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- 8551: Ending Of Apartheid In South A
- ... probable reason was that apartheid was no longer practical or possible to maintain in the country. This underlying fact had been brought about by several events. Fourteen years prior to Mandelas release in 1976 school pupils had rioted in Soweto, the result of which had been many deaths amongst the children. The cause of the riot had been because of the appauling conditions in black township schools. Classes were over ...
- 8552: Early Resistance To British Na
- ... such example. The process of territorial expansion that started with the annexation of Bengal, the "private trade" which enabled merchant's in the Company's service to make fortunes on the side, coupled with a high level of corruption, meant that more and more men sought their fortunes in India. The early lifestyle of the merchant adventurer in the Company's trading posts gave way to a more conventional society, with ...
- 8553: Events Leading To The French R
- ... regime, the churchwas equal in terms of its social, economic, and spiritual power. The FirstEstate owned nearly 10 per cent of all land in France. It paid no taxesbut, to support church activities such as school running and caring for thepoor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of theentire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in thisestate were the nobles. Some of ...
- 8554: Eleanor Aquitaine
- ... She enjoyed Latin comedies and could read and speak it, a rare accomplishment for a laity member. When Eleanor was 15 her father, William X died on Good Friday 1137. He was buried under the high altar at Compostella. Though a woman could inherit a fief, receive homage from its vassals and lead them into war, it was also true, under a feudal law any ruthless suitor might seize her and ...
- 8555: Edgar Allan Poe 2
- ... before Edgar's third birthday and Edgar was taken in to the home of John and Fanny Allan in Richmond, Va. The Allans lived in England for five years (1815-1820) where Edgar also attended school. In 1826 he entered the University of Virginia. Although a good student he was forced to gambling since John Allan did not provide well enough. Allan refused to pay Edgar's debts and Edgar had ...
- 8556: Durham Cathedral
- ... architecture involves the style of vaulting used. The builders of Durham Cathedral in England invented a new method of building arches. They built two intersecting diagonal arches across the bay, on lighter centering perhaps supported high on the nave walls, and then found ways to fill out the shell resting on secondary centering. This gave a new geometric articulationthe ribbed vault. Ribs did not modify the structural characteristics of the ...
- 8557: Donner Party
- ... Party became stranded and met only tragedy two years later. The Stephens Party was led by experienced mountain men and included a physician among its members; the Donner Party was composed of farmers and a high proportion of women, elderly, and children. The Donner brothers, Jacob and George, along with James Reed, all from Illinois, organized the party. They set out on their journey in April of 1846 and in a ...
- 8558: Declaration For War In 1917
- ... in the same, but one of my main reasons for wanting to go to war is national pride. Germany had violated the rights of United States citizens. They had restricted us from traveling across the high seas without being in danger. They had slapped us in the face by killing innocent citizens of a neutral nation. I had used this example in my other speech but I think it is appropriate ...
- 8559: D-day 2
- ... 20,000 airborne troops. By the end of D-Day 2,500 allied soldiers were killed (10,000 were planned). Of the 11,770 paratroopers 5,436 were either killed or wounded. German losses were high as well 80,000 troops, and one tank division. Weeks of hard fighting were ahead, but the foundation for the final success of the Allied campaign in France had been firmly set. Scene of one ...
- 8560: Dutch Slave Trade
- ... and the Dutch society was mainly consisted of bourgeoisie, sailors, and merchants. Because of the major trade industry in Holland, and that agricultural was secondary to the trading industry, the Dutch people were taxed extremely high for goods. However, a wave of culture flowed through Dutch Society, influenced by the economic profit that the Dutch gained from trade. The production of sugarcane and cotton in the New World increased the urgency ...
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