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- 5961: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles
- ... louvre, a hole in the timber roof for that purpose. Chaucer has cited a common saying that excessive smoke (along with nagging wives) is one of the main reasons to drive a man from his house, so one may assume that this method of heating and lighting rooms was universally despised, and the innovation of mural fireplaces equally hailed. As for convenience, especially with tower keeps, which commonly had but a ...
- 5962: To What Extent was Britain on the Verge of a Civil War in 1914?
- ... suffragettes, came in 1913. By this time the suffragettes were out of control and showing blatant disregard for the law. They committed several acts of arson, including a fire bomb attack on Lloyd George’s house, for which Mrs Pankhurst was given a three year jail sentence. In the 1913 Derby, Emily Davidson died for her cause as she threw herself in front of the king’s horse. In this year ...
- 5963: The Holocaust
- ... on the trains. People often went for days without food or water on these trains. The German troops would tell the people who were on the trains that men would labor and women would keep house or work with the men while their children would go to school. These lies were repeated to each one of the millions who died. When a train would arrive at Auschwitz, loudspeakers blared, ordering people ...
- 5964: The Spanish Inquisition
- ... 1800’s, as Spain completed its task of “purifying the nation”. By this point they were in a huge lack of education and were not industrially adequate to enter the 20th century along with power-house industrial neighbors such as England. Reminisce of the Inquisition lasted into the early 20th century where suspected descendents of Jews were punished.. It was not till 1992, five-hundred years after the expulsion of the ...
- 5965: The Hopewell
- ... than likely the people operated under matrilineal kinship. They lived in long-houses dominated by the oldest female member of the family and when a couple was married, the husband would move into the wives’ house and become a part of their social unit. These new husbands had very little if any say in household matters. The children “belonged” to or were affiliated with their mothers family, the males owing allegiance ...
- 5966: The Baroque Era
- ... a larger segment of society instead of just the aristocracy. The English first settled the city of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Jamestown was the first colony in America. It is also the sight of the House of Burgess, which was a model for other legislatures throughout the colonies. If the English had not started the colonization when and where they did, we might not be speaking the same language as we ...
- 5967: The Titanic - History of a Disaster
- ... Her Name Titanic. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988. PP 20-21. Marcus, Geoffrey. The Maiden Voyage. New York: The Viking Press, 1969. PP 35-128. Lord, Walter. A Night To Remember. Mattituck: American House, 1955. PP 152-170. Ward, Kaari, ed. Great Disasters. Pleasantville: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1989. PP 180-87.
- 5968: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
- ... media, which in the past decade has grown more prolific and independent than its counterparts in much of South-East Asia. An example of its role was early in 1996, when a mob attacked the house of Saphin Kaew-Ngaarn-Prasert in north-east Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province. The researcher had angered nationalists with a book questioning the legend surrounding a nineteenth century Thai heroine, Thao Suranaree. The domestic media ...
- 5969: The Treatment of Prisoners by Nazis
- ... III. Inside the camp resembled jail. Auschwitz was in the general shape of a rectangle. The larger portion of the camp was designated for sleeping area. In all there were about 26 small rooms to house all the prisoners. Also in the camp was an eating area such as a cafeteria. It was a room equivalent to the size of four bunkers. The number of Jewish people in the camps was ...
- 5970: The Marshall Plan
- ... every night. But many lawmakers regarded foreign aid as "Operation Rathole," and viewed the rescue plan slowly taking shape at the State Department as a "socialist blueprint." Said Charles Halleck, the Republican leader in the House: "I've been outon the hustings, and I know, the people don't like it." Clearly, appealing to good will was not going to suffice. It was necessary, then, to scare the voters and their ...
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