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- 1361: Battles Of World War One
- ... expedition was mounted. This led to the slaughter of the allied armies. When the allies retreated they left behind about 200,000 dead comrades. The loss at Gallipoli caused Winston Churchill to resign as first lord of admiralty. Another very important battle of World War One was the battle of Verdun. The French stationed a lot of forces in Verdun, then Germany attacked. On the first day of the assault more ...
- 1362: Aztecs 5
- ... Aztec Empire and the conquistadors occurred when Motecuhzoma and Cortes met face to face for the first time. The Spaniards as well as the Aztecs had no clue what to expect. Motecuhzoma told Cortes, Our lord, you are weary. The journey has tired you, but now you have arrived on earth to sit on your throne, under its canopy. This was due to the fact that the Aztec religion told of ...
- 1363: Aztec Indians 2
- ... at Teotihuacan, which begins with the gods gathering in the darkness at Teotihuacan to bring forth the sun. The two gods that were chosen to become the sun were: Tecciztecatl - a rich, powerful and haughty lord; and Nanahuatzin - a weak, poor, scab-covered god. A huge fire was built for sacrifice. Tecciztecatl showed fear in his attempt to throw himself into the fire, so he became the moon, while Nanahuatzin manifested ...
- 1364: Assassination Of Martin Luther
- ... State, a reference to its wealth and variety of resources. 33 North Carolina The people of North Carolina may have received their nickname the Tarheels during one of those wars. When the British forces of Lord Cornwallis across waded across the tar rivers in 1781 the soldiers supposedly found their feet blackened with tar that had been dumped into the water. 34 North Dakota The nickname Flickertail State came from the ...
- 1365: Absolutism And Peter The Great
- ... in many respects but were, with few exceptions, incapable of self-government... The result was that governmental authority was held by a number of rulers who assumed unto themselves all the responsibilities of political leadership. Lord Acton, a famous historian, while not advocating its use, believed that absolutism was highly necessary for the survival and actual allowance for European growth through her monarchs. Three characteristics that specifically mark a seventeenth century ...
- 1366: Arhurian Romances
- ... never been with a woman before so he does not know how to act. He forces himself on top of her, kisses her, eats her food, and steals her ring and leaves. She tells her lord and he yells and accuses her of liking it and says he will behead the man who did that to his property. This shows that the chivalric code is learned by knights and causes problems ...
- 1367: Ancient Stories Of The Flood
- ... to caw and wallow in the mud; it never came back. Eventually the ship grounded on Mount Nisir. Utnapishtim, seeing that the flood had receded, disembarked and set out an offering for the gods. Enil, Lord of the underworld, was very angry when he saw that Utnapishtim had been spared. He was soon calmed by the other gods and gave his blessing to Utnapishtim and his wife by granting them the ...
- 1368: Adolf Hitler The Final Solutio
- ... Hitler himself put it, Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. During the Holocaust German SS Troops would invade homes and kill the Jews inside or they would arrest them. They would send away the arrested by train to different concentration and/or death camps, resulting ...
- 1369: Nightjohn And Number The Stars
- ... not only own people, but whip them and torture them. I could not believe someone would chain a person up and whip their backs until their skin peeled. Then leave them there and let the flies lay eggs in their backs. That literally made me ill. I could not grasp the fact that a human being treated people as if they were wild, untamed animals. Send dogs to find them and ...
- 1370: Gullivers Travels - Houyhnhnml
- ... with the utmost astonishment that I witnessed these creatures playing the flute and dancing a Vienese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke" (162). As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful. For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he ...
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