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- 2111: Gold And Its Uses.
- ... in order to obtain its gold, but a discovery in the Urals in 1774 triggered the modern industry. By the 1840s Russia was the leading producer, until eclipsed by the California gold rush. After the Revolution, Stalin encouraged mining and the Soviet Union was the second biggest supplier until overtaken by the United States in 1991. Overall Soviet production peaked at 285 tonnes in 1989, before falling to about 250 tonnes ...
- 2112: Biographical Fact Sheet On James Fenimore Cooper
- ... book featuring Bumppo, The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826, quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying Cooper's popularity in the U.S. and in Europe. Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the massacre of the colonial garrison at Fort William Henry and a fictional kidnapping of two pioneer sisters. Cooper knew few Indians, so he drew on ...
- 2113: Immigrants In 17th Century United States
- ... Germans" came to America as Prussians, Bavarians, Hessians, Rhinelanders, Pomeranians, and Westphalians. They arrived at different times and for many different reasons. Some, particularly the so-called Forty-Eighters-the refugees from the failed democratic revolution of 1848-hungered for democracy they had failed to win in Germany. Others, Particularly Jew, Pietists, and Anabaptist groups like the Amish and the Mennonites, coveted religious freedom. And they came not only to America ...
- 2114: The Catholic Church and The Middle Ages
- ... of popery in the liturgical and institutional life of Anglicanism and pressed for a further reformation. Because of the Anglican union of throne and altar, this agitation had direct political consequences, climaxing in the English Revolution and the execution of King Charles I in 1649. Just as many other denominations that would form such as the Quakers and Nonconformists, Puritanism found its most complete expression, both politically and theologically, in North ...
- 2115: Biography Of Emily Bronte
- ... During this period, she wrote poetry and short stories to fill her time. In 1842, she attended school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. There they studied music and foreign language. Emily also wrote her French essays at this time. Charlotte and Emily were described as literary geniuses. All the family was reunited at home, in 1845. In the course of time, the Brontes gave up hope for a school of ...
- 2116: The Titanic
- ... Titanic was in many ways a historical icon. She served in the minds of many people and is today continuing. Since the discovery in 1912, lead by Dr. Robert D. Ballard in conjunction with the French team IFREMER, people around the world has wanted Titanic information. The Maiden Voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic was a historical event. The ship was sailing through heartship, grief, and misery. The ship was ...
- 2117: Rise of Superpowers After WWII
- ... and France. These treaties, however, were designed more to create security for the West, as opposed to keeping all three signatories from harm. At the same time, Stalin was attempting to polarise both the Anglo-French, and the Axis powers against each other. The important result of this was the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, which partitioned Poland, and allowed Hitler to start the war. Another side-effect of his policy ...
- 2118: Biography Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... support of the Southern slave owners. Hawthorne's posthumously published works include the unfinished novels Septimius Felton, The Dolliver Romance, Dr. Grimshawe's Secret, and The Ancestral Footsteps and his American Notebooks, English Notebooks, and French and Italian Notebooks. With modern psychological insight Hawthorne probed the secret motivations in human behavior and the guilt and anxiety that he believed resulted from all sins against humanity, especially those of pride. In his ...
- 2119: Biogrophy Of Dostoevsky
- ... became heavily involved in a literary group called the Petrashevsky Circle, otherwise known as the Durov Circle. This group met in private to discuss outlawed literature and express their views on Christianity. They also read French socialist theories that were prohibited in Russia. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested for his involvement in this group. He was first sentenced to prison where he served several years, then he was moved to a ...
- 2120: Christopher Marlowe
- ... transformed into a society dominated by the arts. It was a time of achievements in the arts and sciences as well as a period when people were deeply concerned with religious issues. Renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth . Scholars reacted against what they saw as the dark ages of medieval Europe and revived the learning of ancient Greece and Rome. Like painting and sculpture, literature expressed the attitudes of the ...
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