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Assination Of Jfk 2
... was said to have used was set up for someone that was left handed. From the window he was supposedly perched at their was a huge tree blocking his vision. Oswald was also said to be a very poor shot when he was in the Marines. Whoever the gunmen were, they fired their five to six shots very accurately. The fatal head wound shown the presidents head to have moved back and to left indicating that the shot came from the front. Oswald was behind the president and could not have inflicted that wound. Moments prior to the shooting Oswald was on the second floor of the building drinking a Coke. When he was confronted in the building after the shooting he was said to have ...
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Armenian Genocide
... Asia, and Africa. It has been conquered by King Darius I of Persia in
521 B.C., by Media in 612 B.C., by King Cyrus of Persia in 549 B.C., by
Alexander the Great, by King Antiochos III of Syria in 212 B.C., By the Arabs
in 642 A.D., by the Mongols in 1240, by the Ottoman Empire in the 16th
century, and most recently by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
1922. During most of the time in between the Armenians had their
independence. Despite or perhaps because of the constant warfare and conquest
of that region and the oppression that the Armenians have faced over time they
have developed into a "… strong-willed people, self reliant and fi ...
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The Treaty Of Trianon
... over the causes leading to the actual treaty which was adopted. In light of recently revealed information and increased information transfer, one can fabricate a pretty accurate account of the events and their causes leading up to the signing of and the ramifications which it entailed. There were many problems that were a direct result of this treaty, and now we may be able to accurately describe why. The problem of newly drawn borders, new and unique "nation-states", and ethnic minorities was not just a product of internal dispute in the areas effected, but also of external factors and wishes to a large extent. There were many different factors in the format ...
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Arab-Israeli Conflicts
... to prevent implementation
of the UN plan.
Jewish forces prevented seizure of most settlements, but Arab
guerrillas, supported by the Transjordanian Arab Legion under
the command of British officers, besieged Jerusalem. By April,
Haganah, the principal Jewish military group, seized the
offensive, scoring victories against the Arab Liberation Army
in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British military
forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some
commanders assisted one side or the other.
After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been
established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David
B ...
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The Battle Of Midway In The Pacific
... Pearl Harbor, Oahu. The entire atoll is barely six miles in
diameter and consists of Sand and Eastern islands surrounded by a coral reef
enclosing a shallow lagoon. Midway was discovered in 1859 and annexed by the
United States in August 1867. Between 1903 and 1940, it served both as a cable
station on the Honolulu GuamManila underwater telegraph line and as an airport
for the Pan American Airways China Clipper (Miracle 5). In March 1940, after a
report on U.S. Navy Pacific bases declared Midway second only to Pearl Harbor in
importance, construction of a formal naval air station began. Midway Naval Air
Station was placed in commission in August 1941. By that tim ...
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African-Americans In The Civil War
... in 1793 provided a demand for cotton thus increasing the demand for slaves. By the 1800’s slavery was an institution throughout the South, an institution in which slaves had few rights, and could be sold or leased by their owners. They lacked any voice in the government and lived a life of hardship. Considering these circumstances, the slave population never abandoned the desire for freedom or the determination to resist control by the slave owners. The slave's reaction to this desire and determination resulted in outright rebellion and individual acts of defiance. However, historians place the strongest reaction in the enlisting of blacks in the war itself. B ...
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Ku Klux Klan
... largest and most feared "hate group" in the country. The men decided to make a club to help release the stress of the times. The men were all poor and could not afford to make gowns or great costumes for the group, so they decided to use linens. They wore the linens over their backs and put pillowcases on their heads. They also draped the linens over their horses. The was going to ride for the first time. In the beginning, the men wanted to do nothing more than play pranks on people. However, the people were more frightened than they were cheered up. They soon realized what they could do with these fear tactics. The South had turned into a place that was no longer ...
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Industrial Revolution 4
... markets in which the price went down. There were also inventions, such as the steam engine; with this invention and more Britains economics were boosted. Negative effects were that natural resources led to urban squalor (when the city spread out and it was all a mess there was no organization). Enclosure act, which made urban population rise, Britain had lots of capital from colonies, in which the quality of goods went down but the quantity rose. Another negative cause and effect of the industrial revolution was that there was dynamo, variety went down there was more uniformity (in the products) and workers and consumers were abused.
There were two different ...
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FDR
... economy was caused by an uneven distribution of wealth that allowed for luxurious spending and gambling on the stock market, which encouraged large corporations to produce more than could be bought by consumers. A pessimistic Hoover had left the United States in the middle of its worst crisis since the Civil War.
“It seemed as if they (the citizens of the United States) would do anything, if only someone would tell them what to do,” said wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, about the throngs of Americans crowded around their radios listening to President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4th, 1933. He would be the 32nd President.
He had promised a recipe for r ...
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Bangladesh
... Nations in 1974.
Most of lies within the broad delta formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and is exceedingly flat, low-lying, and has annual flooding. Much fertile soil is deposited by the floodwaters. The only significant area of hilly terrain, constituting less than one-tenth of the nation's territory, is the Chittagong. Rivers are an important feature of the landscape in .
The climate of is of the tropical monsoon variety. In all areas about 80 percent of the annual rainfall typically occurs in the monsoon period, which lasts from late May to mid-October. Annual precipitation ranges from about 55 inches along the country's
east central border, to mo ...
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