knowledge to create, educate, and lead. Sakharov became an engineer in a military plant at the age of 17. He was anxious to help his country, Russia, to win the war against Germany. It was there that he invented a device to test the cores of bullets. In 1945 he was invited to Moscow to conduct studies at the P.N. Lebedev Physicial Institute. At the ... now entered his last role for mankind, that of a leader. He began to participate in human rights demonstrations as well as pen articles on the arms race. Besides writing on the dangers of nuclear war he took the lead in other issues. He wrote about pollution, overpopulation and the need for a new form of government. His writings and his outspokenness got him fired from the bomb project, however in ...
- 5105: Articles Of Confederation
- ... the power to set up a postal department, to estimate the costs of the government and request donations from the states, and to raise armed forces. Congress could also borrow money as well as declare war and enter into treaties and alliances with foreign nations. With this power, Congress was able to make the Articles of Confederation look good by signing the Treaty of Paris in 1783. This treaty, signed along ... engaged in tariff wars with one another, bringing interstate trading to a halt. The government could not pay off the debts it had incurred during the revolution, including paying soldiers who had fought in the war and citizens who had provided supplies to the cause. (Doc C) In addition, the new nation was unable to defend its borders from British and Spanish encroachment because it could not pay for an army ...
- 5106: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... form through a branching process called "specialization." He understood nature's thinning mechanism, that when too many mouths are produced, fierce competition for survival ensues. Any chance variation, which confers an advantage in nature's 'war', will thus survive and be perpetuated, causing species to change. This Darwin called 'natural selection'. In 1838, he married his wealthy cousin Emma Wedgwood. In 1842, he and Emma escaped from London to live in ... to major changes; implicit in this viewpoint is an age for the earth radically different from the 6,000 years of the biblical creationists. Other key influences on Darwin were Malthus who had concluded that war and famine were inevitable as the human population grew more rapidly than available resources, and Lamarck who had proposed a theory of evolution based on a continuous process of gradual modification due to acquired characteristics ...
- 5107: History Of Gunpowder
- ... eighty-four, and had replaced gunpowder for use in firing shells by the early nineteen hundreds. But gunpowder was still made in large quantities in the United States for many years after that. During World War One, gunpowder was used as a base in many shells, bombs, and torpedoes. heavier armor and new types of fighting equipment used in World War Two required more powerful explosives, but gunpowder was still used as a primer for the artillery shells. Another guns in artillery or naval guns is as a charge for military salutes. An explosive is any ...
- 5108: Roswell
- ... big secret military base in the US. In 1997 the Air Force finally admitted that the ultra-secret Area 51 actually existed. The Air Force has admitted that the base was used to test Cold War-era aircraft, but authorities such as Colonel John Hanes are still reluctant to speak about the base. If you are talking about Groom Lake, Nevada
Quite frankly, I have no knowledge or expertise in the ... nearly $59,000 per year. In 1993 the federal government initiated procedures to seize another 3,900 acres adjoining Groom Lake to seal off two public viewing site. It is common knowledge that the Cold War has ended and that our government possesses nuclear arms. Why is the government so secretive if it is only performing routine tests? The people are aware that tests have occurred and continue to occur in ...
- 5109: Saint Francis of Assisi
- ... shall be called sons of God, is an accurate depiction of Francis. Though he did not regularly verbally promote peace, or prevent violence, he endorsed peace. Francis took this attitude after being involved in a war, where he developed his serious illness. He took it as a sign that war was not good. He never resorted to violence, and, as is related to his submissive nature, never confronted anyone except his father. When one looks at Francis's personality, one thinks of a peacemaker because ...
- 5110: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend When George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856, the Crimean War was raging and Queen Victoria of Great Britain had barely reached middle age. By the time of his death in 1950, the atomic bomb and television were realities. "By living for nearly a century, Shaw ... that "the unconscious hypocrisy of an innocence protected from knowledge of unpleasant facts can be a strong barrier against social change." This play was banned in England from public performance as morally offensive until World War I. In The Philanderer, the character Reverend Samuel Gardner "is a figure of farce" whose alcoholism and degradation may have been based on the same characteristics of Shaw's father, a technique he frequently used ...
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