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- 2561: The Causes of World War 1, and the Battles
- ... hands bulge his intestines; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces
The two biggest and horrifying battles of the World War I are the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme. John Keegan, a military historian in his interview tells about the Battle of Somme: "It was the biggest barrage that had ever been. So, they were firing over 100,000 shells a day; relentless, relentless banging ...
- 2562: The Suez Crisis of 1956: The War From Differing Viewpoints
- ... to be put under Egyptian control so as to help raise revenues for the Dam project was strongly echoed in the Arab works. Apparently, the move was in part a reprisal to the moves of John Foster Dulles, who was the U.S. Secretary of State at the time, and who had been behind the decision to revoke the funding for the project as a way of punishing Nasser for his ...
- 2563: Titanic
- ... than $ 55,000 in todays dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY , she held among her 2,227 passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor. Macys founder; U.S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships builder. The ship was built of easily sealed-off compartments. If, for some unimaginable reason, the hull were punctured, only the ...
- 2564: The Battle of Midway in the Pacific
- ... off. By 6:16, all 66 of Midway's aircraft were airborne. While the bombers headed toward the Japanese carriers, Parks led six Buffaloes and three Wildcats to intercept the 108 oncoming Japanese planes. Captain John Carey, leading the three Wildcats in Parks' flight, was first to sight the Japanese. "Tallyho! Hawks at angels twelve!" Carey radioed. The Japanese bombers flew in a large V formation, trailed by gaggles of Zeros ...
- 2565: Bob Dylan
- ... two years. As a boy he started listening to late night rhythm and blues stations from Chicago. He pestered the local record store for the newest singles from Hank Williams, Chuck Barry, Howlin' Wolf , and John Lee Hooker, just to name a few. These early influences played, and still play, a big role in Dylans unique musical style. Somewhere around the age of ten, Dylan realized that he wanted to ...
- 2566: The Nuclear Arms Race
- ... again by the Soviets. A serious crisis arose in 1962, when the Soviets placed ballistic missiles in Cuba, their new ally. The missiles were withdrawn when the U.S. threatened nuclear retaliation. In return, President Kennedy's promised not to invade Cuba. The world had never come closer to a nuclear war. Negotiations, beginning with the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1957, began between the two countries. As ...
- 2567: Bonnie And Clyde
- ... of Clydes first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase "Bonnie and Clyde" took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated ...
- 2568: Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI
- ... Front (1973) 3) Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (1992) 4) Gray, Edwyn, The Killing Time: the U-Boat War, 1914-1918 (1972) 5) Hayes, G. P., World War I: A Compact History (1972) 6) Lederer, Ivo John, ed., The Versailles Settlement (1960) 7) Marshall, S. L., World War I (1985). 8) Rimell, Raymond L., World War I in the Air (1988) 9) Wren, Jack, The Great Battles of World War I (1971 ...
- 2569: Life In The 1900s
- ... Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Nova Scotia. By the turn of the century telephones had uses increased from ordering household goods to supplying jobs for women and men. 1901, Signal Hill in St.John's Newfoundland Guglielmo Marcone received the first radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean. 20 years would elasped before radio broadcasting becomes mass entertainment. First movies were seen in the 19th century. 20 years will ...
- 2570: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... was an overproduction of wheat and industrial goods. The war had created changes in the structure in the economy as well as damage in the international trade. Wages were always falling behind. Economic theories of John Maynard Keynes were helpful and suggested that if private investment failed to produce full employment, the state must initiate public investment through deficit spending to create jobs. Keynesian economics became part of the government policy ...
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