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- 5221: Napoleon's Career
- ... France all over Europe including Spain, Italy, Holland, and Switzerland. The countries that Napoleon did not directly control, he was usually allied with. The turning point of Napoleon's career also came in 1812 when war broke out between France and Russia because of Alexander I's refusal to enforce the continental. Even the French nation could not provide all the manpower and supplies needed to carry out the Emperor's ... And because of the health of the French soldiers, there was little opposition for the Russian's attacks. Napoleon had returned to France to preserve his empire. With his desertion marking the end of the war. A lengthy bulletin had appeared in The Moniteur on the return of Napoleon. Until November 6, the weather was good, and the movement of the army was executed with success, but on the 7th the ...
- 5222: Alfred Nobel
- ... of submerged wooden casks filled with gun powder. Anchored below the surface of the Gulf of Finland they effectively deterred the British Royal Navy from moving into firing range of St. Petersburg during the Crimean war (1853-1856). Immanuel Nobel was also a pioneer in arms manufacture and in designing steam engines. Successful in his industrial and business ventures, Immanuel Nobel was able, in 1842, to bring his family to St ... work in the family enterprise which was booming because of its deliveries to the Russian army. Together with his father he performed experiments to develop nitroglycerin as a commercially and technically useful explosive. As the war ended and conditions changed, Immanuel Nobel was again forced into bankruptcy. Immanuel and two of his sons, Alfred and Emil, left St. Petersburg together and returned to Stockholm. His other two sons, Robert and Ludvig ...
- 5223: Thomas Jefferson
- ... rather than the weak hands of Spain placed an almost overwhelming obstacle in the path of American growth and prosperity. It was essential that America acquire the Louisiana territory, either through peaceful negotiation or by war. When French dictator Napoleon, suddenly offered to sell for $15,000,000 not only the port of New Orleans but the entire fabulous slice of land from the Mississippi to the Rockies, Jefferson was faced ... follow his favorite intellectual pursuits. He had not only aided in establishing a National Library, but had made many valuable additions to his own private collection. His second term was full of difficulties. To avoid war, Jefferson promoted the Non-Intercourse Act of 1806 and the Embargo of 1807. The Embargo was heavily criticized and had not been effective. To make matters worse, the domestic front was racked with defections and ...
- 5224: The Times They Are A Changin
- ... begin Don t which indicates a stronger will and mind set. For he that gets hurt/Will be he who is stalled, illustrates that if there is resistance to young people s ideas against the war in Vietnam, the idea of free love and the distaste for accepted social structures, that peace may not be an option. Dylan goes as far as to say There s a battle outside/And its ragin/it ll soon shake your windows/and rattle your walls. These stanzas are not literal in the sense of war, but lends emphasis to the will of the revolutionist s idea. Change will come; the battle is seen between good and bad, yin and yang. Although blood will not be shed, politicians, judges, and other ...
- 5225: Henry Ford: A Life in Brief
- ... to leave him, did Henry sign. He did not just sign, he gave them better terms. Henry felt a need to dictate. He had always been in control, and this was time was no exception. War broke out in December, 1941. Ford's factories were converted to plants that constructed war machines. Even in this time, Ford kept his love for nature and the old times. Henry constructed a museum. He even had his father's old farmhouse rebuilt. It was in 1942 that his son ...
- 5226: Kerouac
- ... Deck s statement is true, the book is a pleasure to read. Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922. Kerouac went to school in New York City and afterward served in World War II. After the war Kerouac became a wanderer, traveling through the United States and Mexico. Kerouac s wandering and experiences are what created the subject matter of his books. Even though Charters is friends with Kerouac, she is not ...
- 5227: Theodore Roosdevelt
- ... gave the nation a square deal. During his presidency to a position of internatio nal leadership. Roosevelt belonged to an aristocratic New York family. He attended Harvard Univerity. Theodore Roosevelt fought in the Spanish-American war with the Rough Riders at the battle of San Juan Hill. He had served as police commissiores of New York, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and vice president of the United ... its affairs. The American government withdrew its power when ordr was restored. In the Philippines c ivil government was put into operation, and a communications cable was laid across the Pacific. Roosevelt intervened in the war betwwen Russia and Japan. He invited the Russian and Japanese governments to send peace commissioners to America where a peace treaty was sighned in 1905. The following year the president was awarded the nobel peace ...
- 5228: Bar Kochba Revolt
- ... promises not kept to the Jews, and laws which suppressed the basis of Jews as a nation. To understand the reason for Bar Kochbas Revolt one must go back many years even before the war. Prior to Hadrian, an emperor by the name of Trajan was the ruler of the Roman empire. Due to the rebellion of the Jews in the Diaspora to the east and the west of them ... Bar Kochba was found dead on the front. However he was not found to be killed by a Roman, he was found strangled by a huge serpent. After they saw that Bar Kochba lost the war and died, they realized that Bar Kochba was no jhan. They renamed hi m from Bar Kochba which symbolized him being the jhan, "Son of a Star" to Bar Koziva "Son of deceit." Hadrian realized ...
- 5229: 1984, Science-fiction Or Reali
- ... 1984. The three major powers in the novel, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia parallel the major alliances that exist today. Oceania coincides with the modern day organization, NATO. As we have seen during the Persian Gulf war and the war in Kosovo, this alliance always enters into a conflict united. Eurasia consists of the countries of the former Warsaw Pact. These nations, though no longer bound by their communist governments, still have diplomatic relations(*). Eastasia ...
- 5230: Thomas Jefferson
- ... the National Bank was important and this is hypocritical by disregarding his principles. The Burr conspiracy depicted Jefferson as a ruthless, and a individual who will do anything inorder to achieve his goal. Jefferson championed civil liberties and unalienable rights. Yet, Jefferson violated civil liberties by coercing witnesses, arrested with out habeus corpus and prosecuting in a "court" of his own. Jefferson and Jeffersonians are hypocrites from the start and they destroyed political tradition as seen during Jeffersons' administration ...
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