The Irish Republican Army And British Rule
.... street fighting took place in Dublin. Approximately a
thousand Irish men and women set out to capture Irelands freedom on that
April morning. Within six days the rising ended. The Irish had to
surrender 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 coul .....
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The Root Of Western Civilization
.... It formed their bases of living (Fenton 34).
The Christians were using maintainable operations. Many people who had
learned about it through missionaries were following this religion. The
missionaries 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
dominat .....
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Russian Revolution Of 1917
.... against the powerful Germany. russian manpower was
virtually hard to fight. Russian industry, however, lacked the capacity to
arm, equip, and supply the the 15 million men who were sent into the war.
Factories 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 did .....
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The Causes Of The Holocaust
.... (Allen 57). Germany also lost all of its colonies overseas. It had
to give back provinces to France, Belgium, and Denmark. France got German
coal mines and Gda sk, now a city in Poland, became 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 .....
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Iwo Jima
.... important leaders for the
Japanese. He was in charge of defending the one of the most important
positions on Iwo Jima, Mt. Suribachi. Tadamishi lost the mountain but
still remained fighting the U.S. 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 batt .....
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The History Of Stonehenge
.... during this time frame. In the early stages of Stonehenge I the
first circular ditch or moat was dug around 2750 BC with the use of crude
instruments such as bones and stones. This ditch was built with 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 p .....
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19th Century Romanticism In Europe
.... (they found that the
orderly, mechanistic universe that the Science thrived under was too
narrow-minded, systematic and downright heartless in terms of feeling or
emotional thought) and it was men 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 resurg .....
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Castles: Seen By The Light Of A Thousand Candles
.... very earliest castles were made of timber-- quick, easy, and inexpensive compared to older castles. Unfortunately, they were vulnerable to boring, battering, and (most dangerously) burning, so the 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 .....
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Attack Of The Normans In 1066
.... the Picts in Scotland. Whatever motivated them and however they came, the various groups that settled over the course of the next few decades were not a single, homogenous unit, although most--perhaps 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 .....
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Auschwitz
.... called Auschwitz III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the 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, a .....
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The Battle Of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
.... and capture the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge from the enemy. The German position in Belgium would be outflanked and their industrial heartland in the Ruhr would be under threat.
U-boats were operating 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 t .....
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Sports And Competition In Ancient Greece
.... the Games, special messengers would set off in every direction to announce the beginning of a sacred truce. All disputes and warfare among the city-states were then suspended. The sacred truce was to 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 wer .....
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The Great Purge Of Russia By Stalin
.... are many people in Russia who don’t agree with Stalin or any of his policies. This upset the leader and he wanted to crush this opposition the only way he knew how-- terror. The program of terror he began was called “The Great Purge”. He even formed a secret police.
These actions spread fear throughout Russia. He eliminated anyone who gave a threat to his power. These people, some innocent, were sent to labor camps or even killed. The victims included thousands of old communist Bolsheviks who had .....
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The Cold War: Conflicting Aims And Policies Of Rival Powers
.... of antagonistic relations. Another form of aggression that angered the Americans was Stalin's refusal to hold free elections in Eastern Europe, while he covertly set up their governments to act as puppet satellites, forming a protective barrier around the U.S.S.R. The Soviets' reluctance to reunify Korea and the strong Communist atmosphere in North Korea also disgruntled Americans and hurt diplomatic relations. Overall, each step that the Soviet Union took to strengthen its power and the power of the Com .....
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New Spain Essay
.... who weren't "in" did not have the same choices, opportunities, or advantages as the people of high status. These are among the reasons that the statement "After discovery and settlement, an individual in New Spain had even fewer choices and opportunities than that person would have had in his or her original culture." is absolutely true.
When the situation in New Spain is viewed from the political aspect, the phrase "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" comes to mind. The conquistadors figured that s .....
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