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- 10751: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... ever really a threat to humans or were they just a figment of our imagination? During the year of 1692 in a small village named Salem, approximately fifty people were hung and one pressed to death due to witchery. These people were all tried and convicted in a court of law, yet what court will allow these people to be convicted of something that is based only on spectral evidence? The ...
- 10752: Native Americans
- ... They were interested mostly in whether there would be enough food, whether the tribe would avoid illness, and whether they would win in war. They gave little thought to notions of reward or punishment after death that are common in other religions. Indians believed in a supernatural force which pervaded all nature. To the Algonquin, this force was manitou. The Iroquois called it orenda, and the Dakota, wakanda. Indians also thought ...
- 10753: The History Of The Black Panther Party
- ... threat to the internal security of the United States”. Their actions included beatings of people and police officers who performed acts of prejudice against them. Sometimes they even raided meetings of the KKK. Despite the death of the organization in 1971, its actions were so controversial that most media erased almost all reference to them (One reason this information was extremely hard to find). The Panthers were formed by Huey P ...
- 10754: Assimilation of the Native Americans
- ... one of the most monstrous acts of cruelty that the Europeans imposed on Natives. The potlatch was the way Natives governed themselves. Every important event that occurred in Native society resulted in a potlatch. Birth, Death, marriage, shame, settlement, and victory feasts were all common practice. The purpose of having a feast was to resolve a problem, tragedy, or celebrate a joyous event. In the feast hall, the participants were seated ...
- 10755: The Trail of Tears
- ... Chief Charles Hicks described, in 1838, the emotions that must have been felt after the mistreatment and the abuse that was wrought upon the Cherokee Indians. It was a trail of blood, a trail of death, but ultimately it was known as the "Trail of Tears". In this account of the relocation of the Cherokee Nation we are trying to be as unbiased as possible. It’s the War of 1812 ...
- 10756: Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear Bomb
- ... they, individually, and those whom they love are in imminent danger of perishing agonizingly. And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue... this hope is illusory." From before 1920 until his death, Einstein struggled to find laws of physics far more general than any known before. In his theory of relativity, the force of gravity had become an expression of the geometry of space and time. The ...
- 10757: Why the North Won the Civil War
- ... the veritable lifelines of any army, traced paths all across the Northern countryside but left the South isolated, outdated, developed in the form of economic colonialism. The Confederates were and starving (See Appendices). The final death knell for a modern South all too willing to sell what little raw materials they possessed to Northern Industry for any profit they could get. Little did they know, "King Cotton" could buy them time ...
- 10758: The Civil War
- ... in the Black Hawk War, which was the last Indian and White Man War east of the Mississippi River. After that he married the daughter of Zachary Taylor, Sarah Kneex Taylor. After his wife's death in September of 1835, Jefferson bought a plantation in Mississippi and enters politics. In 1845, he married again to Varina Howell and became a congressman to the States Rights as a Democrat. Then Jefferson joined ...
- 10759: Early Flight
- ... two of them being the Wright Brothers. Although a great scientist, many of his figures and theories were proven to be wrong. His tandem wing concept did not seem to catch on, but after his death, on February 27, 1906, one thing cannot be denied, and that is that Langley did have the first steam and engine powered aircraft to sustain flight. References: Gibbs-Smith, Aviation: An Historical Survey (New York ...
- 10760: Native American Experiences During King Philip's War
- ... a will all his own while no one ever questioned Mary Rolandson’s will. Why? Because of the mores of the society of that time. A male if captured by the Indians should surely choose death rather than captivity. A women, however since she already surrendered her whole will to God and her husband, should let God decide if captivity is best. To some degree Rolandson’s narrative seems trustworthy of ...
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