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- 2951: Louis Sullivan An American Arc
- ... most magnificent ornaments seen in 19th and 20th century, which adorned his buildings. On September 3, 1856, the future architect was born Louis Henri Sullivan in Boston, Massachusetts. His background was paternally Irish and maternally French. Louis led a sheltered childhood as result of the civil war, and spent a good deal of time on his grandparents’ farm outside of the city. It is here that Sullivan developed an intense concept ...
- 2952: Persian Gulf War-the Feat Of T
- ... beginning with five weeks of intensive air attacks and ending with a ground assault. Drawing on its 1,800 planes, land- and carrier-based, the United States flew the greatest number of sorties. The British, French, and Saudis made up most of the rest. Besides the tremendous air power, the coalition deployed technologically advanced weapon systems, such as the unmanned Tomahawk cruise missile, advanced infrared targeting that illuminated Iraqi tanks buried ...
- 2953: Liberalism And Anticlericalism
- ... was gradually phased out of the public education system, which they had previously dominated, thus losing a strong potential power on the minds of the forthcoming generation. The situation in Italy in many respect reflects French reasons for the decline in church popularity, yet here the whole Italian unification factor gives an added dimension to the situation. The liberal government set up after the risorgimento had good reason to hold anti ...
- 2954: Lewis And Clark Discoveries
- ... on their long journey. I believe that the journey they made would not have been as successful without the help of the Indian tribes they met along the way. Also without the help of the French Canadian translator's wife, Sacajewa, the journey would have been a failure. She was a Shoshone Indian and helped the party as an interpreter and peacemaker, she also proved instrumental in negotiating for horses and ...
- 2955: Latin Literature In History
- ... a rough, slapstick, rowdy, crowd oriented style, Terence’s comedy was more refined and domestic. It was Terence’s works that most immediately affected the comedic posterity, forming a basis for much humor found in French and British plays of the 1600’s and for some modern humor as well. The writings of Cicero are the most crucial pieces of documentation of that period (80BC-43BC) available. They take the form ...
- 2956: Labor Relations
- ... customers or merchants which they supplied." (35) These associations were formed to protect their craft, rather than as a collective bargaining union. In the mid 19th Century, America was in the middle of the industrial revolution. We were becoming an urban industrial society. Immigration was becoming a great source of labor supply. These large manufacturing enterprises, exploiting workers without regards to human cost, were ripe for National Union Organization. Jerry Borenstein ...
- 2957: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... statements encouraging acts of violence in Turkey and elsewhere." Kurds are a large minority in Turkey, and some among them assert that they have been so brutally repressed by Ankara that their only alternative is revolution. In February and March, Med-TV carried a series of interviews with supporters of rebel guerrillas who have been fighting a separatist war in eastern Turkey for more than a decade. The rebel leader, Abdullah ...
- 2958: Kubrick Lives
- Kubrick Lives The theory of authorship as applied to film directors is a subject that is argued extensively throughout the film world. The auteur theory was first introduced in the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema. Andrew Sarris who suggested that there are a group of filmmakers who fit into this category brought the theory to America. It states that in order for a director to ...
- 2959: Atom And Qi
- ... material quality of the universe as viewed by modern physicists. Since the notion of spirituality is abstract and un-measurable, it is often categorized in the rank of superstition and religion. Therefore, during the Cultural Revolution in 1966, qigong was labeled as old idea, old culture, old custom and old habits, that qigong practitioners were oppressed that no one dare to practice qigong in public (Lu, 2). The reacceptance of qigong ...
- 2960: Korean War 3
- ... with the conduct of the war. The Korean hostilities prompted the United States to strengthen its military commitment to NATO. From the start of the Korean fighting, the Truman administration escalated military assistance to the French in the Vietnam War and then sent aid and advisers to the fledgling Republic of South Vietnam.
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