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- 2091: The Titanic - History of a Disaster
- ... White Star line can be proud of is the fact that the Titanic was spared a panic. The crew did not try to go on lifeboats ahead of the passengers as they did when the French liner La Bourgogne went down in 1898. Most of the passenger remained calm and the crew did their duty ( Lord, Lives On 127). One of the most intriguing mysteries of the tragedy was surrounding the ...
- 2092: The Discovery of Central American By Columbus
- ... of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1718 and ruled from Colombia. As earl as the 16th century the Spanish were required to relocate and fortify Caribbean port settlements because of repeated attacks by English, French, and Dutch privateers. The English established holdings along the Caribbean shoreline between the Yucatan and Nicaragua that initially were devoted to the cutting of logwood from which dyes were produced, and later to the lumbering ...
- 2093: The Middle East: A Great Deal Of Variation?
- ... fundamentalist challenge is not directed solely at incumbent regimes in the Moslem world. Frequently they widen their range of targets to include westerners within their country. For example, the GIA in Algeria has deliberately targeted French citizens in Algeria since September 1993, because they allege that France is providing covert support and assistance to the Algerian military regime, and is historically responsible for the situation in Algeria. But, as the GIA ...
- 2094: Albert Camus
- Biography of Albert Camus Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a ...
- 2095: Albert Einstein 3
- ... which contains the correct field equations of general relativity. When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was idolised by the popular press. The London Times ran the headline on 7 November 1919:- Revolution in science - New theory of the Universe - Newtonian ideas overthrown. In 1920 Einstein's lectures in Berlin were disrupted by demonstrations which, although officially denied, were almost certainly anti-Jewish. Certainly there were strong feelings ...
- 2096: Russia's Five Year Plans
- ... Stalins zero tolerance attitude towards everyone, he was able to seize control. Once in control, Stalins first major achievements were the Five Year Plans for industry. Russia had not yet had their industrial revolution and were far behind the other powers of the world. The first Five Year Plan worked as far as industrial output was concerned, but it was at much cost to the people of Russia. Once ...
- 2097: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... the Communist Youth League. At the age of nine he decided he wanted to be a writer, and before he was eighteen he decided that he was going to write a novel about the Russian Revolution. He said that during his childhood he "bore this social tension - on one hand, they used to tell me everything at home, and on the other, they used to work our minds at school. And ...
- 2098: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... Six Major Events 1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston. 1874-75 he began work on his great invention. Bells attorney had applied for a patent on February 14, 1876 1880 Bell received the French government s Volta price for the telephone. 1898 Bell succeeded his father-in-law as president of the National Geographic Society. He died at his estate on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia on August ...
- 2099: Global Warming 3 --
- ... effects of the huge overuse of these items of luxury plus all the other unmentioned items and activities plays havoc on our atmosphere. We didn't worry about this 100 years ago, and the industrial revolution is the culprit for a large part of this. The reason for this is a little thing called Carbon dioxide. Where is the C02 coming from? Fossil fuel burning (75%), land clearing & burning (25%) , as ...
- 2100: Alfred Nobel
- ... his family moved to St. Petersburg in Russia. Since his father was an influential inventor and industrialist the family moved from country to country. Alfred gained the fluency in 5 different languages, Swedish, Russian, English, French, and German, but was always proud of his Swedish Background. In his teens his father sent him to learn chemistry in France. He gained interest in explosive nitroglycerin. And studied until he founded the first ...
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