The Rise And Fall Of Hitlers Reich
.... He did well enough to get by in some of his courses but
had no time for subjects that did not interest him. Years later, his former
school mates would remember how Adolf would taunt his teachers and draw sketches
of them in his school notebooks. Forty years later, in the sessions at his
headquarters which produced the record of his table talk, Hitler recalled
several times the teachers of his school days with contempt. "They had no
sympathy with youth. Their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into
erudite apes themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality,
they persecuted him relentlessly".
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War In The Falklands
.... it. No
agreements could be made.
Fact:
The war of the Falklands was a perfect opportunity to unleash
state of the art weapons on the opponents.
Later, after the first invasions, some messages went out over the radios.
The first ones told people of a small invasion, then they began broadcasting
from live sights, complete with gun fire in the background.
There were a lot of battles that went on between the British and
the Argentineans. The British won some, and the Argentineans won others. They
were all fighting for the Falklands. These were a group of small islands that
were all bunched up. You cou .....
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World War II
.... and the U.S. congress had
different views about isolationism. Roosevelt was not an isolationist, and was
concerned about what was happening. Congress, on the other hand, was not as
concerned. For example, Roosevelt could have eased European tensions somewhat
by wiping out allied war debts. Congress, however, would not go along with such
a thing.
As time went by, the crisis in Europe continued to deepen. Hitler had
started to become more aggressive. In 1938, Germany invaded Austria, and
annexed it two days later. Later, Germany set its sights on Czechoslovakia.
Hitler called Czechoslovakia's president, Emil Hacha, to B .....
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The Aztec Empire History
.... develop more solid land for building homes in
this marshy land. Canals were also cut out through the marsh so that a
typical Aztec home had its back to a canal with a canoe tied at the door.
In the early 1400s, Tenochtitlan joined with Texcoco and Tlacopan, two
other major cities in the Valley of Mexico. Tenochtitlan became the most
powerful member of the alliance. Montezuma I ruled from 1440 to 1469 and
conquered large areas to the east and to the south. Montezuma's successors
expanded the empire until it extended between what is now Guatemala and
the Mexican State of San Luis Potosi. Montezuma II became emperor in 1502
when the A .....
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
.... governors; and, in
typical medieval fashion, these bans took advantage of any weakness of the
central monarchy to carve out territories for themselves.
In the early 14th c., the ban of Croatia was Pavao (Paul) Subic of
Brebir or Breberio (a town in Dalmatia which was given to the family in
1222): his father and grandfather were counts or Trau or Trogir, his
cousins were counts of Spalato or Split. This p owerful man titles himself
ban of Croatia and dominus Bosniae, and appoints his brother Mladen I
Subic (1302-04) and later his eldest son Mladen II (1312-14) as ban of
Bosnia. His second son Georg was count of Trau and Split, .....
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Life In The 1900s
.... was pulled by horses to the cemetery when somebody
died. Farmers used them to pull their ploughs while town dwellers kept
them for transportation around town. Horses puled delivery wagons for
businesses such as bakery, dairy, and coal company. Horses pulled fire
engines through the streets in a fire emergency.
The bicycle was widely accepted by canadians because of its easy maintence
compared to a horse. The bike allowed an option of transportation. The
bicycle also gave a sense of freedom to virtually anybody willing to learn.
Henry Ford revolutionized the world we live in by inventing the "horseless
carriage", if it had no .....
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Bombing Of Dresdon
.... areas would destroy the homes of 4,000-8,000 people. The
report also stated that there was a population of 22 million people in
fifty-eight of the major cities in Germany. Lindemann claimed that a
nation of refugees could be the result of strategic air attacks. It is
wildly believed among scholars that the information cont.ained in this
report was the basis of the attack on Dresden.
Lindemann¦s figures were correct, but his thinking was immoral
and inhumane. The people to whom his statistics referred so objectively
were innocent civilians, more than half of them women and children. The
assault upon them was nothing more .....
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Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb
.... to have been Moses' nemesis in
the book of Exodus.
The Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just
across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It is never exactly been off the
beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums:
graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Greek and Roman travelers
stopped here to gaze at the wall paintings and hieroglyphics that were
already old long before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have been
coming for centuries too. Napoleon brought his own team of excavators when
he invaded in 1798, and a series of expeditions in 19th and early 20th
centuries uncover .....
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The Evolution Of The World
.... center, each
based on a different religion.
Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Greeks theorized
that the earth was a globe. But after that, there was a period in history
called "The Great Interruption." This period was categorized by a complete
silence where people in general, forgot about the issue of whether the
earth was flat or whether it was a globe. Another reason that brought the
theories of a globular world to rest was because the priests told the
general public that the earth was flat. Priests such as St. Augustine and
others invented the Antipode theory, which stated that a world shaped like
a globe is .....
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French Revolution
.... faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were jealoous of
their privileged posistion. Altought they were not completely unwilling to
contribute some additional taxes, they never understood how grave the
economis crisis was. They say the crises as only some form of financial
corruption that could be explained away by firing the king's finace
ministers. The libiral ideas of the French Enlightenment had been absorbed
by some of the clergy and the nobility but only by a very few. The upper
classes in France in 1789 were more jealous of their privileg .....
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A "Golden Age" For Athens?
.... Persian
War so Pericles rebuilt temples, public grounds, and other impressive
structures. One of the most famous structures to result from Pericles'
building project was the Parthenon. The Parthenon and other such
structures re-established Athens's glory and while some Athenians
criticized the projects as too lavish, most Athenians enjoyed the benefits
of the program. A major benefit to the Athenian people was that there was
an abundance of work in the polis.
The 5th century BCE was also an important time for Athenian
thought. "Sophists," paid teachers, taught rhetoric amongst other subjects
to wealthy Athenian citizens. The Soph .....
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The Great Pyramid
.... and south walls each have a small hole a few centimeters square
about 1 meter from the floor. These lead into narrow channels that
originally opened on the exterior of the pyramid. At the juncture of the
ascending and horizontal passage is an opening of a shaft which descends
to a depth of 60 meters. It opens into the lower part of the descending
passage, close to the unfinished, underground chamber, and is believed to
have been an escape shaft for the workmen who filed the ascending passage
with huge stones after the king's funeral.
From the horizontal passage the Grand Gallery, which leads to the king's
chamber, starts. It .....
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