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- 2081: Global Warming 2 -
- ... earth called "Global Warming." Starting in the mid-1700s, human activities began to alter the composition of the atmosphere. Vast supplies of charcoal, and later coal and oil, fed the growing fires of the Industrial Revolution. The carbon stored in these fuels was released to the air as carbon dioxide - a gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. Today, for every one of the more than 5.8 billion people on ...
- 2082: The Battle Between the Spanish Armada and the British Fleet in 1588
- ... anchors, and stand out to sea to escape the flames. The 'Invincible' Armada's formation was thus completely broken. At dawn on the 8th about 60 English ships attacked the disorganized Spanish ships off the French port of Gravelines. Three Spanish ships were sunk or driven ashore, and the others were badly battered. During all the battles, the wind direction and speed and waves and currents had a great effect on ...
- 2083: Adam Smith
- ... of wealth with the government interfering as little as possible. Throughout this book, Smith stated his main theory. This theory was later known as economic liberalism. Smith believed in the term laissez-faire, which is French for hands off. Smith believed that there should not be any government intervention with the people except for only three cases. The only circumstances where the government should be able to intervene are with defense ...
- 2084: Adam Smith 2
- ... and associated with many of the leading Continental philosophers of the physiocratic school, which based its political and economic doctrines on the supremacy of natural law, wealth, and order. He was specially influenced by the French philosophers Francois Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own. The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human ...
- 2085: Alfred Thayer Mahan
- ... single most important naval mission of the twentieth century, was completely disregarded by Mahan. Both Kennedy and Crowl find fault in the applicability of Mahan's theory in the age of steam and the Industrial Revolution. Kennedy claimed that the all important sea power perscribed by Mahan for victory was waning in the light of land power. He argued that railways, mines and vast industries made sea power rather ineffective as ...
- 2086: Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
- ... Alois Hitler. Alois was quite a tyrant, but he usually ignored Adolf. In 1892 Adolf's father earned a promotion and the family was forced to move to Passau. Here Hitler enjoyed playing Germans and French or cowboys and Indians. At about this time, in 1984 Klara gave birth to another boy whom she named Edmund. Hitler was no longer the baby but his father had been transferred to Linz the ...
- 2087: Artist: Turner: Outline
- ... emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies began. b) Turner wanted to have a marriage between art and industry and painted Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive. 3. The changing style of Turner. a) Turners works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded as highly as his earlier works. b) Many ...
- 2088: A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explination
- ... of the blacks in Harlem. For a people who have been oppressed for centuries, the denial of yet another dream is not taken lightly. With the final line, Hughes seems to be hinting at a revolution, alluding to the idea that blacks in Harlem are like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Here, the mood of "A Dream Deferred" has increased in intensity. The possible fates listed previously are unpleasant ...
- 2089: Abraham Lincoln
- ... a single man. Generations yet unborn will rise up and call him blessed." --Reverend James Reed, 1865 "...In all America, there was, perhaps, not one man who less deserved to be the victim of this revolution, than he who has just fallen." --The London Times, 1865 "Abraham Lincoln...was at home and welcome with the humblest, and had a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded ...
- 2090: The Baroque Era
- ... sermon against mass convictions, resulting in the rescue of the hundred people that were awaiting trial. In 1706 Benjamin Franklin was born. Franklin invented bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, and helped to shape the American Revolution. In 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach died. His fame rested heavily on his playing and improvisation. Historically, his death concluded the Baroque era.
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