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- 2901: Communism
- ... Stalin's "zero tolerance" attitude towards everyone, he was able to seize control. Once in control, Stalin's 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 ...
- 2902: Saddam, Iraq, And The Gulf War
- ... troops out of the desert and put them near the coast. They were taken completely by surprise when the huge mass of the Allied assault penetrated northward into Iraq. At the same time, farther west, French and American troops sneaked across southern and central Iraq. They were trapped. While the other troops were invading Iraq, a combined force of Americans, Saudis, Egyptians, and Syrians launched an assault into southern Kuwait. Hundreds ...
- 2903: First Amendment
- ... basement that Jacob Abrams has rented in New York City. The circulars were distributed by throwing them of the buildings and others were distributed secretly. One of the articles on the pamphlets said: The Russian Revolution cries: Workers of the World! Awake! Rise! Put down your enemy and mine! Yes! Friends, there is only one enemy of the workers of the world and that is CAPITALISM. Another article urged all to ...
- 2904: Henry Ford
- By: Moe Transportation has become a major necessity in todays society. Without the industrial revolution introducing the automobile, most people would find it very hard and frustrating to get around. Henry Ford had become a big part of starting this faster and safer transportation era. His brilliant thoughts and ideas ...
- 2905: Houdini: Master of Escape
- ... realizes it's not his time. At the age of fifteen he moves with his family to New York. That is when he acquires his name, Harry Houdini. He dubs himself Houdini after the famous French magician Robert Houdin. In one of his small shows in New York he spills acid on the audience member's dress. Little did he know how much that would change his life. He offer to ...
- 2906: Group Polarization And Competi
- ... was bombed in 1994, killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The alleged perpetrators were a group of extreme, right wing, "constitutionalists" who were apparently trying to turn frustration with the federal government into open revolution. I do not think these examples are aberrations or flukes, but are, instead, indicative of structural defects in our political system. If we are not aware of the dangers of extremism and competition, we may ...
- 2907: Difference Between Sephardic A
- ... by the Alliance Israelite Universelle have had such great impact on the education of the Jews of the then-decaying Ottoman Empire, that even today, a considerable part of older generation Turkish Jews think of French as their primary means of communication. In Israel the farming communities founded in the late 1800's with the funding of rich European Jewish families as a part of the project to re-settle Palestine ...
- 2908: Sir William Wallace
- ... no political power. Wallace's Father was involved in a revolt called Turnberry Band when William was 14 years old and was sent to live with his uncle Argile. His Uncle taught William Latin and French and how to be a swordsmen.When William's father returned from the revolt at Turnberry Band William was 17 years old. Fighting between rival families and rival towns were heating up. Civil War was ...
- 2909: Separation And Survival In
- ... also not unique: of the fourteen slaves on the trip to New Orleans, two others were kidnaped free men, wrested from their families. (The closing of the African slave trade in 1808, as the plantation revolution was taking hold in the Mississippi Delta area, created a voracious appetite for slaves in the deep South. The contemporary decline of the staple-crop plantation system in the Chesapeake area made slaves a profitable ...
- 2910: Marco Polo
- ... man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom when the Venetians and Genoese made peace in ...
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