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- 6531: The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And America
- ... were in short numbers due to the Civil War. Theodore Roosevelt resigned his position in the Navy and joined the Army, leading a group of me deemed the "Rough Riders." The men were given wool uniforms, and small rations if any at all. Many (5,200+) died from famine and disease and struggled constantly with the 100 degree heat of the tropics. The Army troops pulled through and defeated the Spaniards ...
- 6532: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
- ... the present political system have their hands soaked with blood and still have power." Winitchakul himself was jailed for two years. The print media has been unrelenting in demanding that official history be expunged from school and university curricula. Its campaign has included not only analysis, but also accounts of the events behind the 1976 and other student massacres and a May 1992-killing of pro-democracy activists. The 1992 uprising ...
- 6533: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- ... me that the atomic bomb equals all of the cruel acts. Therefore, I do not think the dropping of the atomic bomb can be justified with the act of Japan. When I was a high school student, a teacher of history taught us that America dropped the atomic bomb for various reasons, not only for beating Japan. It was not until that I knew the fact. Though the teacher did not ...
- 6534: 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 ...
- 6535: The Major Cause of 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 ...
- 6536: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... Gori, Georgia, which at the time was part of the vast Russian Empire. He was the third and only surviving child of a cobbler and a housecleaner. In 1888 Stalin began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilisi Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital in 1894. II YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY Stalin began his studies at the seminary as ...
- 6537: 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 ...
- 6538: World War I
- ... Shanahan, William O., “Germany” Collier’s Encyclopedia, Macmillan Educational Co. & P.F. Collier, Inc, New York, 1983 ed., Vol.11 p17-37 Farah, Mounir, & Berens-Karls, Andrea, World History, The Human Experience, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co., Glencoe Division, Ohio, 1992, p692-714 “Germany in World War One”, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6916/ww1.htm “A History of the First World War: The Aftermath”, http://www.geocities.com ...
- 6539: The Causes of the French Revolution
- ... financial difficulties reached a state of emergency and still Necker and Louis XVI did not introduce tax reform. The cost of support to America was not just associated with money. Already in France a new school of thought was developing amongst the Bourgeoisie. This was further aided by the transmission of Revolutionary thoughts from America back into France. Many French Troops (mainly the Bourgeoisie) came back encouraged by the revolution to ...
- 6540: The Medieval Period
- ... and primitive ideas about the anatomy of the human eye (Turner 195). This helped lead Islamic physicians and mathematicians in the right direction. Much of the knowledge gathered from these early scientists is taught in school access the nation, as well as the world. The Islamic physician Ibn alHaytham came up with an idea not far from what is understood today as the process of human vision. Haytham diagrammed how an ...
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