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- 4361: Bosnia-Hercegovina
- ... but a junior branch issued from Pavao count of Trau, the Subic de Zrin, bo re Gules, two wings sable (an interesting violation of the s -called tincture rule). Pavao Subic was forced to cede control of Southern Bosnia to Stjepan otromanic (died 1353); and, in 1314, Mladen II ceded the banate of Bosnia to him. This established the Kotromanic dynasty in Bosnia. Stjepan styles himself dei gratia Bosniae banus, which ...
- 4362: History of the World
- ... in villages in the lower part of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, an area later called Sumer. The Sumerians lived by farming, fishing, and hunting the wild fowl of the river marshes. They built dikes to control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and irrigation canals to carry water to their fields. By about 3500 B.C., some Sumerian farm villages had grown into small cities, which marked the beginning ...
- 4363: Helen Keller
- ... against war and supported the Industrial Workers of the World once again. Helen also began to support many other movements during this time such as the abolition of capital punishment and child labor, the birth control movement, and also the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her involvement with this particular group seemed to be the most controversial and it infuriated her family and friends back in her home ...
- 4364: Jewish History
- ... on the issue of Israel's legitimacy. Withdrawal of the UN troops after May 16 signified to the Israelis that ultimately they would be responsible for their own defense. From this war the jews regained control of the West Bank of the Jordan River. Syria was pushed by a frontal assault through the Golan Heights and threatened Damascus. The United Nation security council managed to execute a cease- fire on June ...
- 4365: Japan: After World War II
- ... to cripple Japanese business and i ndustry forever. The first step in breaking up the Zaibatsu was to spread their ownership out among the people and to prevent the old owners from ever again exercising control. The stocks of all the key holding companies were to be sold to the public. Friends of the old Zaibatsu bought the stock. In the long run the Zaibatsu were not exactly destroyed, but a ...
- 4366: The Holocaust
- ... racism in general but did hardly anything to stop the German actions. The victories of the Germans in the early years of the war brought most of the majority of the European Jews under the control of the Nazi's. The Baltics, Ukrainee's and white Russians gladly joined the Nazi's. France and Italy sent 100,000 Jews to Germany but refused to send any of it's Jews. Holland ...
- 4367: The Shocks of European Colonization
- ... slave trade and Africans have suffered ever since. Due to an inadequate immune system, many Africans were killed. By 1619, the first africans stepped foot on America. By 1672, slave trading had gone out of control. Merchants captured 200 or more Africans, hauled them on ships, and packed them in like sardines to ship to the Americas where they would be auctioned off then forced to a life of being a ...
- 4368: Henry Adams
- ... States s education and growth during the 19th century. Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man s newfound power to control the direction of history, in particular, the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (anb.org, 1). Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a ...
- 4369: Henry Charles Carey
- ... Unfortunately, Carey was unable to forward any proof of this argument but he may have well predicted the future as the advancement in human intelligence has lead to population anti-growth devices such as birth control. The main theory implies that low-income countries are caught in a trap, which condemns the too perpetual poverty. It bases this assumption on per-capita income and on population growth rate. When per-capita ...
- 4370: War in the Falklands
- ... art weapons on the opponents. Later, after the first invasions, some messages went out over the radios. The first ones told people of a small invasion, then they began broadcasting from live sights, complete with gun fire in the background. There were a lot of battles that went on between the British and the Argentineans. The British won some, and the Argentineans won others. They were all fighting for the Falklands ...
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