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- 7351: Early American Settlements
- ... considered easy even by modern day standards. Colonists were only required to work 6 hours a day, while the rest was reserved for personal leisure time. This from a colony that was practically starving to death. This is one of the few examples in which the laws in early colonial America were actually not harsh enough. But this was all about to change. By 1611 things were not good in Jamestown ...
- 7352: Euripides! Master! How Well Yo
- ... Agamemnon and Oedipus. I was prepared to bristle at Euripides' treatment of women. Even in his own time, he was accused of misogyny by, among others, Aristophanes. In fact, legend has it that at his death he was torn apart by dogs or women. I found, instead, surprising sensitivity. Medea laments the husband's possession fo the wife's body, the impossibility of divorce by a woman, the double standard of ...
- 7353: Early 1900s In N. America
- ... of 2 hours, 24 min and 24 seconds when he ran the Boston Marathon. Jan 22/1901 Queen Victoria died at the age of 63 years. The Queens reign stretched across the globe. With her death came modernization. In the early 1900's horses were being used extensivley for all transportating duties and some manual labor jobs. A few years later the bicycle hit Canada and presented the Canadians with a ...
- 7354: Dickinson; A Biography
- ... femininity and love for Judge Lord. Emily Dickinson chose not to publish many of her poems for fear she would be misunderstood. During her final years she neer left her house or garden. Since her death of Bright's disease, Dickinson has become known as one of the greatest and most powerful poets who ever lived.
- 7355: D-day
- ... British, Canadians and Poles in the north and the Americans and Lerclerc's French coming from Alenηon in the south, part of two German armies were trapped in the Falaise-Chambois pocket (the "Corridor of Death" at Montormel). This brought the battle of Normandy to a close, at Tournai-sur-Dives on 21st August 1944. The Allies had pulled off their first victory on the continent. Three days later, they crossed ...
- 7356: Druids
- ... believed in an afterlife when you die. They believed once you are dead you are transported to the Otherworld by the god Bile. That your life continued in this location mush as it had before death. The Druids believed that the soul of a person was immortal (Spence 91). Druids, past and present celebrate a series of fire-festivals, on the first of each of four months, dancing around a bonfire ...
- 7357: Dresden, A City Lost
- ... secret report dated, August 02, 1944, the rudimentary principles of the maneuver, "Thunderclap was that an "
attack must be delivered in such density that it imposes as nearly as possible a hundred percent risk of death to the individual in the area to which it is applied." ("Was the Bombing of Dresden Justifiable," 7) Collectively, between 35,000 to 135,000 human beings are estimated to have lost their lives. The ...
- 7358: Discovery Of The New World
- ... olives, and sugarcane. Even though, both countries profited form the exchange, there were some major consequences of it. The most drastic consequence was that the Europeans transmitted smallpox to the Indians. This lead to the death of about 80-90% of them. In addition, the Indians gave the Europeans syphilis. This lead to a loss of hair and in turn lead to Europeans wearing wigs. The above are the political and ...
- 7359: Diocletian
- ... the martyr, and went with him. So then it fell out that the unbelieving judge sat unfed in the town until evening, without any attendance, fasting against his will. Lo! Then Alban would hasten to death, and went to the stream where he could not go over the bridge, and looked up to heaven, praying to the Savior and the stream thereupon dried up before him, and made a broad way ...
- 7360: Detroit Riots
- ... to be off the streets between 9 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. and no alcoholic beverages were to be sold or possessed which was not followed the rioters. At 12:25 the first death was reported. A 45 year-old white male life was claimed when he was shot by a white store owner who claimed the man was looting his store. This was only the beginning for the ...
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