The Irish Republican Army And British Rule
.... after losing too many men. Afterwards the British brought the
leaders of the uprising before trial. Most of the leaders like Thomas
McDonagh, Patrick Pearce James Connolly and Thomas Clark were all executed
by a firing squad. Expect for de Valera, who was not executed because he
was an American and could not be killed by the British government. Others
that were connected with the rebellion were faced with long prison terms.
Micheal Collins one of the members was put in prison and not released
until May of 1918. The uprising was one of the many events that led the
establishment of the Irish Free State. The proclamation of the .....
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The Root Of Western Civilization
.... spent long hours and put forth much effort in their attempt to
spread Christianity. This would take a while because of the broad size of
the Roman Empire and the so little few of the missionaries. However, there
were many conversions to Christianity within short period so this religion
dominated.
In the Western Civilization Society, the Hebrews were a culture
that kept their maintenance in effect. In the Book of Exodus, Yahweh chose
Moses to guide the slaved people in Egypt to Palestine. Yahweh destroyed
the pursuing Egyptian army, a sign of his great presence. Moses was also
given the Ten Commandments and othe .....
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Russian Revolution Of 1917
.... were few and not enough productive, and the railroad network was’
nt what they needed. Repeated movements, moreover, disrupted industrial and
agricultural production. The food supply waz lowered, and the
transportation system became very weird. In the trenches, the soldiers went
hungry and most didnt have any shoes or munitions, sometimes even weapons.
Russian deaths were more than those suffered by any army in any other war.
Behind the front, goods were no more, prices raised, and by 1917 famine
threatened the larger cities. Discontent was in every single person, and
the moral of the army suffered, finally to be underm .....
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The Causes Of The Holocaust
.... a "free city." Poland
gained most of Western Prussia and Germany's Rhineland was demilitarized,
although allied troops occupied it for fifteen years after the war (Shirer
59). The Treaty also solely held Germany responsible for the War in a
"war guilt" clause which greatly upset the Germans. When the German
government saw the treaty, they heavily opposed i! t; however they had to
accept it. Germany's new republican government ratified it in 1919.
Germany's defeat in the war and the provisions in the Treaty of Versailles,
officially ending the war, greatly outraged the German people. Germany
had lost everything, the economy wa .....
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Iwo Jima
.... soldiers as he was told. (John Man 116)
Another important leader was Lt. General Holland M. Smith. Also
known as “Howling Mad”. He was in charge of leading the assault on Iwo
Jima. He successfully landed and deployed all of his troops. (John Man
117) Lt. Harold Schrider was also a major leader in the battle for Iwo Jima.
He was responsible for taking Mt. Suribachi. He was responsible for
clearing out the mountain after all the fighting was finished. (Iwo
Jima.com 2)
The Battle for Iwo Jima was very interesting to me and I wanted to
find out all about it. In my research I want to discover what was the
battle of Iwo Jima’s e .....
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The History Of Stonehenge
.... an earth
bank inside it. A ring of holes, known as the Aubrey Holes, were excavated
inside the bank(The World's Last Mysteries). The holes were shallow and
carefully spaced, and almost immediately filled in after being dug.
Archaeological studies have shown the Aubrey Holes never contained stones
or wooden posts; however there were a few instances where bones had been
inserted after the holes had been filled(The World's Last Mysteries).
Scientists have yet to find the meaning of the Aubrey Holes even after
excavation. Other features of the Stonehenge I phase have puzzled
researchers such as; the Heel Stone and several irregular l .....
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19th Century Romanticism In Europe
.... such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what
Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and
gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as
opposed to collectivism. In England, there was a resurgence into
Shakespearean drama since many Romantics believed that Shakespeare had not
been fully appreciated during the 18th century. His style of drama and
expression had been downplayed and ignored by the Enlightenment's narrow
classical view of drama. Friedrich von Schlegel and Samuel Taylorleridge
(from Germany and England .....
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Castles: Seen By The Light Of A Thousand Candles
.... benefits of stone rapidly gained popularity. Some hedged a little with structures of stone and timber together, but many had their castles built completely of stone.
Castles could consist of a tower set atop a hill or mote (15 to 30 feet high) surrounded by a wall at the edge of the top of the mote and a wet or dry ditch at the bottom. Natural hills were favored for this as artificial mounds tended not to support the intense weight of the stone buildings and walls. The wall was a timber palisade or a stone shell wall or outer curtain wall (often with a wallwalk), and the entire tower, wall, and motte structure was a shell keep in .....
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Attack Of The Normans In 1066
.... even all--spoke a similar language. In his history, the Venerable Bede tells us of Angles, Saxons and Jutes (from Jutland), but these were by no means the only tribes who descended on Britain.
There is scant evidence available concerning the Anglo-Saxon invasion or life in England during this unsettled time. Various societies rose and fell, until by the 7th century England was a collection of seven primary kingdoms, which historians sometimes call the heptarchy. The kings were frequently at war with one another as they jostled for supremacy, yet at the same time monasteries were established and there was even a cultural ren .....
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Auschwitz
.... Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html)
Auschwitz had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the Auschwitz complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates suggest 1 .....
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The Battle Of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
.... out of Zeebrugge with great success and the Admiralty was increasingly gloomy about what would happen in the English Channel if the Belgium ports were not closed to the enemy. Pressure had consequently been put on Field Marshal Haig to make an attack in Flanders. Haig's plan was to strike out of Ypres to the North and East and, in conjunction with a seaborne landing on the coast of Belgium at Nieuport, he would capture the high ground at Passchendaele which was the key to the whole area. This would allow the cavalry to be released in open country and sweep all before them to the coast.
Haig, who had been trained as a caval .....
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Sports And Competition In Ancient Greece
.... protect Games-goers from assault and lasted three months.
The competitions were open only to honorable Greek men, and lasted five days. On the first day of the Games the athletes and the judges swore that they would compete and judge honestly. On the second, third, and fourth day the different contests were held. The main event at Olympia was the stadion or single-course race, and the winner of that race gave his name to the Olympiad. On the fifth day, at the conclusion of the Games, the victors were awarded a crown of wild olive leaves. The olive crown was the greatest honor for the contestant and also for his family and his c .....
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