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- 7171: Transcendentalism
- ... but if he is in a good mood, bad weather such as rain might seem cheerful to him. Since nature is an individual's mirror, Aristotle's "Know thyself!" is equivalent to "study nature!" At death, individual souls return to the Oversoul and join with it. For Emerson, the concept of a river was highly symbolic and he carried it through much of his works. "All rivers flow into the ocean ...
- 7172: The Spanish American War
- ... didn't follow up with futher attacks. At 5:40 in the AM General Dewy gave order to fire on the Spanish army. In just a few hours the Spanish army was defeated taking a death tool of a leats 160 and 210 wounded. The U.S. army on the other hand had no casualties and only 2 officers and 6 men wounded none fatal. No U.S. ships were badly ...
- 7173: Thanksgiving
- ... an abandoned Wampanoag village and moved right in. In 1618, a massive epidemic of an unknown disease left by English explorers swept across Wampanoag country and decimated many of the villages. This epidemic caused the death of ten to thirty percent of the total population and all but a few of the 2,000 people of the village of Patuxet. When the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, they landed at Patuxet with ...
- 7174: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... Panama to inspect the work of the canal and thus become the first sitting President to leave American soil. The 1904 election was very important to Roosevelt. His ascent to the Presidency was through the death of McKinley, and he desperately wanted to win the prize of his own accord. His Democratic counterpart was New York jurist Alton Parker. Parker and the Democrats attacked the Republicans saying that they were shaking ...
- 7175: Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
- ... cook and nurse, and later became a spy and guide for Union raids into Maryland and Virginia. After the war she managed a home in Auburn, New York, for indigent and elderly blacks until her death on March 10th, 1913; she was buried with full military honors. Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15th, 1820, she was an American pioneer of women's rights, and was the ...
- 7176: Saddam Hussein: The U.S Portrayal Of Evil Encarnate
- ... Saddam cafes, and, of course, dozens of Saddam billboards, statues, mosaic walls, and monster outdoor portraits." Any opposition to his political views was irraticated. For example, membership in the opposition party ShiaDawa was punishable by death. One of its leaders, IyatollahBaqr al-Sadr, was executed, along with members of his family, by orders from Saddam Hussein. There is significant evidence indicating that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran during their 8 ...
- 7177: Public Hangings
- Capital punishment seemed to have been regenerated from the beginning of mankind, where beheading was considered an honorable method of meeting death, whereas hanging carried with it a definite stigma. The era of public hanging was emotionally satisfying even though the surroundings was emotionally tense. In contrast to private hangings where they were fewer observers, less theatrical ...
- 7178: Persian Gulf War-the Feat Of The Western Countries
- ... in the nearby trench. I had breakfast and afterwards something indescribable happened. Two enemy planes came toward us and began firing at us, in turn, with missiles, machine guns, and rockets. I was almost killed. Death was a yard away from me. The missiles, machine guns and rockets didn't let up. One of the rockets hit and pierced our shelter, which was penetrated by shrapnel. Over and over we said ...
- 7179: Normandy
- ... beach locations on the Cotentin Peninsula. Dwight David Eisenhower by Nicodemus David Hufford (1915- ). Oil on canvas, 38" x 30", 1973. Hufford painted Dwight Eisenhowers portrait for the Army some four years after the death of the former chief of staff and 34th president of the United States. Thus it was necessary for him to work from photographic likenesses. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. "Full victory - nothing else ...
- 7180: Native Americans
- ... white settlers was described as "the most fearful Indian massacre in history. Four weeks after the rampage began, 2,000 Indian men, women and children surrendered, 392 prisoners were quickly tried and 307 sentenced to death. Sibley favored execution at once. But Bishop Whipple of Minnesota went to Washington to plead for clemency. After a long appraisal President Lincoln commuted most of the sentences except for the proven rapists and murderers ...
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