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- 3801: K.k.k.
- ... Alice Shroeder. She was a prominent citizen in the area and held many titles including Grand Tribunal, Past Excellent Commander, Past Grand Klaiff, Grand Officer and Past Kleagle. Other members of the KKK organization included John C. Shroeder, Claude Parr, and B.C. Pond. Robert Anderson's scrapbook contains many interesting clippings, poems, and pictures from Klan activities throughout the country. The cover is decorated with an American flag with the ...
- 3802: Italian Renaissance Vs.
- ... a literary movement that occurred during the Renaissance. Although it was understood to be the same thing throughout Europe, the Italians and the northerners conceived it differently. Some of the more important northern humanists include John Calvin, Thomas More in England, and Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Christian humanism of the north is easily distinguished with the pagan humanism of Italy. In the north, humanists studied the Hebrew and Greek texts of ...
- 3803: Why the North Won the Civil War
- ... New York: Doubleday, 1952. Unknown. The Coming Fury. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961. Vol 2 of The Centennial History of the Civil War. 3 vols. n.d. Unknown. Reflections on the Civil War. Ed. John Leekley. 1st ed. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981. "Civil War." Encyclopedia Americana. 1987 ed. "Civil War." World Book Encyclopedia. 1981 ed. "Cotton." World Book Encyclopedia. 1981 ed. Furnas, J.C.. The Americans: A Social ...
- 3804: Iraq And The United States
- ... can be found in famine. However, the United States is spending U.S. tax dollars in vain. Many congressmen are also unhappy in with the way the U.S. tax dollars are being spent. Senator John Warner, Republican Virginia, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services is very unhappy of the unnecessary spending of the U.S. dollar. Warner stated: "Based on briefings tax payers have spent $750 million on ...
- 3805: Irish Potato Famine
- ... men, women and children were "carefully, prudently, and peacefully" slain by the English government. They died of hunger in the midst of abundance "which their own hands created. In 1861in the Last Conquest of Ireland, John Mitchel wrote: "The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine." Why did the rest of the world accept this? The truth of the matter is they were led to believe ...
- 3806: Ireland, Land Of Two Countries
- ... of Ireland to be ruled from Great Britain. In 1920 the Government Act of Ireland, which came into effect the following year confirmed that the six counties of Northern Ireland would be ruled from London. (John Vincent) In 1921 after the North was to be ruled from Great Britain, a civil war broke out in the southern 26 counties, between those who were willing to accept the settlement and those who ...
- 3807: Internation Monetary Fund
- ... scale by all nations in establishing an innovative monetary system and an international institution to monitor it. Fortunately, in a happy coincidence, two bold and original thinkers, Harry Dexter White in the United States and John Maynard Keynes in the United Kingdom, put forward almost simultaneously in the early 1940s proposals for just such a system, to be supervised not by occasional international meetings but by a permanent cooperative organization. The ...
- 3808: Indus Civilization
- ... predated the historical period, true archaeological excavations were not begun until the 1920s. During that decade the so-called twin capitals of Indus civilization, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, were excavated under the direction of Sir John Marshall; other important settlements were surveyed by Sir Aurel Stein and N. G. Majumdar. The existence of a great civilization roughly contemporaneous with that of Sumer and of ancient Egypt soon was confirmed. Hundreds of ...
- 3809: Indian Frontier
- ... the most widely heard of names in the battles between Indians and whites. These names include Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, Sitting Bull of the Oglala Sioux, Cochise, Geronimo, and Mangas Coloradas, and John Ross of the Cherokee Nation. These names are still very respected among historians and are seen throughout history books used in schools across the nation. These names were involved in many battles with whites in ...
- 3810: Imperial Telecommunications
- ... by knowing one another, will finally stop fighting. Despite the great benefits of telecommunications, it incited international paranoia and jealousy, and thus it could not bring peace to the world. Works Cited Benson, Ian, and John Lloyd. New Technology and Industrial Change. Kogan Page Limited: London, 1983. Headrick, Daniel R. The Tentacles of Progress. Oxford University Press: New York, 1988. Haeton, J. Henniker. The Postal and Telegraphic Communications of the Empire ...
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