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Czechoslovakia
Number of Words: 1620 / Number of Pages: 6
... as far north as the Danube River, which flows from Germany - through Austria along its border with Slovakia - and then over to Hungary before continuing on to Yugoslavia, and so just misses the Czech lands.) During the Migration of Peoples - roughly from the 3d to the 7th centuries AD - Slav colonization spread westward from the Steppes of the East (probably from Panonia) all the way to the territory of the present-day Czech Republic and up to Poland and down again to Yugoslavia. From probably the sixth century AD on, the Slavic peoples settled, in several waves of migration, into the regions which h ...
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Five Imporant Events Of The 19
Number of Words: 7010 / Number of Pages: 26
... as a threat to his values as a Catholic and to an independent Vietnam. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration fearing Communist takeovers in Southeast Asia saw Ngo Dinh Diem as a Vietnamese nationalist capable of overturning Communist Viet Minh. In 1954 Viet Minh defeated the French and he won control of Northern Vietnam, thus splitting the country in half. Southern Vietnam remained under the control of Emperor Bao Dai, who was supported by the U.S. greatly. The U.S. appointed Ngo Dinh Diem as Prime Minister under Bao Dai. In 1956 elections were held in South Vietnam and Ngo Dinh ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 2013 / Number of Pages: 8
... The second attack upon the city was carried our by
Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s
return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political
opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The
proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political
legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter
memory that long survived.
Caesar left Rome for the province of Asia on the condition that he
divorce his wife because Sulla would only allow him to leave on that
condition. When he heard the news that ...
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Boys In The Hood The Begining
Number of Words: 732 / Number of Pages: 3
... and, “most important (as writer-director Singleton sees it, at any rate) he lives with his father” (Tornquist 1). Brothers Doughboy and Ricky, on the other hand, live with their mother and are not good role models. Doughboy drives a fancy car but doesn’t appear to have a job, and has been in and out of prison. Ricky does a little better, being a talented football player who hopes to go to USC on a scholarship, but who is already a father while in High school at the age of seventeen. Singleton also portrays issues dealing with premarital sex, family, crime, single parent homes, drugs ...
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Civil Rights
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... A. Philip Randoph threatens a massive march on Washington unless the Roosevelt administration takes measures to ensure black employment in defense industries; Roosevelt agrees to establish Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). 1942: The congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is organized in Chicago. 1943: Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause black leaders to ask their followers to be less demanding in asserting their commitment to ; A. Philip Randolph breaks ranks to call for civil disobedience against Jim Crow schools and railroads. 1946: The Supreme Court, in Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virgin ...
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Brief Look At Jewish History
Number of Words: 1159 / Number of Pages: 5
... majority of European Jewry under
the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish
people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from
the main city. Hitler's plan of genocide was carried out with
efficiency. The total number of Jews exterminated has been
calculated at around 5,750,000.
In Warsaw ,where approximately 400,000 Jews had once been
concentrated,was reduced to a population of 60,000. They, virtually
unarmed, resisted the German deportation order and had held back
the regular German troops equipped with flame throwers,armoured
cards, and ...
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Britain And America Revolution
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... the seeds of revolution were sown, merchants used their shipping trade to defy English duties on sugar. As a result of this, additional troops were sent to the colonies to enforce British laws. Later, when the Quartering Act was passed, Americans complained against not only the taxation, but also an infringement on their rights of property. Before the conflict between Britain and France over the Ohio Valley and Canada, America was given practically free reign over its political liberties too. It set up colonial legislatures and citizenship by the act of owning land. Its government system wasn&# ...
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Stonehenge
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... does. For this reason they had to rely on other ways of keeping track of the time during the year. In this particular case the ancient people of England used the for record keeping. "In 1964 the American astronomer Gerald S. Hawkins reported findings obtained by supplying a computer with measurements taken at together with astronomical information based on celestial positions in 1500 BC when was in use."(Encarta, 1) Hawkins believed that the ancient people were able to gather information about the sun and the moon, with accuracy. He believed that was used to predict the seasons by examining ...
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India 2
Number of Words: 2406 / Number of Pages: 9
... 1991 have given new opportunities for Indian business persons and an average of 300 million middle class consumers. Many of the country's fundamentals which includes saving rates (26 percent of GDP) and reserves (now about $24 billion) are healthy. Inflation eased to 7 percent in 1997, and interest rates dropped to between 10 percent and 13 percent. However, the Indian government still needs to restore the early momentum of reform, especially in continuing to reduce the remaining government regulations. Furthermore economic policy changes have not yet significantly increased jobs or reduced the ris ...
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