The Aborigines
.... above the surrounding desert. After that the next destination was Ayers Rock which is a large boulder. Then the last destination was Mount Olga. This is a grouping of large round-toped pillars. Most of these pillars were more than five hundred feet high. Some were over 1000 feet high. One morning the scientist awoke and heard noise from behind a small rock formation and when he checked it out he saw a group of young Aborigines boys painting each others bodies with coal, chalk, and red ocher. They were getting ready for the celebration of the mountain devil. This was a ceremony for only young men none of the women or elde .....
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The End Of World War Two
.... "by the beginning of September, 1944, Japan was almost completely defeated through a practically complete sea and air blockade.
In May of 1945, the surrender of Germany freed the Allies to focus their troops and resources on their final enemy, the Japanese. And on August, the sixth, 1945, after many debate with Scientists in Chicago, the ruthless Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima. The Chicago scientists were heavily against the unrestricted use of the atomic bomb, they recommended that the best demonstration of the new weapon was to drop it on a barren island or desert, before the eyes of the enem .....
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The Holocaust
.... Jews were progressively forced out of the economy of Germany, their assets turned over to the government and the German public.
Other forms of degradation were pogroms, or organized demonstrations against Jews. The first, and most infamous, of these pogroms was Krystallnacht, or "The night of broken glass". This pogrom was prompted by the assassination of Ernst von Rath, a German diplomat, by Herschel Grymozpan in Paris on November 7th, 1938. Two days later, an act of retaliation was organized by Joseph Gobbels to attack Jews in Germany. On the nights of November 9th and 10th, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 175 sy .....
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The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs On Japan
.... when completed would work. By the end of 1944 a list of possible targets in Japan had been selected, and a B-29 squadron was trained for the specific job of delivering the bomb. [3] It was also necessary to inform certain commanders in the Pacific about the project, and on December 30, 1944 Major General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan District, “recommended that this be done”. [4]
After President Roosevelt’s death, it fell to Stimon to brief the new President about the atomic weapon. At a White House meeting on April 25 he outlined the history and status of the program and predicted that “within four months we shall in al .....
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Vietnam War
.... rebellion in the South while the NFL was in the North Vietnam's team.
In 1940, the Japanese troops invaded French Indochina. Then the Vietnamese nationalists called the Viet Minh, began guerrilla warfare against Japan which got the US involved. The Viet Minh troops rescued US pilots that were down, located Japanese prison camps, and helped US prisoners escape, also providing advice and leadership to the Office of Strategic Services. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Viet Minh and was made a special OSS agent. When the Japanese signed a surrender form on September 2, 1945, Ho used the occasion to declare the independence of Vi .....
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Battle Of The Bulge
.... the sound of tanks and trucks coming from the German side. But the officers told them it was just the sound of the Germans playing the sound on the phonograph records.
At 5:30AM on December 6, 1944 they found out they were wrong when eight German armored divisions and thirteen German infantry division launched an all out attack on five divisions of the U.S. first army. At least 657 light, medium, and heavy guns and Howitzers. As well as 340 multiple-rocket launchers were fired on American positions. We surrendered.
Americans were out numbered ten to one in places. They were so badly out numbered that they started aband .....
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Columbus's Voyage
.... the ship's rail a measured distance apart. When the flotsam passed the forward mark, the pilot would start a quick chant, and when it passed the aft mark, the pilot would stop chanting. (The exact words to such a chant are part of a lost oral tradition of medieval navigation). The pilot would note the last syllable reached in the chant, and he had a mnemonic that would convert that syllable into a speed in miles per hour. This method would not work when the ship was moving very slowly, since the chant would run to the end before the flotsam had reached the aft mark.
Speed (and distance) was measured every hour. The officer o .....
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The Catholic Church And The Middle Ages
.... in Ulrich Zwingli, who eventually sought an alliance with Luther and the German reformers, and especially in John Calvin, whose Institutes of the Christian Religion became the most influential summary of the new theology. On most important doctrines, Calvin was in agreement with Luther. Calvin differed from Luther in his belief in the concept of predestination, derived from his belief in God’s supreme authority. This concept became the central focus of succeeding generations of Calvinists. One of the more radical Reformation groups, the Anabaptists, set themselves against other Protestants as well as against Rome, rejecting s .....
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Hitler's Impact On Germany
.... financial troubles, creating a suitable environment for anyone to start a revolution. Itˇ¦s the start of the so called "Depressionˇ¨. Germany was forced to pay 33 billion dollars for the damages caused during the first World War.
By November of 1923, the Nazi Party already has 55,000 faithful followers and was by far the most organised and favoured of the many other groups competing for power. During this time, Hitler had planned a Nazi revolution. Unfortunately his plan back-fired leading to his trial for treason. When asked to defend himself, he instantly became internationally famous, even though he was found guilty a .....
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The French Revolution
.... discontent among the lower and middle classes in France. By law, society was divided in to three groups called estates. The first estate was made of up clergy, nobles comprised the second and the rest of the citizens, the third estate.
The third estate resented certain advantages of the first two estates. The clergy and nobles did not have to pay most taxes. The third estate, especially the peasants, had to provide almost all the country's tax revenue. Many members of the middle class were also worried by their social status. They were among the most important people in French society but were not recognized as such beca .....
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The End Of The First World War
.... countries made the major decisions for all the allies. President Wilson ranted to make special demands on the allies, along with their commitments to each other. The treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The United States did not ratify this agreement but did sign a separate treaty with Germany in June of 1921.
By the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was required to abolish all military service. Germany also had to reduce her military army to 100,000 people, which are not very many men. Germany could not have any military on the left bank of the Rhine River and the la .....
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The Mongol Invasion Of China
.... Temujin, his mother, and several brothers and half brothers. This had an effect on him which, although difficult, would lead Temujin at the age of forty, after having consolidating several clans, to be elected Grand Khan of the Mongols in 1206. Although he had a difficult start, when he died twenty years latter, his rule extended from the Caspian to the northern coast of China. Genghis Khan was perhaps one of the greatest military innovators in human history, and his armies were perhaps the best-trained horsemen in all of history. His men fought on horseback with incredible competency; they could hit their targets with supe .....
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