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- 9451: Berlin Wall 2
- After World War II, the Yalta Conference confirmed that Germany was to be divided into four sectors:the American, British, and French in the west, and the Soviet Union in the east. From June 24, 1948 to May ...
- 9452: Apache And Cherokee Indians
- ... forced into surrender after years of struggle. One leader, Geronimo, was especially hard for the whites to capture. After years of evading white soldiers Geronimo was taken to Florida and treated as a prisoner of war. Government sponsored assimilation saw English forced upon the Apache robbing them of their culture. In 1934 The Indian Recognition Act helped establish the Indian culture as a recognized way of life. This act gave the ... them to be the first major tribe to come in contact with the white men. The Cherokees saw one man, Andrew Jackson, as a sole enemy. Jackson, ignoring, a treaty President Washington had signed, waged war on the Cherokee. Jackson brought some 300 Cherokee to help him at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. After the struggle Jackson turned on the Cherokees once he no longer needed their help. The initial aim ... Supreme Court, ignored this ruling. The Cherokees are then herded into concentration-type camps and are eventually forced onto was would later be known as The Trail of Tears . Andrew Jackson was successful in his war against the Cherokee and eventually turned many Cherokee people against their own leader and against themselves. The film on the Cherokee was the most heart-breaking thus far. This documentary was presented with much ...
- 9453: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... II, however, protected Arab-speaking poets who rubbed shoulders with his own Latin writers (Lindsay 44). Bertrand de Born became famous for writing warmongering songs that "stirred up barons and provoked kings into going to war" (Grunfield "5). Walther von der Vogelwiede attained a unique position among troubadours by transforming "the short poem of proverbial wisdom into a political weapon of satire and patriotism" (Hering '). Wandering troubadours sang most often about ... Florence. "Greek Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Hering, Jack. The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time. New York: Hawthorne Press, '969. Lindfors, Sven. "African Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopia. '996 ed. Lindsay, Jack. The Troubadours and Their World. London: Frederick Muller Limited, '976. Mair, Helen. "Chinese Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Sebastian, Gerald. Music In Time. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, '95". Segal, William. "Greek Drama." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Speaight ...
- 9454: The Social Status of the London Surgeon, 1350-1450
- The Social Status of the London Surgeon, 1350-1450 Many critics' familiarity with the medieval medical community comes from Chaucer's characterization of the Doctor of Physic: "In al this world ne was there noon hym lik, / To speke of phisik and of surgerye."1 But what few critics fail to realize is that there is an important difference between the Doctor's ability to speak ... explain the two sharp increases of documented surgeons during the decades 1410-1420 and 1430-1440. The documented number of surgeons between 1410 and 1420 demonstrates the growing importance of surgeons as a component of war. In 1415, King Henry V indentured Thomas Morstede and fifteen persons, twelve of whom were surgeons (the three others were to be archers) in his campaign against France.9 The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 ...
- 9455: Out Of The Silent Planet By C.
- ... is called the silent planet because there has been no communication from it in years. On the voyage there he is led to believe he will be sacrificed. Instead, the creatures that inhabit the other world reveal extraordinary secrets about the nature of man and the universe to him. Ransom is ultimately sent back to Thulcandra with the two earthlings who had kidnapped him. The book is told in such a ... refused to form themselves into things. Moreover, he new nothing yet well enough to see it: you can not see things till you know roughly what they are. His first impression was a bright, pale world - a water-coloured world out of a child's paint box." Lewis also has a gift for making strong points in his novel without making the reader feel guilty, because he uses such human characters that are filled ...
- 9456: Biography Of Stephen Hawking
- Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School ...
- 9457: Black And Yellow Perils In Col
- ... penalty for any person convicted of the crime of rape or attempt of rape upon a European women or girl", and the formation of citizen militia's in Southern Rhodesia and Kenya in the inter-war period. In addition, it is important to remember that although many reports of sexual assault were untrue, some sexual attacks did take place, predominantly by gangs of disgruntled black men, Mrs Harrison's rape being ... P. Duignan (1962) 2) " Re-inventing Africa" Annie. E. Coombes (1994) 3) " Tensions of Empire" F. Cooper & A. l. Stoler (1997) 4) " Africans- THE HISTORY OF A CONTINENT " J. Iliffe (1995) 5) " Chronicle of the World" D. Mercer (1996) 6) "Imperial leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the colonial context" A. McClintock (1995)
- 9458: Anomalies Are Not Always Wrong
- ... long transvestism has existed and been recognized. Tully also explains that the first report of transsexualism in medical history took place around 1853, yet neither transsexualism nor transvestism were scientifically researched until after the Second World War. Around the 1950's the most famous account of transsexualism, meaning an actual operation, occurred when a Danish man named George Jorgensen was surgically castrated to make him "feel" more like a woman. He also ...
- 9459: Black Death (the Plague)
- ... to, the black death. During this time period the Black Death was a major factor in Europe from when it swept threw from 1300 to 1450. Many people said it was the end of the world because of the plague s effects on the European people and Europe in general. The plague was brought to Europe by cargo from China. In this cargo there were rats that had flea s on them that carried this plague, and this little flea s caused one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of the world. The people of Europe were already in bad times before the plague due to economic depression and agricultural expansion had reached its limits. Then in 1347 the plague struck, once infected by the plague a ... products. With the people standard of living getting higher and the plague finally ending Europe was back on its feet again. This catastrophe was one of the most horrible things to ever happen in the world. During the time period before the plague Europe was not doing very good then the plague came and they were in even worse condition. After the plague Europe started to do very well do ...
- 9460: Bosnia 2
- Bosnia The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina began in 1992. It has left at least a quarter of a million people dead or missing and made refugees of more than half the nation s population. A Treaty was signed on December 14, 1995 in Paris to formally end Bosnian War. It was signed by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia as well as other international heads of state. Bosnian Serb nationalists were absent because they would have been arrested of war crimes and genocide if they came to Paris. France signed the agreement two days after two of its pilots shot down over Bosnia during the summer were released by their Serb captors. France threatened ...
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