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- 7261: The Olive Branch
- ... well as present day Christians believe that the Flood was a marking point for a new covenant between God and themselves. However, the myths that have accumulated from each culture provide great colorful characters and death defying heros against the angst of the gods. Often times the bible is compared to the Gilgamesh Epic, which is the oldest fictional novel known to man. The Babylonian epic tells a similar story of ...
- 7262: Mining In Canada
- ... mining process. Example: when an oil spill has occurred in the ocean, the problem caused to the environment is very big, because gallons of oil is spilling over the ocean's surface, resulting in the death of many ocean organisms, and in the pollution of the ocean. (See Appendix B) In this article, it shows how much an oil spill can endanger the environment. To prevent this problem, special attention is ...
- 7263: Tiberius
- ... Rome under the power of Lucius Aelius Sejanus (died AD31), the prefect of the Praetorian Guard. Finally realizing that Sejanus was trying to seize the imperial power, Tiberius had him and his supporters put to death in AD31. The emperor continued to live at Capreae until AD37. He died on March 16, AD37, at Misenum, near Naples; some ancient historians believed he was smothered by the prefect of the Praetorian Guard ...
- 7264: Holocaust Museum
- ... concentration camps. 4. The doctors at the concentration camps would perform grotesque operations, and dissections on the bodies of Jews. And I remember one Jew, who had a severely disfigured skeleton, he was stabbed to death, and then the doctors proceeded to strip the flesh off of his bones, and preserve his skeleton for future study. Personal Response 1. The exhibit really helped me to put all of the pieces that ...
- 7265: Vikings In Control
- ... to a hall they called Valhalla. Thor was the god of weather and was important because weather had a great affect on the lives of people. Frey was the god of agriculture and love. When death occurred, people were buried with possessions they had and may need it the afterworld. A poor man would be buried with just a knife, but a rich man would be buried with luxury items. A ...
- 7266: Imperialism
- ... His output was vast. Still, Picasso's art filled the world, and he left permanent marks on every discipline he entered. His work expanded, one image breeding new clusters of others, right up to his death. He was the artist with whom virtually every other artist had to reckon, and there was scarcely a 20th century movement that he didn't inspire, contribute to or--in the case of Cubism, which ...
- 7267: Neoplatonism
- ... other pagan Neoplatonists. It was only with Heimonius and his son Ammonius that a definite succession can be traced at Alexandra. Olympiodorus, the Platonic commentator, was the last pagan head of the school. After his death it passed into Christian hands under the Aristotlean commentators Elias and David. The school's last head, Stephanus, moved to and became head of an academy in Constantinople in 610. In 641 the Arabs captured ...
- 7268: United Nations
- ... The government blocked the borders and several confrontations broke out resulting in thousands of deaths. In 1996 the UN cleared the borders and the refugees started coming back in to their country, not fearing death anymore. This was another victory for the UN peacekeeping force. 7. To help the UN with its responsibilities I think that every country should be involved in the UN Security Council and be made to ...
- 7269: The Fall Of The Roman Empire
- ... documented. Pompey used this element to his advantage, stirring up the crowd to the point that people were afraid to speak out against him since if they did, they were liable to be beaten to death by his supporters or murdered by his army. The culmination of these events and trends was the breakdown of the Republic and the regression into a dictatorship, a system that survived until the fall of ...
- 7270: Alexander The Great
- ... mountain to mountain, from city to city, from the steppes of Russia to the valley of Indus, as his troops turned sullen and mutinous. In time he brought them back to Babylon, which he saw death and the break up of his subjugated but unreconstructed empire.
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