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an end. In the case of the Roaring Twenties that end came abruptly and unexpectedly. It is easy for one to look back upon the economic situation that lead to the crash and ridicule the experts for not seeing the signs of a potential disaster. But it…
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Carolina officer named W.A. Smith, “a great, dismal forest containing . . . the worst kind of thicket of second-growth trees . . . so thick with small pines and scrub oak, cedar, dogwood and other growth common to the country . . . [that] one…
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up all the troops that he could. Many people didn't have time to be part of the Continental Army because they had families and farms to tend to, most of the men willing to enlist for long periods of time were young and single and had nothing tying…
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the reactor Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was not working properly. When workers tried to fix this problem in reactor 4 by shutting down the its power regulating system and its emergency safety systems, this caused the most serious and…
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Westerner traveled on the Silk Road. He excelled all the other travelers in his determination, his writing, and his influence. His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He reached further than any one before him. Beyond Mongolia to China. He became a…
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there times, they were advanced before any European contacts. Each Empire had its similarities and its differences but none of the empires were exactly the same, but they were all advanced Empires for their time. Even though many people believe that…
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the Jews or - insofar as they excluded a Fuehrer-order - for other central documents. The Wannsee Protocol was rejected. Here second-level men were to be found, here they spoke not of an order, but rather an authorization of Hitler. Characteristically,…
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and influential people in South Africa's long and harsh battle for racial justice. Mandela, born almost 30 years before Biko, spent a lifetime fighting for the freedom of blacks in South Africa, for 25 years, as a political prisoner. Through…
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creates a path for each individual to follow. This path is known as fate and it is an irreversible fact of life. In one of the greatest Greek tragedies, Oedipus the King, Oedipus attempts to alter his own fate to avoid the horrific destiny planned…
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out the world took a wild ride during Hitler’s rise to power. The entire world didn’t think that he would become as powerful as he became. Hitler achieved his power by relying on the nerviness of the world to sit back and allow him to do what he wanted…
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