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- 7771: The French Revolution
- ... this carnage, and were the aftereffects really worth having a revolution. About this question Ive convinced myself of one thing, if I had asked these questions to a Frenchman during the French Revolution, Id most likely end up like the noble at the beginning of the paragraph, a head in a basket. The French Revolution began in France in 1784. It was basically a political upheaval, but eventually this ...
- 7772: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... these fields. In between these busy enterprises, he found time to ranch in the West, hunt on several continents, raise a family of six rambunctious children, read a remarkable number of books (often one a day), write more than thirty-five himself, and develop an extraordinary network of friends and contacts, which he maintained mostly by mail, writing well over 150,000 letters. Theodore Roosevelt Presidential achievements are impressive. In foreign ...
- 7773: Thomas Jefferson
- ... born to a prominent family of Virginia tobacco growers. Plantation life is based largely around the work of slaves, so Jefferson was surrounded by them from the time of his birth in 1743 until the day he died. One of the harshest criticisms of Jefferson comes from the fact that, while he vehemently opposed slavery, was indeed a slave owner himself. As historian Douglas L. Wilson points out in his Atlantic ...
- 7774: Bolshevik Power In Russia
- ... to the noble class ( ). Serge and Sedova's last topic of the Bolshevik platform states that this platform had a tremendous impact on the proletarian class. This topic called for the reduction of the working day to eight hours and to initiate a program that resembles what we know as the United States Social Security system (50). The Bolshevik leadership was controlled by V. I. Lenin, in the article The Founding ...
- 7775: The Archaeological Sites In the Aegean
- ... began further excavations. A Brief Look at Ancient Greece, was another source we used. It says that in the late 1800s Scholars thought Greek history could only be traced back to 776BC ( the first day of the Olympics.) In this we also found that "To understand ancient Greece, you have to understand the regional perspective, to the east are Egypt, Syria, Palestine, the lands of Asia Minor, and the Mesopotamia ...
- 7776: Did Napoleon Preserve Or Pervert The Gains Of The Revolution
- ... and gave rise to both German and Italian nationalism that eventually unified the numerous minor kingdoms, states, and principalities into the respective nations of Germany and Italy. After Brumaire (9-10 Nov. 1799) --the coup detat which first set Napoleon on the path to becoming the supreme executive of a French empireNapoleon declared, The Revolution is made fast on the principles on which it began; the Revolution is finished ...
- 7777: Cicero
- ... 58, Cicero was in danger, and in March fled Rome. In 57, thanks to the activity of Pompey and particularly the tribune Milo, he was recalled on August 4. Cicero landed at Brundisium on that day and was acclaimed all along his route to Rome, where he arrived a month later. Pompey renewed his compact with Caesar and Crassus at Luca in April 56. Cicero then agreed, under pressure from Pompey ...
- 7778: Description Dominance of Greco-Roman Culture
- ... and the ideal. Poets and playwrights were also included. The Great Dionysia celebrated the best tragedies through competition, another expression of arete. According to Sullivan, the tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are still to this day "unsurpassed." All based on the pursuit of excellence, and carried on the tides of military conquest, Greek art and philosophy spread to the Mediterranean world. Like the Greeks, the Romans came to dominate the Mediterranean ...
- 7779: Global Warming
- ... that further research and development should be pursued. I think that electric cars should be exposed into the consumer market. Also, we as a nation should enforce environmental laws on third world country industries. Present day gasoline cars, specifically SUV's, should be restricted to 4 cylinders. Mothermobiles and power-hungry men do not need fuel injected, turbo V-12 300 horsepower engines to go to the mall. This would increase ...
- 7780: Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
- ... subtraction from the troops of Barbarossa as well as a cause of delay in its execution. This troop subtraction was brought to alarming levels when the British, through diplomatic intrigue, managed to instigate a coup d'etat in Yugoslavia which overthrew the government and canceled out the agreement the country had with the Germans for unresisted submission. With every indication that British bombers and troops would be within range of Romania ...
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