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- 6821: The Aztec Empire History
- ... new fire of the celebration and feast. A partial list of the Aztec gods: CENTEOTL, The corn god. COATLICUE, She of the Serpent Skirt, EHECATL, The god of wind. HUEHUETEOTL, The fire god. HUITZILOPOCHTLI, The war/sun god and special guardian of Tenochtitlan. MICTLANTECUHTLE, The god of the dead. OMETECUHLTI and his wife OMECIHUATL, They created all life in the world. QUETZALCOATL, The god of civilization and learning. TEZCATLIPOCA, The god ...
- 6822: Albert Einstein
- ... without being accused as a draft dodger. As a result, Einstein remained without an official citizenship until he became Swiss at age 21. (Discovering world History) Since the outbreak of WWI, Einstein was opposed to war, and used his notoriety to lecture against it during the 1920s and 1930s. With the rise of National Socialism in Germany in the early 1930s, Einstein's position became difficult. Although he was a renewed ...
- 6823: History of the World
- ... between peoples. However far apart people may live from one another, they are affected more and more by the same political and economic changes. In some way, almost everyone can now be affected by a war or a political crisis in a faraway land or by a rise in petroleum prices in distant oil-producing countries. The separate cultures of the world seem to be blending into a common world culture ...
- 6824: The Unification of Europe Under the Maastricht Treaty
- ... bases scattered all around Europe housing thousands of U.S troops so the need for a joint European military force is unpractical. The military aspect of the unification treaty is merely a an outdated cold war era stipulation, which may have been advantageous a decade ago but is now obsolete. Addressing, the gov's point Full approval from all nations on passing the treaty is not expected for some time. Denmark ...
- 6825: The Political Power of England and France Increased Greatly in the 17th Century
- ... England still in conflict. These groups all tried to push and pull parliament in their favor -- which ultimately made it so that nothing could be done. These conflicts even came to the point of bloody civil wars and suffering on both sides of the fighting. Parliament ultimately decided to stop these wars by creating religious Act of Toleration (1689) for the non-conformist protestants. For many people, this caused more unity ...
- 6826: Arthur Kornberg
- ... Caribbean. Officials at the National Institute of Health in Maryland, aware of his brief clinical study on the subject of jaundice, arranged for Kornbergs transfer to the institute. He spent the remainder of World War II carrying out research in the nutrition laboratory. In 1943, Kornberg married Sylvy Levy; he enjoyed not only companionship with Sylvy but also laboratory collaboration with a gifted wife. Her suggestions and advice would play ...
- 6827: Ancient Egypt
- ... brick houses and few furniture, they paid half their harvest to government tax. They were also require to work on palaces, temples, clear irrigation ducts, and serve in the army. Slave were mostly descendants of war prisoners some lived like free peasant and others llived in the houses of nobles serving them. The ancient Egyptian society really respected women, women had the right to buy or sell land. There weren't ...
- 6828: Auguste Rodin
- ... would let him continue to work and live out his life in the Hotel. His old adversaries in the press opposed this and it was not until 1916 amid the turmoil of the First World War that the museum was established. Rodin died on November 17th 1917 at the hotel where he worked, just one year after the establishment of his museum.
- 6829: The Holocaust
- ... opinion, not the last either. To those of you who say that there is no way this is going to happen again, I laugh at you. It is a fact that there is a religous war going on right now in the middle east, and has been going on for as long as people can remember. For those who say that what is going on in the middle east is not ...
- 6830: Did the Expansion of the Aztec Empire Lead to Their Downfall?
- ... recall Cortes, who defeated a force sent to retrieve him. (Gibson, Charles) Unlike previous Aztec rulers, who were great warriors, Montezuma was a weak and indecisive man, more interested in sorcery and philosophy than in war. (Leon-Portilla, Miguel) He was at first unsure whether the Spaniards were gods or men, and when a study of omens and prophecies convinced him that they were gods he concluded that he was doomed ...
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