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- 1081: The Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
- ... we would none of us do such things again on such grounds for the whole world, praying you to accept this in satisfaction of our offense; and that you would bless the inheritance of the Lord, that He may be entreated for the land."17 In 1710 the government cleared the names of all but five of those who had been executed. During the next 40 to 50 years, families of ...
- 1082: Leo Szilard and the Atomic Bomb
- ... of the chain reaction. Years later in 1939 the atom was split and Dr. Leo Szilard would play a critical part in the making of the atomic bomb. April 24, 1939 physicist Paul Harteck and Lord Rutherford wrote to Hitler's war office telling him about the newest development in nuclear physics. Professor Hans Geiger co-inventor of the Geiger counter was shown this letter. In June of that year Geiger ...
- 1083: The Power of Speech & the Persuasion of Writing
- ... and untimely" statements made by the Clergymen by saying, " I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world ...
- 1084: Native American Genocide
- ... and persevered until this very day. That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom the college and the Massachusetts town are named, had sent disease-bearing blankets as "peace offerings" to a hostile Indian tribe near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, triggering an epidemic. The ...
- 1085: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... scene, Twas awful to see how the afflicted persons were agitated. Then later he added in the margin as if remorsefully, Alas,alas,alas!(Robbins 62) George Burroghs, speaking from the scaffold ladder, repeated the Lords Prayer, which no servant of Satan was supposed to do (Robbins 63). Magistrates based their judgments and evaluations on various kinds of intangible evidence, including direct confessions, supernatural attributes ( witchmarks), and reactions of the ...
- 1086: The Cause of the War Between Britain and America
- ... was being fought leaders of America took their first step toward freedom. A Declaration of Independence was created to proclaim Americas' freedom from Britain. The French and Indian war left the British government in debt. Lord George Grenville came up with a tax program to pay for the war. The Sugar Act, passed in 1764, increased taxes on imported goods. The Currency Act took the right to issue their own money ...
- 1087: The Cause of the American Revolution
- ... early 1700s before the thirteen colonies were prosperous. England neglected the colonies because it was in their best interest not to interfere. For example, Maryland was founded in 1634 by a Roman Catholic man named Lord Baltimore. Townspeople soon established a proprietary system of self- government. This is just one example of what was achieved without the help of Great Britain. Similar advances happened throughout all the colonies. When New England ...
- 1088: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... Sebald 72). There were also two tests used in the courtroom to "prove" that someone was a witch. The first test to see if a person was a witch was if they could say the Lord's prayer correctly. If they were indeed a witch, they would say "hollowed" instead of "hallowed" and add phrases not in the King James version of the Bible (Starkey 104). The second test was referred ...
- 1089: The Townshend Act
- ... troops fired, killing five people. The so-called Boston Massacre aroused great colonial resentment. This anger was soon increased by further parliamentary legislation. Bowing to colonial economic boycotts, Parliament, guided by the new prime minister, Lord Frederick North, repealed the Townshend Acts in 1770 but retained the tax on tea to assert its right to tax the colonies. In order to rescue the British East India Company from bankruptcy, Parliament passed ...
- 1090: Lusitania
- ... with a very strong explosion cloud." The ship tilted about 15 , making the lifeboats nearly impossible to board. Six out of the 48 lifeboats escaped before the ship completely sank 18 minutes later (Simpson 74). Lord Mersey, the judge conducting the Court of Inquiry, concluded that the Admiralty had tried to falsely blame Captain Turner for the incident. He also found that almost all oaths given by the crew members to ...
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