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- 861: The Vietnam War
- ... a beginning nor an end, for the purpose of this paper it can be best examined through the decade the United States was involved: February 6, 1965 - August 30, 1975. During World War Two the French had been a major ally to the United States in the defeat of Adolph Hitler and the Axis Powers. France occupied and claimed the small coastline country of Vietnam in Indochina. In this region there ... willing to accept Communism in return for what they had been fighting for over 2000 years: self rule. In 1950 the United States, owing a debt of gratitude towards France, sent several advisors to aid French control in Vietnam. Over the next decade and a half, the United States would send an entire Army and Navy to aid the French in maintaining control in South Vietnam, which had separated from the Communist North Vietnam by treaty in 1954. In early August of 1964 a small Vietcong (term used to identify South Vietnamese in favor ...
- 862: WHAT MADE THE AMERICANS EXPAND
- ... witnessed a transfer of the industrial center of gravity from the harbors to the waterfalls, from the commerce and navigation to manufacturers (Turner 13). "Water power became the sites of factory towns, and the industrial revolution which, in the time of the embargo, began to transfer industries from the household to the factory, was rapidly carried on"(Turner 14). A new class began to develop. Farmers moved into towns, and their ... With the already existing routes being unreliable and expensive, "there was a growing demand for canals
"(Turner 32). The Erie and Champlain canals were the result of these demands. De Witt Clinton saw the economic revolution, which the Erie Canal would bring. He presented to the legislature the reason that made it practical and the financial plan that made it possible. He showed them the vision of the Hudson River, "not ... the interior, carrying slavery with it"(Turner 45). The invention of the cotton gin came at a very fitting time for the cotton industry: "Already the inventions of Arkwright, Hargreaves, and Cartwright had worked a revolution in the textile industries of England, by means of the spinning-jenny, the power-loom, and the factory system, furnishing machinery for the manufacture of cotton beyond the world's supply"(Turner 45). This ...
- 863: Sir Robert Laird Borden
- ... and Carleton, and ended up representing Halifax. It was then that the Conservatives began picking up strength in the election while the Liberals began losing it in areas such as Ontario and especially Quebec, where French Canadians considered Prime Minister Laurier to be too "British" in his procedures. Borden's chance at becoming Prime Minister come from Laurier's two biggest problems. The problems being Canada's relationship with Great Britain ... were not forced to enlist in the army and Borden believed that drafting men for military duty had become the only way to keep up the strength of the Canadian forces. It was mainly the French Canadians that were against conscription. Borden wanted conscription to be endorsed by both parties [i.e the Conservatives and Liberals] in a Union Party government and, although Sir Wilfred Laurier opposed it, the majority of ... 1917, with the support of these Liberals, Borden built the Union Government. By this time, Parliament had passed the Military Service Act on condition for conscription, even though farmers and labor unions disagreed with it. French Canadians chose to riot in protest of the event and the planned levy brought forth a serious division between the French and English peaking Canadians. The draft, however, appealed to the majority of voters ...
- 864: European Union
- ... an expansion to sixteen or more (with some former Eastern Bloc countries joining) will be impossible. It is therefore expected, in my view, that the number of working languages will be limited to three (English, French and German) or five (with Italian and Spanish). A little known fact about the European Union's flag is that it has only 12 stars. The stars are not meant to represent countries. Rather, the ... 8. Republic of Ireland 9. United Kingdom 10. Greece 11. Portugal 12. Spain 13. Austria 14. Finland 15. Sweden Official languages of the E.U. · German (88.8 million Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg) · French (63.3 million, in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy) · English (60.0 million, in UK and Republic of Ireland) · Italian (56.4 million, in Italy) · Spanish (39.2 million, in Spain) · Dutch (21.1 million ... for it's citizens. Individual citizens can live and work in the country of their choice, travel freely within the Union since border controls have virtually disappeared. More goods are available to people, for example French goods are as accessible as Belgium goods in Spain; as before the union more French goods might be available due to tariffs. The E.U. has also created a common European citizenship in addition ...
- 865: Billiards
- Billiards The history of billiards begins in the fourteenth century. The game was invented in Europe, but there was a conflict as to what country. The French believed that the English invented the game, but at the same time, the English thought the French did. In the end, a French billiards specialist found evidence that the game originated in France about the fourteenth century. The word "billiard" is derived from two French words, "billiart" and "bille". These two words mean "stick" and "ball". Put ...
- 866: Joan Of Arc
- ... Arc, was born in the village of Domremy, in the Champagne district of northeastern France. She was born on January 6, 1412 and died May 30,1431 at the age of 19. Joan is a French national heroin and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She rescued France from defeat during the "Hundred Years War" against England. In honor of her victory she is often called the Maid of Orleans ... without using any of the five senses. The visions and voices never left her. Finally, four years later she was convinced that God had chosen her to help King Charles VII clear the English from French land. Joan set out to Vancoulers to ask the military commander Robert Baudricourt, for an escort to visit the king. The commander did not take her seriously at first and laughed. Eventually he gave her ... anyway. Joan was given a suit of white armor, a banner, and the command of troops. In April of 1429 Joan and her army set out to rescue Orleans from English control. At first the French commanders hesitated to obey her orders but eventually listened to her. Ten days after arrived in Orleans, April 28-May 8, Joan's forces broke the Siege of Orleans and the English ran off. ...
- 867: Jean Sartre
- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Jean-Paul Sartre is a French philosopher, novelist, play-write, and journalist. He is mostly recognized for his leadership in French Existentialism. After questioning his own ideas he gave up his own ideas, and started to support Marxism. Existentialism was the ideology that he is mostly known and supported for. Jean Paul was born on June 21, 1905 and was schooled at Evole Normale Superieure in Paris, University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the French Institute in Berlin. From 1929 he taught philosophy at some secondary schools. Resulting in the start of World War II, he was drafted into the military. Sometime during 1940-1941 he was captured by ...
- 868: Telepathy
- ... experiment performed to test the telepathic powers of Daniel Thompson. Daniel was tested by a doctor who had been working with him for a while and had discovered that Daniel had mental powers. Dr. Chris French, an experimental psychologist was about to perform the largest telepathy test ever. The aim of this experiment was for Daniel to transmit a number between 1and 50 to an audience. Daniel was locked in an isolation box with a sealed envelope containing the number that he would transmit. Dr. French explained that Daniel was going to transmit a number under 50, containing two digits, both being odd and not the same. Viewers were asked to phone in the first number they thought of. The results were shown later in the program. Only eight numbers satisfied the criteria set by Dr. French: 13;15;17;19;31;35;37;39 and the majority of calls received (34%) voted for the number 37. However the number was 19. But the experiment was a success because Daniel Thompson ...
- 869: The Aviary, the Aquarium, and Eschatology
- ... or perhaps unfortunately--our particular reality game has about reached its natural conclusion, and we are waking up to the fact that mind and matter are not separate. We are undergoing an exciting but stressful revolution in our collective consciousness. This revolution, or global spiritual emergency, will bring upheavals and overloads in our global consciousness that will impact the material Earth for better or worse, and may quickly get out of control. We also will be opening ... will have front row seats. The Manhattan Project relative to the eschaton is a global civilian network of people who will serve as a lightning rod for the cosmic energies coming in during the consciousness revolution. They will be looking to channel these energies into expanded realities. Thus, they will provide a degree of protection for those people who can find their places alongside the network. Outside of the network ...
- 870: Joan Of Arc
- ... Arc, was born in the village of Domremy, in the Champagne district of northeastern France. She was born on January 6, 1412 and died May 30,1431 at the age of 19. Joan is a French national heroin and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She rescued France from defeat during the "Hundred Years War" against England. In honor of her victory she is often called the Maid of Orleans ... without using any of the five senses. The visions and voices never left her. Finally, four years later she was convinced that God had chosen her to help King Charles VII clear the English from French land. Joan set out to Vancoulers to ask the military commander Robert Baudricourt, for an escort to visit the king. The commander did not take her seriously at first and laughed. Eventually he gave her ... anyway. Joan was given a suit of white armor, a banner, and the command of troops. In April of 1429 Joan and her army set out to rescue Orleans from English control. At first the French commanders hesitated to obey her orders but eventually listened to her. Ten days after arrived in Orleans, April 28-May 8, Joan's forces broke the Siege of Orleans and the English ran off. ...
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