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- 1091: Alcoholics Anonymous
- ... Meeting, started in 1969, has been held biennially since 1972. Its locations alternate between New York and overseas. It has met in London, England; Helsinki, Finland; San Juan del Rio, Mexico; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Munich, Germany and Cartagena, Colombia. These meetings and their locations have gone to show the global impact A.A. has achieved. The Akron A.A. team of Dr. Bob, Bill, and Anne has never been equaled in ...
- 1092: Atomic Bomb
- ... weapon ultimately dropped on Hiroshima, nicknamed Little Boy, produced a yield of approximately twenty thousand tons of TNT- roughly seven times greater than all of the bombs dropped by all the Allies on all of Germany in 1942. It produced an airburst approximately one thousand feet above the city, creating a fireball with a diameter greater than the length of three football fields. The temperature at ground zero reached five thousand ...
- 1093: Auschwitz-concentration Camp
- Auschwitz-concentration camp Auschwitz, located in Poland, was Nazi Germany's largest and most terrible concentration camp. It was established by order of Himmler on April 27, 1940. At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet prisoners of ...
- 1094: Overview Of Belgium
- Belgium is located upon northwest Europe from which is bounded on the north by the Netherlands and the North Sea, on the east by Germany and Luxembourg, and on the south and southwest by France.1 Due to this location, Belgium is also known as “the Crossroads of Europe” because it promotes trade and prosperity.2 Following the end of ...
- 1095: Origins Of Communism
- ... 1524-1525 threw a radical Protestant, Thomas Münzer, into the public eye. He preached of Heaven on earth; a world without private property or power. Münzer’s realization was short lived though. Anabaptist communities in Germany drew attention away from Münzer. By the mid-1600’s, communism resurfaced in England, spawning the creation of The Law of Freedom in a Platform by Gerrand Winstanley, a preindustrial communist. He said, “True freedom ...
- 1096: Utopian Communes
- ... chastity, poverty, simplicity, hard work, purity, and brotherly love. 1 Although they sought redemption, the main driving force behind the Amana was that they sought religious freedom. Unhappy with their religious rights and flixability in Germany, the Amanas left ifn 1842, settling near Buffalo, New York. In 1855, the “community of True Inspiration,” as they were called, moved west, forming their first village along the Iowa River. The Amana set up ...
- 1097: The Inverted Pyramid And The E
- ... previous story on the front page was a story with a very modern lead that states, “A proud and elated Cabinet surrounded the President this afternoon and discussed plans for waging a successful war against Germany.” In this lead, we see the who-what-when-where-why model followed almost perfectly. The only thing missing is the “where”, which is almost self-explanatory given the subjects and the action that are ...
- 1098: The Atomic Bomb
- ... and Edward Teller consulted Einstein to address a letter to Franklin Roosevelt. Motivated by the letter, in 1939 Roosevelt commanded an American effort to obtain atomic weaponry before the Germans. With an increasing threat from Germany, President Roosevelt needed to take an aggressive stance. He was in a position of nuclear threat. F.D.R needed to do something, and do something very fast. This is why the president called to ...
- 1099: Main Causes Of The Great Depre
- ... During World War I the U.S. government lent its European allies $7 billion, and then another $3.3 billion by 192030. By the Dawes Plan of 1924 the U.S. started lending to Axis Germany. American foreign lending continued in the 1920's climbing to $900 million in 1924, and $1.25 billion in 1927 and 192831. Of these funds, more than 90% were used by the European allies to ...
- 1100: King Of The Seas
- ... warfare. Americas improvement has impacted naval history in a way that no other invention ever has!” (Davis,135) Many times in United States history the major nations of the world, such as England, France and Germany, have ignored the United States in political matters but this invention and the ironclad to ironclad battle changed a large percentage of their attitudes toward the United States. It made America become feared and respected ...
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