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- 1911: The Nazis and Their Rise to Power and Downfall
- ... groups perished swiftly. Fluids from diseased animals were injected into humans to observe the effect. Prisoners were forced to exist on sea water to see how long castaways might survive. Gynecology was an area of interest. Various methods of sterilization were practiced--by massive X-ray, by irritants and drugs, by surgery without benefit of anesthetic. As techniques were perfected, it was determined that a doctor with 10 assistants could sterilize ...
- 1912: The Vikings
- ... Danish Vikings led by a man named Asgeir sailed the River Seine, and they burnt the city Rouen to the ground. Next they moved into St. Denis, but decided that it was in their best interest not to provoke the passing Frankish army. But they went right back at it again in 842 they destroyed Quenstovic, the Frisian harbor town. In 845 they attacked the tri-divided Holy Roman Empire, all ...
- 1913: Early Western Civilization, Egyptian tomb
- Early Western Civilization, Egyptian tomb Egyptologists had lost interest in the site of tomb 5, which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay ...
- 1914: Roots of Russian Revolution
- ... were only given the opportunity to share it as members of a village commune(mir). In addition, the mir had to pay back the government for the land over a period of 49 years with interest. Alexander also formed a series of elected local councils that gave districts restricted jurisdiction of certain aspects of life. He too became more of a reactionary towards the end of his reign. The result was ...
- 1915: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- ... certain, a land claim problem, but they also have a huge society disorder. The living conditions on reserves is a hideous almost nauseating disgrace, which the government must attend to immediately. there is high unemployment rates on reserves, which in turn results in poor living standards, and thus the natives become restless, turning to alcohol and drug abuse. There must be a political will, to put all those long fancy words ...
- 1916: Japan: After World War II
- ... the government and sold on easy terms to former tenants. Within two years 2 million tenants became landowners. The American occupation immediately gained not only a large constituency, for the new owners had a vested interest in preserving the change, but also a psychological momentum for other changes they wanted to ini tiate. The American labor policy in Japan had a double goal: to encourage the growth of democratic unions while ...
- 1917: The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich
- ... willful, arrogant, and irascible. He has an obvious difficulty in fitting in at school." He did well enough to get by in some of his courses but had no time for subjects that did not interest him. Years later, his former school mates would remember how Adolf would taunt his teachers and draw sketches of them in his school notebooks. Forty years later, in the sessions at his headquarters which produced ...
- 1918: History Repeats Itself
- ... prosperity and power. Decline in the United States is occurring on both an economic and social level. America has witnessed a rapid centralization at the seat of federal power and a capital more influenced by interest groups than by voters. "Imperial capitals don't become notorious until they display wealth and develop serious, parasitic elites, not true of Washington until it came of age in the late 1960's and 1970 ...
- 1919: Curfews
- ... Curfew Law 1). With all this dissension, it is hard to understand why curfew ordinances are in such abundance across the U.S. One unanimous mayor justified curfews by saying that they reduce adolescent crime rates (The Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws 4). This is hard to believe since a recent survey showed that adolescent crime was on a decline in all U.S. cities, not just the ones who impose ...
- 1920: Should Unmarried Couples Live Together?
- ... than twice as likely to have extramarital affairs, unlike women who did not have premarital sex ( London 46 ). When it comes to being faithful, married couples who did not live together before marriage have higher rates of loyalty. One study, done over a period of five years, reported in the book titled Cohabitation, Marriage, Marital Dissolution, and Remarriage: United Sates 1988: data states that ninety-percent of married women were monogamous ...
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