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- 1271: History Of The French New Wave
- ... by a journalist named Franois Giroud to describe the new and socially active youth class. The idealisms and politics of the post war years like sexual liberation, along with new fashions and American influences like Rock Music and Hollywood combined together to create what has become known as youth culture. It was this new and affluent youth class that created a new market with leisure time and money to spend that ...
- 1272: Hiroshima 5
- ... good men do nothing." The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought us into a war which we had vainly hoped to avoid. We could no longer "do nothing" but were compelled to "do something" to roll back the Japanese militarists. Victims of aggression have every right both to end the aggression and to prevent the perpetrator of it from continuing or renewing it. Our natural right of self defense as well ...
- 1273: Hurricane Georges
- ... a little breeze compared to this.'' The stalks of rice were covered in mud shortly after Georges struck in late September, 1998, but the Haitian farmer, naked from the waist up, thrashed them against a rock in a cloud of dust to dislodge the under-ripe, dirty - and precious - grains. Throughout the Artibonite Valley in central Haiti - the breadbasket of a nation that even in good times can't feed itself ...
- 1274: History Of Lacrosse
- ... then ranged in all directions. There were two goals, between 500 yards and half a mile apart usually, but sometimes they were miles apart. (Boyd 17) Goals ranged in types, a single pole, tree, or rock. Or two goal posts were used where hitting the single "post" or shooting between the two posts resulted in a goal, or one point. Games were reported to reach a hundred points or more on ...
- 1275: Great Depression Timeline
- ... Ku Klux Klan reaches the height of its influence in America: by the end of the year it will claim 9 million members. It will decline drastically in 1925, however, after financial and moral scandals rock its leadership. The stock market begins its spectacular rise. Bears little relation to the rest of the economy. 1925 The top tax rate is lowered to 25 percent - the lowest top rate in the eight ...
- 1276: Fort Henry And Donelson
- ... batteries. While they discussed their next move, Pillow struck the Union right with devastating force. Buckners line was denuded as the Confederates massed troops to break free of encirclment. McClernands right began to roll back on the center, until reinforcements from Wallace halted the victorious Confederates. Why the fighting diminished, Pillow held the Forge Road, leading to Nashville. Pillow had tow sound choices; to press the attack to consolidate ...
- 1277: Everything Old Is New Again
- ... and psychedelic music from Jefferson Airplane and the Doors. In the nineties, many new types of music evolved. These include rap music and hip-hop which came from urban dissatisfaction and unrest, while underground alternative rock became mainstream. In 1969, the Woodstock music festival embodied the spirit of peace and love. It was repeated in 1994 and 1999, but unfortunately, the festival in 1999 ended in violence, marring the essence of ...
- 1278: Egyptian And Mexican Pyramids
- ... The roofs of these chambers were formed of layers of stone beams, lying on top of another, each layer weighing more then 30 tons. The passages into burial chamber was often hewn out of the rock directly from the outer edge. As well as Egyptian pharaoh Mayan rulers like Giant Jaguar was buried in his tomb with hundreds of offerings-vases, jade, jewels and so on. Mayan temple-pyramids usually contained ...
- 1279: Egypt 3
- ... after six long years of digging in the Valley of the Kings. Dr. Howard Carter, an English archeologist, made the discovery with his financial supporter, Lord Carnavon. The tomb had been covered by sand and rock for nearly 3,000 years before it was opened. King Tut who died at around age twenty, was mummified and his tomb had been unmolested during its entire rest, since 1361 B.C. This unimportant ...
- 1280: Early Colonies
- ... not want to move south because of their Puritan beliefs. They thought that everything was predestined, and that they must have landed on this rocky place for a reason. They moved slightly north to Plymouth Rock in order to survive more comfortably. Also because of their Puritan beliefs, they had good relations with the Native Americans. Their pacifist nature led the Indians to help with their crops. In thanks, the Pilgrims ...
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