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- 9281: Three Periods of European History Where Attitudes Towards Women's Education Changed
- ... While Sir Josiah Child says in "A New Discourse of Trade", that it is often important for a family that a women learns her husbands trade, so she may help the family continue in his death. The attitudes of education for women has evolved in general towards more and more equality for women, as we can see by the standards today. However, as we can see this issue was a long ...
- 9282: Roots of Russian Revolution
- ... weaknesses of Russia's various organizations. For the first few decades of the 1800's, Russia's outlook was brighter under Alexander I, who was relatively liberal. He became more reactionary however, and following his death, a group of young army officers tried to overturn the Czardom. This was called the Decembrist Revolt. The next czar, Nicholas, was a die hard authoritarian. The Administrative system continued to decay regardless of his ...
- 9283: The Radical Stage of The French Revolution (1792-1793)
- ... stay of execution for the fallen King (in the name of constitutional Justice), but the moderate forces were overwhelmed by the people's support for the radicals and the fate of Louis remained unchanged. His death signified the beginning of a time when nationalism and radicalism would dominate the revolution. On March 10th, the Revolutionary Tribunal was created in order to prosecute the enemies of the revolution. Marat became a virtual ...
- 9284: The Dreyfus Affair and Its Cause
- ... his conviction was said "it could make a man sick on sight."(4) His trousers had their stripes ripped off by the mob, his sword was broken in two while the mob spat and shouted: "Death to the Jew!" Alfred Dreyfus was shipped to Devil's Island to suffer the deadly and harsh conditions, to be tortured on an island from which he couldn't escape from anyway. There were still ...
- 9285: The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich
- The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich Feeling that all was lost, Hitler shot himself on April 30, 1945. By orders formally given by him before his death, SS officers immersed Hitler's body in gasoline and burned it in the garden of the Chancellery. Soon after the suicide of Hitler, the German forces surrendered. The war was officially over; however, the world ...
- 9286: The Downfall of the Middle Ages
- ... copies of the Bible in Czech and criticized the corruption of the leading Church officials. When Hus and his works were condemned, riots broke out across Bohemia. Hus' ideas were spread throughout Europe after his death, and that left the Church with even more resistors. These reasons resulted in the inevitable end of the Middle Ages, giving rise to a new age full of new and wonderful things in art and ...
- 9287: The Battle of the Spanish Armada
- ... the wreckage and blood and the screams of wounded men, the winds blew the helpless Spanish ships toward the treacherous sandbanks. When dawn came, the English moved in and the exhausted Spaniards prepared themselves for death. But the English were almost out of ammunition. No attack came. Slowly, the Spaniards forged their way through the shallow waters. At any moment, they could feel the terrible lurch of a ship grounded on ...
- 9288: The Neandertals
- ... more advanced technology. Although not much is known about the Neandertal's culture, anthropologists have some ideas of how they lived their life. It is believed by many that the Neandertals practiced cannibalism for a death ritual. There is evidence of this on the skulls and big bones of Neandertals. There are cut marks and some bones have been broken open and are without marrow. Why would they do this? Maybe ...
- 9289: Lenin and Problems After the October Revolution
- ... that the new government confronted was aggravated by harsh war communism policy. With the gradual increase of Lenin's New Economic Policy came controversy and some emergency relief. Ultimately at the time of Lenin's death the Soviet Union was still plagued, though perhaps not as severely, by economic and social distress.
- 9290: Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- ... Mosque compound, would undermine what is the third-holiest shrine in Islam after Mecca and Medina. The tunnel excavation dispute is only the latest indication of rising tension between Arabs and Israelis. And the latest death count is 76 ( as of October 1, 1996). In conclusion, this is an issue that deals with politics, uneven distribution of resources, and nationalism, and will take a great effort to come to an agreement ...
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