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- 2181: John Harlan
- ... the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a chief counsel to the New York State Crime Commission. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan ...
- 2182: The Dreyfus Affair and Its Cause
- ... asked by his supervisor to look into Dreyfus's motives. Picquart found many flaws and peculiar things,in his research and in March 1896 another letter which they called the "petit bleu," was intercepted by French intelligence. This puzzled Picquart, an investigation was now to be ordered on Esterhazv, who's name was found on it. Esterhazv, a captain of regiment, had been constantly applying for General Staff Intelligence and he ...
- 2183: Josef Stalin
- ... party newspaper, the Pravda (Truth). At Lenin's request he wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. However, before this article appeared in 1914, Stalin was sent to Siberia. Following the Russian Revolution of February 1917, Stalin returned to Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg), where he resumed the editorship of Pravda. In 1922 Stalin became secretary general. After Lenin's death, he joined in a triumvirate with ...
- 2184: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... of yielding the farmers profits the wheat pools made the farmers poor. In Alberta, economic depression was the worst with the combination of prices, debts, and interest. It got so bad that the Social Credit Revolution of 1935 was formed. Partly Canadian collapse in prices that followed Wall Street's Black Thursday was the high cost of mechanization, exorbitant interest rates and boom-bust grain prices. 16 Employers were particular about ...
- 2185: World War II
- ... against the Jews. Very few people approved of this, making it difficult for the U.S. not to act. Another major event was the fall of France. Germany, with its blitzkrieg tactics, had torn the French army to pieces, and had taken control of Paris. These events, amongst others, were definite signs that the U.S. may have no choice but to go to war. In conclusion, it is important to ...
- 2186: The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich
- ... in the next two decades. The government banned the Nazi party after the revolt. There were also many reasons for lack of Nazi activity. The Allies had loosened their grip on the German economy. The French had left the Ruhr leaving Germany's industries intact, and the United States pumped in millions of dollars to stabilize Germany's economy. Most Germans were happy. In 1925, the Nazis picked up where they ...
- 2187: Ancient Egypt
- ... some migrated to Nile River Valley which is a vast land surrounding the Nile River. There in this land abundant with life, there were plenty of food and water for these people. During the Neolithic Revolution (10,000BC to 3,500BC) man discovered the art of agriculture, this skill arrived in Egypt approximately 7,000BC. Humans were finally able to use the rich silt brought by the yearly flooding of the ...
- 2188: The Neandertals
- ... some sort of religion. Scientists had always thought that the technology of the Neandertals was "primitive". However, they have changed their minds. "You need a lot of brains for flint knapping," Jacques Pelegrin of the French Center for Archaeological Research. Recent excavations show that Neandertal tools required a high level of craftsmanship and mental ability. During most of their existence, Neandertals have what is called Mousterian technology- flaked tools (i.e ...
- 2189: Lewis Latimer
- ... patent forms properly at the U.S. Patent Office, protecting the company from infringements of his inventions; Latimer was also in charge of the company library, collecting information from around the world, translating data in French and German to protect the company from European challenges. He became Edison's patent investigator and expert witness in cases against persons trying to benefit from Edison's inventions without legal permission. Edison encouraged Latimer ...
- 2190: Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
- ... HERBERT SPENCER. The most extreme reflection of nineteenth-century individualism is to be found in the encyclopedic system of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were of a long English and French nonconformists, dissenters and rebels, and Spencer traces in his Autobiography his conspicuous disregard of political, religious, and social authority to the tradition of independence and dissent so long cherished by his family. Spencer s education ...
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