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- 1751: Aztec Mythology: Quetzalcoatl
- Aztec Mythology: Quetzalcoatl Human beings, by nature, seek to explain the world around them and attribute human qualities to natural phenomenon. This is not unique to any particular culture in any time or place in the world. The Aztecs Empire was no exception to this rule. The Aztecs like many non-western cultures in the sixteenth century had a pantheon of Gods to which they attributed the creation and workings of the natural world. One of their principle gods, Quetzalcoatl, had many manifestations, each an important part of the Aztec myths of creation and the workings of the natural world. The roles of the Quetzalcoatl are fascinating to ...
- 1752: August Tubbe
- ... never spoken by the August Tubbe family in the United States and his children had no understanding of German. Page 3 Ironically, August Tubbe was charged with being an Alien-enemy as the conflicts of World War I emerged. He denied these accusations emphatically and believed the charges to be absolutely unreasonable. August tried to explain that all he had in the world was right there in Nacogdoches County, Texas. He questioned the authorities asking how could he be an enemy to that which he loved and upon which the very existence of his life depended. August ...
- 1753: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- ... of the finest papers ever known. The "it" is not some new miracle compound invented in the science labs of industry, but an ancient plant that is one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world: Hemp. The first known rope was made from it. The Chinese used it to make the first fish nets 6,500 years ago. The ancient Greeks wore hemp garments. Thomas Jefferson raised hemp on his ... 1988.5 In 1993, England began to produce hemp for fiber (British Farmers). In 1994, Canada harvested its first crop of industrial hemp after more than 50 years of prohibition (Turner, Craig). The re-emerging world hemp industry is growing steadily, and farmers are excited and enthusiastic about the potential of hemp crops. Hemp has been valued throughout this country's history as an important raw material. Until the late 1800s ... The transfer tax of $1.00/ounce effectively ended all hemp production in the United States by making commerce in hemp prohibitively expensive. Restrictions on hemp production were eased briefly in the United States during World War II when Japan invaded the Philippines, cutting off the supply of abaca (Manila hemp) (Hesington 77). The U.S. Navy desperately needed a domestic supply of hemp to provide the lines and rigging ...
- 1754: Marijuana
- ... countries where it is said to have been used for thousands of years in medicines to relieve pain, tension, and various physical ailments. From India, the use of marijuana spread to other parts of the world. It was first introduced to Europe in the 1850s, but its use there was very rare until the last few years. Marijuana has a fairly long history of use in Mexico and Latin America. It was first introduced into the United States around 1910 by Mexican laborers. During the Vietnam War many drugs were easily available to the soldiers in the war. Many of these men turned to marijuana to subside the misery of war. When they returned home, they continued the habit. Thus, in the 1960s, marijuana became a symbol of rebellion for the ...
- 1755: History of The Internet
- ... language, TCP/IP, the standard protocol. The Internet allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge. Resources available on the Internet are chat groups, e-mail, newsgroups, file transfers, and the World Wide Web. The Internet has no centralized authority and it is uncensored. The Internet belongs to everyone and to no one. The Internet is structured in a hierarchy. At the top, each country has at ... college users to the backbone networks. Today, there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries worldwide. However, it all started with one network. In the early 1960's the Cold War was escalating and the United States Government was faced with a problem. How could the country communicate after a nuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had a solution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from city to city, and base to base. The network was designed to function ...
- 1756: Marijuana Should Be Legalized
- ... passed legislation permitting medical use of Marijuana, (welcome California!)· Legalize it * Marijuana is the name given to any drugs made from the hemp plant, Cannabis. Forms of marijuana are known by different names throughout the world. In Western countries, particularly the United States, it is known as grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, and Mary Jane. Marijuana can be smoked through a pipe, or it can be rolled into a cigarette (Grolier ... to ban marijuana, it remains a widely used drug. Use has decreased, but 50 million people have tried it at least once and only a small percentage of those people are addicts (Ending Nightmare). The "War on Drugs" drains our country of much needed money and resources for the seizure of marijuana, and yet, marijuana is still plentiful (Ending Nightmare). Sixty percent of prisoners in federal prisons are drug users, mostly ... 359 million every year (Prison Crowding). If marijuana, most of these drug users would be free and there would be more room for convicts of violent crimes like rape and murder. The goal of the War on Drugs is to seize illegal drugs like marijuana, and prevent importation and sale of them. Every year, more money is spent, more drugs are seized, penalties for drug use increase and become more ...
- 1757: Louis Leakey
- ... Recks find because the age of the skeleton could not be proven. Further, Reck could not return to the site because, as he was German and Britain had won that region of Africa in World War I, he was not able to go there. Leakey was fascinated with the site and told Reck that they would one day go back. For the time being, this had to be put on hold ... dug at many sites, finding many stone tools, animal bones, and other artifacts. His search, however, was for proof of the use of a specific Chellean hand-axe style found in other parts of the world. This he found in 1929, and its discovery pushed back the age of the Great Rift Valley in Africa a great deal. Further, it provided critical evidence for a level of sophistication in East ...
- 1758: Describe The Elements Of Death
- Describe the elements of war and death in Stephen Crane s The Red Badge of Courage. This book is divided into two parts. In the first part the main characters, Henry Flemings. illusions disappear when confronted by the reality of ... malevolent, probably no different, but is certainly not the benevolent pantheist realm of the transcentalists, and God, is simply nowhere to be found(Weatherford 32). In the second part of the novel Henry beco0mes a war devil , the hero that he wanted to be originally when another battle is over, all Henry has accomplished is negated. Many critics found the last chapter confused and muttled, Henry s feelings range from remorse to the sin which is not responsible to pride as a great hero. Finally he feels the world was a world for him and he looks forward to a soft and eternal peace (bowers 173). The end of the book is like that of many of Cranes conclusions completely ironic. No one ...
- 1759: Definition Of Race
- ... relative superiority, and racial prejudices and myths are no more than a means of finding a scapegoat when the position of individuals and the cohesion of a group are threatened. Anthropologists stress the heterogeneity of world population, and many reject the concept of race outright. This concept is not understood by most, and must be emphasized to people around the world. This would create unity the world over simply by pointing out that race does not exist. In order to fully understand this concept, the history of the word race must be analyzed. Throughout history, it is a matter of observation ...
- 1760: Essat On Taiwan Now And Then
- ... official on Thursday defended his government's right to develop long-range missiles after US reports said China was building a new missile base targeting the island of Taiwan. During the period of the Opium War, a British fleet tried to occupy Keelung harbor in north Taiwan but eventually failed. This was the first aggressive move on Taiwan by imperialist powers. In October 1856, the "Arrow" incident which occurred in Canton induced a Second Opium War, and as a result four Tientsin treaties were concluded during June, 1858. Based on the Tientsin treaties, Tamsui, Keelung, Anping and Takao were opened to the West, and western missionaries were allowed to propagate Christianity ... Taiwan Democratic Republic had already collapsed, the resistance of the Taiwanese people kept on. By November however, the Japanese had control of the entire island. Skipping forward in time, in 1945 Japan is defeated in World War II In spite of the fact that there was no international agreement regarding change of status on Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek had swiftly renamed Taiwan as "Taiwan Province" of China. On September 5, ...
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