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- 2871: The Telescope
- ... have to use the naked eye when looking at distant objects that could have been easily seen by the telescope. The telescope was one of the main instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It revealed unsuspected phenomena in the heaves and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional astronomy, the cosmos, and those who favored the naked eye. It ...
- 2872: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... of the first things he did was to sign a truce that ended the Korean War. During his first term, Eisenhower also made the decision of refusing to send U.S. support to aid the French in Vietnam, thus easing international tensions. He still kept up the policy of containment, even though he was trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union. This would become especially important for him when both ...
- 2873: Muckrakers
- ... Cosmopolitan, Hampton's, and Pearson's commented on the innumerable accidents of the railroad and the fact of churches taking money from tenements that were a disgrace to the city in articles like "The Railroad Revolution" and "Where Did You Get It, Gentlemen?" These as well as many others were titled muckrakers (Hofstadter 193). Although the muckraking era is considered to span from about 1902 to 1912, some muckraking magazines and ...
- 2874: Hamilton And Jefferson Debates
- ... a national bank that would be funded by the federal government and private investors, and that would also issue money and handle all government funds. During the XYZ affair, the Federalists prefered to fight the French than to pay or negotiate, as the Republican position confirmed. The Federalists also agreed with and helped pass such laws as the Naturalization Act, the Alien Act, and the Sedition Act. Jefferson, as a Republican ...
- 2875: Panama Canal
- ... was the basic law for the construction of the Panama Canal. The law declared that the United States had the right to build a canal on the land over the isthmus of Panama. Then a revolution broke out in Panama, and independence from Colombia was declared in 1903. The United States wanted the land including the isthmus Panama to build a canal. The United States had trouble getting this land because ...
- 2876: World War 2
- ... the world. Hitler started his conquest for land in 1938 when he annexed Austria. He followed this by threatening Czechoslovakia. When Hitler increased his demands on the Czechs, war seemed almost certain. The British and French had meetings with Hitler and Mussoluni but they could not stop them from putting demands on other country's. Soon after the meetings Hitler captured Czechoslovakia and seized a former German port. He moved on ...
- 2877: Early America
- ... had lots of experiences for the new writers to tell. Some of the new writers included John Smith; he only spent two in a half years in America. Jonathan Edward's, he thought that a revolution would create a world of literature. He was the first major writer to be educated and lived his whole life in the New World. When he was eleven he wrote science essays on insects. Then ...
- 2878: Events Of The Civil Rights Mov
- ... 1990. Hornsby and Straub. African American Chronology. Volume I: 1492-1972. Gale Research International Limited., Detroit, Michigan, 1994. The Editors of Ebony. Ebony Pictorial History of Black America. Volume III: Civil Rights Movement to Black Revolution. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago, Illinios, 1974. Television Program "The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History." Narr. ?. Writ. and Prod.?. History Channel, March 11, 2000. Internet Lythgoe, Dennis. Desert News, February 26, 1997. Address: http ...
- 2879: Middle Ages Economy
- ... eliminate outside competition. Attempts by the nobility and mercantile elite to legislate the wages and services of the peasantry and to protect their market monopolies led to violent revolts that were often ruthlessly suppressed. The French Jaquerie of 1358 was followed by the Florentine Ciompi revolt in 1378 and the English peasants revolt in 1381. Similar popular uprisings occurred in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. Still, the ruling classes managed ...
- 2880: Of Mice and Men: George and Lennie's Lonesomeness
- ... with more than one partner. The Discouragement of their dream is in the opening chapter when George and Lennie's conversation starts out it revels that they had to run away from their last job" (French 89). It is well known that they are afraid of what might happen if their plan doesn't come through for them. The two are afraid of losing the dream that they had been dwelling ...
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