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- 4671: Australia And The Depression
- ... the redemption of £5 million worth of Treasury bills that were to fall, due in mid 1931. The legislation to permit the sale of gold overseas (to cover these costs) was defeated in the Upper House. Scullin was forced to choose between pension cuts or loan default. To influence the Scullin Government's decision, the banks added further pressure with an ultimatum: [the Board] cannot undertake to continue to accept further ...
- 4672: Augusto Pinochet
- ... Chilean government has declined to prosecute him or even remove him from his seat in the senate. Spain is an outsider interfering in the state affairs of another country. They are acting based upon The House of Lords decision, which allowed Spain to assert universal jurisdiction to prosecute violators of the Convention Against Torture. But this Convention is only applicable to actions committed after December 1988, and since Pinochet was only ...
- 4673: Assassination Of Malcolm X
- ... acceptance was almost a complete opposite of what he was before the trip. He returned to America as an even more hated enemy of the Nation of Islam. A few days after his return, his house in Queens, NY was firebombed, luckily his family and himself were not hurt. On February 21, 1965, he scheduled to make a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem New York. As Malcolm entered the ...
- 4674: Armenian Genocide
- ... their valuables for a fraction of their original cost out of desperation. Officially Armenian homes were "safe guarded" by the government, but once the deportees left town their homes were looted and anything on the house made of wood would be used in fires to heat the homes of Turks during the winter. When the day of the departure came police like figures called gendarmes gathered the deportees in the town ...
- 4675: Apple Computers
- ... and database applications all in one, is introduced and will soon become the world's best selling software. In February of 1985 Jobs and Wozniak receive National Technology Medal from President Reagan at the White House. The ImageWriter II, HD-20 hard disk and Apple Personal Modem were also introduced this year. In January of 1987 Apple introduced a new desktop communications products including the AppleShare file server software and AppleTalk ...
- 4676: American Revolution 2
- ... threats, there for the tax cannot be put into action. Thomas Hutchison is Chief Justice of massachusettes. Privatlhe is against the tax but publicly he does not want to show this. Opposition colonists destroy his house and his possessions, but let him live. Now that the colonists are getting very upset and angry they decide to take action, the first step to being real revolutionaries. They boycott the Stamp Act. This ...
- 4677: American Hawaii
- ... of white people, Hawaii drafted its first constitution in 1840. The constitution called for an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a supreme court. The legislature consisted of a council of chiefs and an elected house of representatives. In 1842, the Hawaiian islands were seen as an independent government. Sugar production was Hawaii s largest buissiness. Tons of sugar was grown in Hawaii. Many of the Hawaiians worked on the sugar ...
- 4678: America At The Turn Of The Cen
- ... a perfect example for the political scandals of our country. In January of 1997 it was announced to the country that President Clinton allegedly had an affair with one of the interns at the White House. Over the period of the next few months President Clinton not only denied the whole thing, then made another statement that he actually did have an affair with the intern Monica Lewinsky. America is the ...
- 4679: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... make it but they proved the skeptics wrong. The book consisted of many career facts and focused on mainly the major leagues. Macht, Norman L. Jim Abbott, Major League Pitcher. Ed. Kathy Campbell. Philadelphia: Chlesea House Publishers, 1994. The book was about living the life of a physically handicapped person. I used the book to tell about Jim s strength and as basic reference to overcoming his handicap. Making it to ...
- 4680: The Call Of The Wild
- ... his food as fast as possible so as not to have it stolen. At about this point in the book, we see Buck start to go through a metamorphosis of sorts. He transforms from a house dog to a more primitive, savage version of his former self. It was as if hundreds of years of knowledge, learned by his ancestors, were dug up and brought out. Buck proceeded to lose all ...
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