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- 4291: Mien Kempf: The Great Canadian Edition
- ... decrease, saving the environment. Also, we will be able to sell our technologies for higher profit. With our dominating military in place we will be able to develop as a society, save our resources, and control our economic situation. We can put the money we save into environmental reclamation, and into education. We will need intelligent people to develop new technologies, and to properly lead this dominant power without destroying it ...
- 4292: The Slave Trade
- ... motivation was economic. All of this set up a race between the European countries to get a piece of the action. France gave the trade a try, but by the eighteenth century Britain had full control of the West African trade. The British won something called the Assiento, which was the exclusive licensee to ship African slaves to Spanish controlled territories in America. Seeing the value in this the English started ...
- 4293: The Persian Wars
- ... All the Greek cities in Asia Minor joined in the revolt but the Athenians lost interest and returned home. In 493 B.C., after the city of Miletus was captured, the Persian Empire established its control over Ionia once again. The Ionian Revolt lasted for six years, but their fight for freedom and democracy had failed. King Darius of Persia swore to discipline Ionias allies. In 492 B.C. King ...
- 4294: Edgar Allan Poe 3
- ... 1848. In 1849 Poe proposed to Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, but she was having difficulty saying yes ; probably because her late husband s will penalized her for remarrying. If she remarried, she stood to lose control of her late husband s estate and would only receive one-fourth of the income it generated. The next stage of Poe's life was his enrollment at the University of Charlottesville. John Allan sent ...
- 4295: The Japanese and Manchuria
- The Japanese and Manchuria The Japanese, fearful of losing their influence and control of Manchuria, began plotting. On Sept. 18, 1931, a staged explosion in Shenyang (Mukden) in southern Manchuria provided the pretext for the Kwantung Army to move against the large city and occupy it. It came ...
- 4296: Eliot Ness
- ... from inside leaks. I ticked off the general qualities I desired: single, no older than thirty, both the mental and physical stamina to work long hours and the courage and ability to use fist or gun and special investigative techniques. I needed a good telephone man, one who could tap a wire with speed and precision. I needed men who were excellent drivers, for much of our success would depend upon ...
- 4297: Holocaust Revisited
- ... and certainly long before the result of the conditions of the war itself. Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf in 1923 while serving a sentence in a Landsberg prison. Moving ahead several years after Hitler took control of Germany, he and his men discuss those who should be included in the final solution. In the course of the final solution, the Jews should be brought under appropriate direction in a suitable manner ...
- 4298: The Mongol Invasion of China
- ... struck terror in their opponents who frequently broke ranks. Genghis Khan would also organize his troops into decimal units and would send hand signals through the fighting to these decimal units. He was able to control his troops during battles very easily. Moreover, his armies were very mobile and could travel far reaching distances at quick paces. If any town that the Mongols encountered resisted, Genghis Khan would ruthlessly lay siege ...
- 4299: Battle of the Bulge
- ... band grab weapons and fight. The main reason we surrendered was because of lack of ammunition. The German general took the captain of one infantry, sat him on the hood of a jeep placed a gun to his head and drove him around showing him to all the SS soldiers like a trophy. On December 17th American Seventh armored division engaged Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army at St. Vith. St. Vith ...
- 4300: Eisenhower 2
- ... of drive, enthusiasm, and a desire to attack on all fronts." Yet only months later, his hopes had collapsed. The Big Four summit in Paris, where the president had looked forward to signing an arms control agreement, ended in disarray after the Soviets shot down an American U-2 spy plane over their territory. Eisenhower's influence in Congress evaporated as Democrats- and even some Republicans- voted to increase spending to ...
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