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- 6891: The Vikings
- ... They could also be sent there if there was a feud between two families and the sending of him would stop the fight. It was hard for a child to get a education from a school. The schools they had were very small and there was very few of them. Children were taught how to farm and, do other household tasks from their parents. Boys were taught how to fight and ...
- 6892: The Holocaust
- ... that, the Germans elected Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. That year, Hitler began a boycott of Jewish business. The Jews lost their jobs in government and public services. Jewish children got segregated form school. All Jewish people received a curfew. Hitler blamed the Depression on the Jews, and they became scapegoats. In 1935 laws were pasted saying that Jews were no longer citizens, and that marriage between Jews and ...
- 6893: The Titanic
- ... these words as he watched the ship go down, and I quote... "Slowly and almost magestially, the emense stern reared itself up, with propellers and rudders clearing the water of the cold Atlantic.... Like a prayer as the disappeared, the word were breathed, 'she is gone" end quote (Anderson, p.2). The unsinkable ship had sunk on her maiden voyage. Among the loss of a beautiful ship about 1495 trusting lives ...
- 6894: Japanese Canadians during World War II
- ... local residents, were another trouble that they have to face. Whites did not allow Japanese families live in their district, and business refuse to hire evacuees. Japanese Canadian students even had hardtime to stay in school. Years after Japanese Canadians release from the relocation camps, although government had apologized for their mistake, but the wound is hard to recover. Over years, Japanese Canadian still influence by the relocation camp. Older generation ...
- 6895: A Short History On Computers
- ... Electronic Digital Computers The start of World War II produced a large need for computer capacity, especially for the military. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchly (left), and their associates at the Moore school of Electrical Engineering of University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high - speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator) The size of ENIAC's ...
- 6896: The Aztec Empire History
- ... Young maize ear," Maize represents a chief staple of the Aztecs. XIPE TOTEC, The god of springtime and re-growth. Aztec dances: The Aztec Dance is known for its special way of expressing reverence and prayer to the supernatural gods of the sun, earth, sky, and water. Originally, the resources accessible to the native Indians were limited, yet they were able to create lively music with the howling of the sea ...
- 6897: Hitler's Germany & Stalin's Russia: A Comparison
- ... concentration camps were given different colored symbols for easy identification. At this point, no one dared speak against their country even in the privacy of one's home lest their children let something slip at school. If you control people's thoughts, you control them. Propaganda was an important tool used by both Germany and Russia. Hitler appointed a man by the name of Joseph Goebbles to head the Ministry of ...
- 6898: Sports in Canada in the 1920s
- ... age of sport for women. The world's greatest basketball team, the Edmonton Grads, were all women. The Edmonton Grads were a team made up of players who were students or graduated from McDougall High School in Edmonton. From 1915 to 1940, they played 522 games and lost 20. The Grads represented Canada at 4 Olympics, and won every single one, including 27 Olympic basketball games in a row. They were ...
- 6899: Japan: After World War II
- ... before a concerted effort was made to obtain one in America. Compulsory education was extened to nine years, efforts were made to make education more a traning in thinking than in rote memory, and the school system above the six elementary grades was revised to conform to the American pattern. This last mechanical change produced great confusion and dissatisfaction but became so entrenched that it could not be re vised even ...
- 6900: The French Revolution
- ... was equal in terms of its social, economic, and spiritual power. The First Estate owned nearly 10 per cent of all land in France. It paid no taxes but, to support church activities such as school running and caring for the poor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of the entire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in this estate were the ...
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