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- 6811: Marilyn Monroe
- ... in 1943 and was send overseas. Norma Jeane, while working in a factory inspecting parachutes in 1944, was photographed by the army as a promotion to show women on the assembly line contributing to the war effort. One of the photographers asked to take further pictures of her. She began modeling bathing suites and, after bleaching her hair blonde, began posing for pinups and glamour photos. By spring of 1945, she ...
- 6812: The Torture of the Kuwaitis by the Iraqis
- ... as the parliament building, and this was just the beginning. The palace of Prince Mubarak al Sabah, a close relative of the emir of Kuwait, was turned upside down. His basement was turned into a war room where Iraqi soldiers planned their defense of Kuwait against allied attack. "But he [Prince Sabah] will need to brace himself before he ventures upstairs into the nursery of the royal siblings. The doors are ...
- 6813: The French Revolution
- The French Revolution On July 14, 1789, an angry mob of French commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris. These low-class citizens had only one thing on their minds as they initiated a nation at war, and that was revenge - revenge on the King and the government, on the nobles and the wealthy. Dickens stunningly depicted the motive for this revenge, this hate that all peasants had for the aristocracy, in ...
- 6814: Martin Luther
- ... Luther disguised himself and went off to hide in the castle of Wartburg. While he was in Wartburg he began translating the New Testament into German. At that time the emperor was occupied with a war waging in France. This distraction helped Luther return to his work with aid of his followers in Wittenberg. Some of his followers went too far carrying out the reform. Luther tried to correct his follower ...
- 6815: Why Did Rome Fall?
- ... of management lasted for 600 years. It's obvious ill suitedness showed through though, when Rome's once strong rigid links began to jingle. When Rome began to crumble, its army went first. Besides causing civil unrest, with the people knowing their army was less than satisfactory, the loss of the army's comforting presence also caused a feeling of weakness about Rome. The economy of Rome was not perfect either ...
- 6816: Explanation of the Holocaust in Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
- ... shifted to saving the Jews, it was too late for the six million men, women, and children who already perished. Works Cited Badcock, Christopher. Essential Freud. NY: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1988. Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945. NY: Bantam Books, 1975. Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Ed. and trans. James Strachey. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1961. Rubenstein, Richard. The Cunning of History. NY: Harper & Row ...
- 6817: Kingdom of Benin
- ... by the Edo or Bini people in the 13th century, and by the early 14th century a royal court was in place. It was always ruled by a powerful king who was usually a former war leader. The kings, however, later became a more religious figure. The kingdom has been though to extend throughout what is presently southern Nigeria. One of its most successful kings was Ozoula. During his reign, from ...
- 6818: Albert Camus
- ... used a simple and clear but elegant form of writing to convey his ideas about morality, justice and love. In 1957, Camus received the Nobel price for literature. He was deeply troubled by the Algerian War of Independence and he immersed himself in the theatre and working on an autobiographical novel. He died in an automobile accident just before being named director of the national theater. The Theory of Existentialism Existentialism ...
- 6819: Albert Camus
- ... former French colony in Africa). His mother, Catherine Sintes, was a cleaning woman, and his father, Lucien Camus, was a farmhand. Only a few months old, Albert lost his father in the horrors of World War I in 1914. After the loss of his father, him, his brother and his mother moved in to his grandmother's three-bedroom apartment with his two uncles. The only way Albert "escaped" from this ...
- 6820: A "Golden Age" for Athens?
- ... Athens had been sacked by the Persians during the Persian Wars and Pericles set out to rebuild the city. The city's walls had already been rebuilt right after the end of the second Persian War so Pericles rebuilt temples, public grounds, and other impressive structures. One of the most famous structures to result from Pericles' building project was the Parthenon. The Parthenon and other such structures re-established Athens's ...
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