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- 5131: Labor And Unions In America
- ... their organizing efforts to include employees of federal, state and local governments as well as other professionals. Organizers have also waged long campaigns to unionize and win better conditions for such diverse groups as public school teachers and seasonal farm workers. By the early 1990s, the work force was changing. First. the pool of workers was no longer expanding as rapidly as in the past. And, second, the composition of the ...
- 5132: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- ... took advantage of the long growing season and tobacco became the number one crop (Brinkley, 1995). Society of the southern colonies most closely resembled that of aristocratic England. Plantations contained a virtual monarchy, each with school, a church, and servants (Brinkley, 1995). Many Virginians sent there children to be schooled in England (Brinkley, 1995). To the west was the frontier and a wholly different set of conditions. The environment consisted of ...
- 5133: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... with some government offices remaining in the former West German capital of Bonn Flag The flag of the former West Germany was retained when Germany was reunified in 1990. The colors were taken from the uniforms of German volunteers during the Napoleonic Wars, and have flown intermittently over Germany since 1848. The black represents gunpowder, the red represents blood, and the gold represents fire. Anthem Third verse of "Deutschlandlied" ("Song of ...
- 5134: A Brief History Of Clocks: Fro
- ... having been the first mechanized globe, Archimedes' sphere became a model for later Greek astronomers. For example, Posidonios of Rhodes, a contemporary of Cicero, built a mechanical globe based on Archimedes' sphere. Members of the school of Posidonios created a device to compute the positions of the sun and the moon-what we now call "The Antikythera Mechanism." Challenged by the same, mechanical difficulty Archimedes faced in representing the synodic month ...
- 5135: Adolf Hitler
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ...
- 5136: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-18
- ... to Paris so Herve de Tocqueville could assume his position in the royal court of the Bourbon king Louis XVIII. In 1820, Tocqueville was sent to Metz were he studied rhetoric and philosophy in secondary school and the college royal. He then returned to Paris to study law in 1825. He was then appointed as a juge auditeur (mediator) in Versailles were he met Gaustave de Beaumont, who became a life ...
- 5137: American Reconstruction
- ... had only come for their gain, and called them "carpetbaggers." African Americans made up close to one-third of the Republican delegates. These delegates wrote new constitutions based on Northern examples. They set up public school systems and gave the vote to all adult males. By 1869, voters had approved all these constitutions and the ex-Confederate states were let back in the Union. Fourteen African American congressmen and two African ...
- 5138: Allen Ginsberg
- Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey on June 3, 1926. His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a high school teacher. His mother, Naomi, was a radical Communist, paranoid, psychotic, and died in a mental institution in 1956. Ginsberg also had a brother who became a lawyer in Paterson, New Jersey. Ginsbergs childhood was ...
- 5139: Amelia Earhart
- ... In 1914 Amy and the girls left Edwin after he was fired from The Rock Island RR, and went to live with friends in Chicago. After visiting her sister in 1917 at a college preparatory school in Canada, Amelia decided to train as a nurses aid in Toronto and served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at a military hospital until the Armistice in November 1918. In the fall of 1919 ...
- 5140: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
- ... Her love of learning she acquired from her father, Zeb Rudolph, a leading citizen of Hiram, Ohio, and devout member of the Disciples of Christ. She first met "Jim" Garfield when both attended a nearby school, and they renewed their friendship in 1851 as students at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, founded by the Disciples. But "Crete" did not attract his special attention until December 1853, when he began a rather ...
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