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- 4721: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-18
- ... Europe. In 1835, Tocqueville met Mary Mortley in England and they were married on October 26. This marriage was not favored by either family because Tocqueville being a French magistrate. But this seemed to never effect the marriage. Mary assisted Tocqueville in his writing and helped publish his works. Tocqueville served in political positions during the different eras of the revolution. After the Second Republic was dead, Tocqueville was elected to ...
- 4722: ASSATA Shakur
- ... very little black facilities available. At some points stopping for restrooms became a hassle. Without access to the segregated facilities, other means had to be compromise The oppression Assata faced as a youth had great effect on her struggle toward liberation. She had racial obstacles to overcome as a child; all that contributed to her build up of anger and distress toward the government. The momentum she had built from her ...
- 4723: American Reconstruction
- ... fell one vote short of the two-thirds required. Johnson was acquitted. By one vote, the tradition of a strong presidency and the separation of powers had remained intact. The remaining of President Johnson does effect the South since Reconstruction can't move on with a moderate President as him. The Radical Republicans had much more success with the Fifteenth Amendment, which became law in 1870. This amendment declared that the ...
- 4724: Atomic Bomb
- ... 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 degrees centigrade. The shock wave and its reverse effect reached speeds close to the speed of sound. A mushroom cloud rose to twenty thousand feet in the air, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. Three days later, on August 9, 1945 the ...
- 4725: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- ... then warned that he did not recognize the secession from the union of the southern states: "...no State, upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the union...resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void...acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary....I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the ...
- 4726: Aphrodite
- ... more naturalistic manner. In the words of Langlotz, the pose of the Aphrodite of Cnidus "reveals a richly variegated movement conditioned by a greater flexibility of the figures' axis in contrast to the concentrated, resilient effect of the Urania" (646). Honour and Fleming point out that this Aphrodite's pose, with "left knee slightly advanced and left foot withdrawn," is a reversal of the pose generally found in nude male statues ...
- 4727: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... had no rights and could not sue and must remain a slave. Lincoln reacted with disgust to the ruling and was spurred into political action, publicly speaking out against it. Overall, this decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War. Lincoln is nominated to be the Republican senator from Illinois and gives the ...
- 4728: Atomic Bomb
- ... what was left of their lives, families and homes. Over the course of the next forty years, this bombing, and the nuclear arms race that followed, then would come to have a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this Earth. The United States of America dropped the atomic bomb in hope of shortening World War Two, saving of thousands of military lives and making the ...
- 4729: Assassination Of JFK
- ... subsequent review of Pepsi-Cola corporate files revealed there was no record of any Pepsi-Cola board meetings in Dallas in 1963. While in Dallas, Nixon made comments to the city's newspapers to the effect that he, unlike President Kennedy, did not need Secret Service protection. Several researchers believe that this taunting might have contributed to the decision not to have the Plexiglass bubble top placed on his limousine on ...
- 4730: Analysis Of Political Situatio
- ... a contradictory statement next by saying Iranian authoratives did hope, however, that resolving the hostage crisis would reduce arms restrictions. If a target country gives into an influence with the hopes of obtaining an intended effect, wouldn't that sanction have been successful? The US hostages were returned because Iran had hoped, "a solution to hostage crisis, would in due course render it easier to obtain arms supplies," (Renwick, 69). The ...
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