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- 1571: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... questioned the values that he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war. After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. During an attack, Paul killed a French soldier. After discovering that this soldier had a family, Paul was deeply shattered and vowed to prevent other such wars. Paul's unit was assigned to guard a supply depot of an abandoned village, but ... from his family and his childhood. With the return to his unit he again felt the presence of belonging. Soldiers had become his family. The mental anguish was again vividly displayed after Paul killed a French soldier; discovering that the soldier had a family, Paul slipped into a deep agony vowing to prevent such wars from again occurring. The depth of the emotions that soldiers experienced created a very believable example ...
- 1572: Thomas Jefferson
- ... most momentous problem of his career. Spain transferred to France its rights to the port of New Orleans, and the stretch of land constituting the province of Louisiana. Louisiana in the strong hands of the French rather than the weak hands of Spain placed an almost overwhelming obstacle in the path of American growth and prosperity. It was essential that America acquire the Louisiana territory, either through peaceful negotiation or by war. When French dictator Napoleon, suddenly offered to sell for $15,000,000 not only the port of New Orleans but the entire fabulous slice of land from the Mississippi to the Rockies, Jefferson was faced with the ...
- 1573: Peter The Great 3
- ... of Sankt Piterburkh, Jean-Baptiste Alexander LeBlond was recruited as the new Architectural General of Russia. He arrived in Sankt Piterburkh in 1716, with his wife and 6-year-old, and a Grand Embassy of French talent. It was because of LeBlond that Peter began immensely loving gardens. He said that his gardens should be better than the king of FranceΉs, and open to all people. he imported gardening books ... over Russia, many of which were hand-planted by Peter himself (4:102-103). Due to the fact that so many people came to Sankt Piterburkh, there became a major cultural clash in Russia. Germans, French, Danish, and Scottish soon became known as the new Russians, making their homes primarily in Sankt Piterburkh. Sankt Piterburkh was RussiaΉs graceful international offspring of the 18th century (4:104). It was at Mon ...
- 1574: Imperialism and India
- ... granted the right to extract land revenue from most of eastern India. Through out this whole period, the company slowly found it's privledges being revoked, until in 1858, the Sepoy Rebellion, or the Indian Revolution, finally brought an end to the rule of the East India Company in India when it was revealed the cause of the rebellion was the use of beef and pork fat to grease rifle cartridges, which are taboo to the Muslims and Hindus. This Revolution brought the rule of the East India Company to an end. The second period of English imperialism started in August of 1858 when the British monarchy assumed direct control of India from the East India ...
- 1575: How Western Imperialism affects China and Japan
- ... Middle Kingdom, shattering and destroying its isolation forever. China would then be involved in four wars during the nineteenth century ; Britain's opium war (1839- 1842), a second war (1856-1860) fought by British and French , the Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895) , and a final western invasion involving British , French , German , Japanese and U.S troops (1899-1900). Chinese Emperors were compelled to sign unequal treaties and were forced to open a number of ports , as well as agree to other territorial concessions . China was ...
- 1576: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... style; many older composers and music pedagogues, not able to accept his new style, called it "fantastic," "hare- brained," "too long, elaborate, incomprehensible, and much too noisy." In fact the style drew much from contemporary French music -- the driving, ethically exalted, "grand style" elements combined with the highly ordered yet flexible structure of sonata form. It seems undeniable then that the Heilingenstadt Testament in which Beethoven came to terms with and ... his skills before death should take him. This quest coincided with and perhaps led to his graduation from the Vienese hi-Classic style to the development of his own unique heroic style, a blend of French and Vienese elements. The "Eroica" can be viewed as a deliverance of both his life and his career from despair and futility. Beethoven recreates himself in a new guise, self-sufficient and heroic. The Testament ...
- 1577: Valley Forge
- ... a baron, began to magically transform threadbare troops into a powerful fighting force. Also in April, the Conway Cabral, a plot to remove George Washington from power, was extinguished permanently. May brought news of the French alliance, and with it the French military and financial support. On June 19, 1778, exactly six months after they first arrived, a new and improved army steamed out of Valley Forge. Eager to fight the British, they had been transformed from ...
- 1578: Mrs Dalloway
- ... suddenly with her: What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a ... suddenly with her: What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a ...
- 1579: ARAB-ISRAELI WARS
- ... than a week; its forces reached the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in about 100 hours, seizing the Gaza Strip and nearly all the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai operations were supplemented by an Anglo-French invasion of Egypt on November 5, giving the allies control of the northern sector of the Suez Canal. The war was halted by a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal ... The General Assembly also established a United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to replace the allied troops on the Egyptian side of the borders in Suez, Sinai, and Gaza. By December 22 the last British and French troops had left Egypt. Israel, however, delayed withdrawal, insisting that it receive security guarantees against further Egyptian attack. After several additional UN resolutions calling for withdrawal and after pressure from the United States, Israel's ...
- 1580: The Problems With Acid Rain
- ... to 4.6. They believed that such a high jump could not be attributed to natural causes. They believed that it was due to air pollution. They were right. Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution in England pollution had been affecting all the trees, soil and rivers in Europe and North America. However until recently the loses of fish was contained to the southern parts of Europe. Because of the ... then a substance is acid. It is this sulfate ion that we are interested in. When the rain causes rivers to overboard onto the banks the river water passes through the soil. Since the industrial revolution in Britain there has been an increasing amount of sulfur in the soil. In the river there is not enough sulfur for the acid to react in great quantities. However in the soil there is ...
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