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- 2861: Laura Secord
- ... soldiers demanded food and stay at the Secord homestead. The Niagara Peninsula became a hostile territory. Lieutenant James FitzGibbon's special force of fifty men and one hundred and fifty Indians were stationed at Fort George, the present-day Niagara-On-The-Lake. Gyrenius Chapin, Captain of some of the men on stay at the Secord's house gave permission to lead a surprise attack on FitzGibbon. One officer paid no ...
- 2862: Lewis And Clark
- ... larger party, a second officer was needed. Lewis chose William Clark to be that officer. Clark was born into a Virginia plantation family in 1770, the youngest of six sons and the youngest brother of George Rogers Clark, the hero of the American Revolution in the West. When he was fourteen, Clark's family moved to a new plantation in Kentucky, and he would spend the rest of his life on ...
- 2863: The United States As A World Power: How Much Longer Will The US Be The Policeman of the World ?
- ... Russia or any other significant event which appears to be a loss for the United Nations. The United Nations was formed on January 1, 1942 when twenty six nations created the United Nations Declaration in Washington DC It can be easily perceived that the United States heads the United Nations. Being the strongest of the four remaining Super-Powers the United States has always been placed above other countries when thinking ...
- 2864: Liberalism and Freedom
- ... The American Historical Review, October 10, 1994, American Historical Review, New York, New York Kotkin, Joel: "What's Wrong With Liberalism"; The American Enterprise, Jan/Feb 1996 Vol. 7 No. 1, The American Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C. Lewis, Edward: A History Of Political Thought, The Macmillan Co., New York, 1937 Mansfield, Harvey: The Spirit of Liberalism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1978
- 2865: Life And Times Of Fredrick Douglas
- ... Bay Douglass cries out for God to save him and grant him freedom and then states, "Is there any God?" On pages 2330 in response to Mr. Wison's suggestion to trust in the Lord, George replies, "Is there a God to trust in? There's a God for you, but is there any for us?" This question reverberates throughout both works. Slaves were looked upon as things or objects to ...
- 2866: Michelangelo
- ... Peter s became the symbol of authority, as well as the model, for domes all over the Western world; the majority of state capitol buildings in the United States, as well as the Capitol in Washington, D.C., are derived from it.
- 2867: Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
- ... Basilica, are among the city's most notable images. His dome for St. Peter's became the symbol of authority as well as the model for domes all over the Western World; the Capital in Washington, D.C. is derived from it. Michelangelo was the last great man of Italy's golden age of art. He worked with many of the leaders of his time, the popes and the rulers of ...
- 2868: The New Federalist Party
- ... threat to world stability there is absolutely no need for our GI's to be scattered all over the world, we will bring them home. The first thing America should get out of is NATO. Washington continues to spend $90 billion a year on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.9 NATO can no longer do us any good because the Cold War is over. The only thing that can happen now ...
- 2869: Mark Twain 2
- ... of the tall story of the frontier and delighted his audience with his storytelling abilities (Lyttle 65). One can see this unique style in his description of the nation s capital: The public buildings of Washington are all fine specimens of architecture, and would add greatly to the embellishment of such a city as New York- but here they are sadly out of place looking like so many palaces in a ...
- 2870: The Government and Environmental Policy
- ... founders of this country wished, the effectiveness of the acts take many years of careful compromising to become significant. REFERENCES 1. Adler, Robert W., et. al. The Clean Water Act 20 Years Later Island Press Washington, D.C. 1993 2. Horton, Tom "The Endangered Species Act: Too tough, too weak, too late." (1992) Audubon Vol. 94 pgs. 68-74
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