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- 601: Auschwitz 2
- ... two Nazi organizations-the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria ... to liberate the camp on January 27, 1945, they found about 7600 survivors abandoned there. More than 58,000 prisoners had already been evacuated by the Nazis and sent on a final death march to Germany. In 1946 Poland founded a museum at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in remembrance of its victims. By 1994, about 22 million visitors-700,000 annually-had passed through the iron gates that ...
- 602: Atomic Bomb 7
- ... the United States was involved in one of the worst wars ever recorded, World War Two. Hitler who lead the German army died later in the war was nicknamed the "Devil" himself (Bolt 5). After Germany was finally defeated, Japan continued on fighting. As a result on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor a fleet of Japanese fighter pilots raided the island destroying dozens of ships and killing military personnel in ... with Russia causing a nuclear catastrophic disaster. This is why on July 1946; demonstrations in time square took place to stop America from using atomic power on other countries in the future. After defeating both Germany and Japan the Russian and the United States both knew that the war was not over. Russia wanted to expand on all of it German territories causing great tensions between the Russians and the United ...
- 603: Atomic Bomb 2
- ... began complaining about the drastic security measures that were being taken. Things such as the guard dogs and the FBI talking to the families of the scientists bothered them greatly. Also the scientists feared that Germany was ahead of them in creating the bomb. Not helping the situation, Oppenheimer had an affair with a Communist woman named Jean who he had known for quite some time. The army learned of this ... whole project along with their work. Groves knew this and that is why it was kept a secret. Oppenheimer was told to end this relationship, immediately. In November of 1944, Groves received a message that Germany was not even close and never was close to creating the atomic bomb. Groves did not tell a sole about this news, for fear that the scientists would quit working on the bomb because they ...
- 604: Johann Sabastian Bach
- One of the most profoundly inspired and masterful composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Thuringia - until recently part of East Germany. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of string-playing; another relation, the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the young boy on the ... a professional organist, and continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court ...
- 605: Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
- ... potential to harm the economies of some developing nations. C. The last and possible the most important argument for an international biosafety protocol is in the name of ignorance and caution III. The United States, Germany, Japan, and Australia are the only countries opposed to the biosafety protocol. IV. The need for a change in the world of agriculture is undeniable. As the world moves closer to the 21st century, research ... the Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends, sums up the sentiment on the release of transgenic organisms by stating, "Every introduction is a hit-or-miss ecological roulette" (qtd. in Weintraub 160). The United States, Germany, Japan, and Australia are the only countries opposed to the biosafety protocol. They maintain that voluntary guidelines are all that is needed to regulate international biotechnology. The opponents of a biosafety protocol also argue that ...
- 606: The Genetics of Violence
- ... to crime is circumstantial and a "racist pseudoscience". Behind the tensions that seemed to dominate the conference was the horrors of past eugenics: the early twentieth-century campaign in the United States, and later in Germany, to purify the human gene pool by sterilizing the "feeble-minded." The leaders of the eugenics movement in the United States, although they acted out of sincere desire to build a better society, could do little when their ideas took root in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s and soon became the Holocaust; this is where much genetic tension and fear stem from. One of the researchers, David Wasserman, a soft-spoken legal scholar, was shouting at the top ...
- 607: Ideas Of Automobiles
- ... and production was almost halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business. The United States time of prosperity had ended. During the early 1940s, as Hitler rose to power in Germany, our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When Hitler invaded France and started the war, the United States responded quickly. The United States started producing many different pieces of war equipment. The auto ... United States dropped to an all-time low. Ford was forced to shut down plants and lay off thousands of employees. Ford found hope in the market overseas. Ford opened two new plants, one in Germany, and one in England. In 1932, Ford built the Model Y, a car designed specifically for Europe. The United States entered WWII in 1941, and was the same year, that Ford started making utility vehicles ...
- 608: Albania
- ... occupation of Albania. Zog refused to accept money in the exchange for countenancing a full Italian takeover and colonization of Albania, and on April 7,1939, Mussolini s troops invaded Albania . In 1941, after Nazi Germany defeated Greece and Yugoslavia, the regions of Camria and Kosovo were joined to Albania, finally, creating an ethnically united Albania state. However, in 1943, following Italy s surrender, Germany withdrew from Albania, and Kosovo was reincorporated into the Serbian part of Yugoslavia. Now that there was a void in Albania Leadership, who would take charge? Who would secure the countries culture? The answer would ...
- 609: Herbal Extracts and Hormones
- ... ingredient in willow bark. However, people are using willow bark instead of aspirin because it does not cause the stomach to bleed as aspirin does. Ginkgo is being sold as a leading prescription drug in Germany and most countries in Europe. Takagi, pgs. 96-101 This herb is growing in usage in this country as more people age. It has been used in Asia for countless generations. There is a growing ... D.B. "The Scientific Validation of herbal medicine" Leni, Utah. Cormorant Books 1986 Takagi, K. et al "The Pharmacology of Medicinal Herbs in East Asia." Tokyo, Nanzando 1982 Uphof, J. C "Dictionary of Economic Plants." Germany, Verlan 1968 Weiner, M.A. "Earth medicine" New York Ballentine Books 1990
- 610: Adolf Hitler
- ... Adolf actually had a pretty normal childhood. On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian city of Branau. His father, Alois, worked as customs official, checking goods traded between Austria and Germany. Alois was promoted which resulted in a transfer. First, to Passau and the to Linz. Adolf and the rest of the family did not follow him to Linz, but stayed in Passau. (Rubenstein; pgs 3 ... and indians. (Rubenstein; pgs 8-9) During all of this, Adolf's conflict with his father was growing. One main reason was Alois's energetic supporting of the Austrian monarch and Adolf's admiration of Germany. Adolf's rebellious nature also contributed to this problem. As a result of their arguments, Adolf was sometimes beaten by his father. These problems ended when his father, Alois Hitler, collapsed and died on January ...
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