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- 3141: The Great Depression
- ... destroyed everything on the farms which included their homes and barns. This is best por- trayed in Steinbeck's description of how the tractors destroyed everything in its way. "The iron guard bit into the house corner, crumbled the wall, and wrenched the little house from its foundation, crushed like a bug (50). "In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their father and of their grandfathers" (Steinbeck 111). This describes how after many ...
- 3142: The Chicago Fire of 1871
- ... first to reach the scene. They were soon joined by the "Little Giant" engine company. A neighbor ran to a drug store to turn on an alarm but the alarm failed to work. The court house watchman had given wrong directions but later tried to correct his mistake, but the alarm operator was eating dinner so she refused to correct the mistake. The fire engines went about 1 mile south of ... lake, odd things were saved, such examples are: a rooster, a fire place mantle, a pack of playing cards, a stovepipe, an empty box, a feather duster, and a wooden Indian. Shortly before the court house burned down 100 prisoners were released. Most of the prisoners began looting. When the Water Works was hit by the fire, many of the firemen went home. Finally around 11P.M. the wind died down ...
- 3143: Educatio During The Victorian
- ... was available to all children in England. The emphasis on modernizing endowments, making scholarships competitive, providing a non-classical course of study as an alternative to the traditional one that emphasized Greek and Latin, establishing house systems, stressing school spirit, emphasizing muscular Christianity and games like football and cricket as means of improving character, became a model for other Victorian public schools. The whole education process was designed to mold students ... was available to all children in England. The emphasis on modernizing endowments, making scholarships competitive, providing a non-classical course of study as an alternative to the traditional one that emphasized Greek and Latin, establishing house systems, stressing school spirit, emphasizing muscular Christianity and games like football and cricket as means of improving character, became a model for other Victorian public schools. The whole education process was designed to
- 3144: Easy As Pi Maybe Not...
- ... not have been so lucky, but he never considered it luck it was all math. Two groups apparently had been following Max at this point a group of Hasidic Jews and a stock market trading house. They were both also seeking this 216-digit number for their own reasons. The Jews needed it because in their language each letter is given a corresponding number. This 216-digit number is supposedly Gods real name, spelled out in its numerical format, or so the Torah says. The trading house knew this 216-digit number could predict the rise and fall of stock market values. One group was after salvation while the other was after money. Max could care less about either one, as he ...
- 3145: Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands
- ... to support his habits: drinking, gambling and sex. His love for her was more of a passionate sort rather than a romantic one and even during their wedding night he gambled heavily and visited a house of prostitution. When Flor mentions that she sometimes thinks they could be a couple like any other, Vadinho replies Sure, and wed sit on the sidewalk and gossip, Id play backgammon while you ... the night sky. He constantly kisses her on the forehead as a father would to a child. His first steps after the honeymoon were to fire Flors long-employed maid and to reorganize the house with a place for everything and everything in its place! The Doctor got everything he wanted from Flor. She became the dutiful, loving wife and companion he wanted on the outside, while on the inside ...
- 3146: Civil War
- ... Transportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to desert Lee's forces. Lee surrendered to Grant on April, 1865 and they met in a house in the tiny village of Appomattox Courthouse. Before the real business, bothof them were talking about other things rather than the Civil War and they seemed like good friends. Lee signed the paper at that house. Johnston surrendered to Sherman under similar terms at Durham, North Carolina. The great war was over, but that didn't mean any good because millions of free slaves and white people found themselves without any ...
- 3147: Kim Kim
- ... Everything except letters and notebooks he threw over an unstable cliff. The documents he hid on his person. In a few days Kim and the lama set out again. At last they came to the house of the old woman who had befriended them twice before. When she saw Kim's emaciated condition, she put him to bed, where he slept many days. Before he went to sleep, he asked that ... his wanderings, though he is really a member of the secret service. In the end he finds the river he is looking or, it ends up being a brook attached to an old woman's house. 3. Mahbub Ali- A horse trader who is really a member of the secret service. He is largely responsible for Kim's becoming a member of the British secret service. 4. Colonel Creighton- The director ...
- 3148: The Three Great Compromises
- ... that they did not even come to the meeting. Finally after all the debating and each state getting their say, they "compromised" on a plan where they would have two governmental houses, one being the House of Representatives and the second being the Senate, with the Senate being the stronger of the two houses. The House of Representatives was based on each state's population, that is the more people in the state the more representatives that state would get. The Senate said that regardless of the state's population each ...
- 3149: "The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto
- ... 4's to look like a pile of debris. A bomb was mailed to United Airlines president Percy Wood, who lived in Lake forest. One bomb was packaged inside the novel "Ice Brothers" by Arbor House, whose symbol is a tree leaf. False return addresses have included such places as Ravenswood and Forest Glen Road and from such people as Benjamin Isaac Wood. THE 9-DIGIT CODE To authenticate his written ... enter the structure and retrieve it. Agents feared it could have been set off if it was picked up. Once items were removed from the cabin, they were moved to a work area outside the house where they were X-rayed on a portable machine much like the ones used at airports. After the cabin was deemed safe, the of the physical evidence was collected, bagged, and tagged. This slow and ...
- 3150: Women's Roles in the Revolution
- ... where the couple had grown up, the Smiths were much better known than the Adamses. John was a rising lawyere, but he and Abigail were able to marry only after he had inherited a small house and a few acres of land across teh road from his farmer brother. With the help of a black slave woman who was borrowed from John's mother, Abigail set up house. From the beginning, Abigail and John got on well. Their views on rights and tyranny were never far apart. Abigail had a shrewd awaremess of the political and social ideas of her time. many letters ...
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