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- 491: Stanley And Livingstone And Th
- ... effort to stop the slave trade in Africa by encouraging more profitable commerce. Unfortunately, these actions resulted in Britain completely controlling the area of Africa north of Zanzibar. France controlled parts of West Africa and Germany controlled the land on the East Coast of Africa between South Africa and Zanzibar. At the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) Africa was divided up among Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, and Belgium. These decisions were made without any input from the African tribes and countries and were met with much resistance but only Ethiopia was able to defeat Italy. After World War ...
- 492: Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
- ... 26, Julia had been banished for adultery. The death of both of Augustus' grandsons within two years led him to adopt Tiberius as his son and heir. Tiberius then went into active service in northern Germany against the Marcomanni. Tiberius succeeded in securing the northern border with the dangerous German tribes. Tiberius made two more marches into the heart of Germany. On his return to Rome he was awarded a triumph, the highest official tribute that was given to honor a victorious warrior. Augustus died in AD 14 and Tuberius assumed sole power of the whole ...
- 493: Auschwitz
- ... hard to stay positive in a situation like this. You are on your way to the most famous and most deadly Nazi concentration camp. Its name is Auschwitz, and you are a Jew in Nazi Germany during World War II. Your future is beginning to look bleak. The thought of ever leaving this place is the only hope that you and those around you really have, and the chance of that ... January 27, 1945, the Soviet army marched into Auschwitz to find about 7600 survivors there. More than 58,000 prisoners had already been evacuated by the Nazis and sent on a final death march into Germany (Sanford, 3). After liberation, prisoners usually attempted to find any surviving family members, which often proved difficult and disappointing. Having left everything behind, many prisoners had lost their homes in bombings, and had no place ...
- 494: George S. Patton
- ... one of the greatest U.S. generals of World War II. This war started in 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Hitler. Then, Italy, under the leadership of Benito el duce Mussolini, unites with Germany. The United States wouldnt enter this war until Japan declared war by destroying their naval base on the Pacific Ocean called Pearl Harbor. It lasted 6 years and ended in1945 with the triumph of ... real fighter! Patton left everyone amazed. With this, Patton demonstrated his passion while in a fight and how tough he was. Soon after Patton returned from Mexico, the United States entered World War I against Germany and Austria- Hungary on 1914. General Pershing was assigned as the head of the Expeditionary Forces and again decided to bring with him George Patton but this time he was Captain George Patton. During this ...
- 495: Gay Rights
- ... said the German trade balance was up 11.3 billion marks in October compared to the previous month. The current account declined by 3.5 billion marks in October. The value of goods imported by Germany in October last year was up 3.1 percent at 74.9 billion marks, the statistics office said. Imports from euro zone countries declined by 0.3 percent with goods arriving from Italy down by 14 percent. Due to higher crude oil prices, imports from Russia and Norway -- Germany's most important providers of crude oil -- were also up by 30 and 42.8 percent respectively, the statistics office said. ($1=1.899 Mark) Word Count: 239
- 496: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... papyri before Heinrich Schliemann; he is considered the father of both Aegean archaeology and Greek studies (Duchκne 81). Heinrich was born on January 6th, 1822 to Ernst and Luise Schliemann in Neu Buckow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany ("Heinrich Schliemann: Heros and Mythos"). Luise would die in childbirth in1831 at the age of forty, humiliated by her husband's affair with the family's servant girl. The liaison, combined with allegations of stolen ... but a few poor words in Schliemann's report. He would become the unsung hero of the digs at Hissarlik; Schliemann's work would later earn him a doctorate from the University of Rostock in Germany (Burg 73). Schliemann had returned to America earlier that year, and committed a fabulously untrue series of frauds in order to obtain a divorce from his wife there (Burg 74). Schliemann arrived in New York ...
- 497: Rasputin And His Influence On
- ... he was in essence a symbol for hatred".They even began to call him the "Mad Monk". Since the Tsarina and Rasputin were so close, Russian people began to think that they were spies for Germany during the war (especially since the Tsarina was native to Germany). Finally, he affected the Russian Revolution by rising to power. When he rose to power he thought he could do anything (which also happened to be true). He was in essence "above the law". Anything ...
- 498: Karl Gauss: Biography
- Karl Gauss: Biography Karl Gauss lived from 1777 to 1855. He was a German mathematician, physician, and astronomer. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on April 30th, 1777. His family was poor and uneducated. His father was a gardener and a merchant's assistant. At a young age, Gauss taught himself how to read and count, and it is ... was invited to work in Leningrad, was made a member of the Royal Society in London, and was invited membership to the Russian and French Academies of Sciences. However, he remained in his hometown in Germany until his death in 1855. Acomplishments During his Teen years, Karl Gauss developed many mathematical theories and proofs, but these would not be recognized for decades because of his lack of publicity and publication experience ...
- 499: Austria
- ... Germans or Denmark and could never quite fighting and would never get along. Germans army seemed to have a lot of power and could push whomever they wanted around near them. Prussia had dominated Northern Germany, but they didn't let Austria get into role they wanted to play in the German affairs. At the same time, there was disturbance and unsettled business that led to new International complications and a lot of change. To conclude my paper, I think there was a lot of confusion between the certain countries. Germany and Austria and Prussia got into it a lot but never really figured anything out. There was a lot of disagreeing and yelling between each other. Vienna had a lot of problems themselves in the ...
- 500: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- ... to active duty. For a week, war seemed likely. Then, Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered all Soviet offensive missiles removed. The President then lifted the quarantine. In 1961, Russia threatened to give Communist East Germany control over the West's air and land supply routes to Berlin. The threat was part of a Russian effort to end the combined American, British, French, and Russian control of Berlin, begun when World ... de Gaulle refused to commit France to the NATO nuclear force. He preferred an independent role for his country. Kennedy made a 10-day tour of Europe in the summer of 1963. He visited West Germany, Italy, Ireland, and Great Britain. Southeast Asia continued to be a trouble spot. Kennedy ordered U.S. military advisers to the area in 1961 and 1962 when the Communists threatened South Vietnam and Thailand. Kennedy ...
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