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The Dreyfus Affair And Its Cause
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1008.... were still a few minds who believed in Dreyfus's innocence, such
as, his wife and brother; Golgar Demange, a highly respected devout
catholic; and even Captain George Picquart.(5) George Picquart was one of
the main figures in the unravelling of the Dreyfus affair, he was the
officer asked by his supervisor to look into Dreyfus's motives. Picquart
found many flaws and peculiar things,in his research and in March 1896
another letter which they called the "petit bleu," was intercepted by
French intelligence. This puzzled Picquart, an investigation was now to be
ordered on Es .....
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Ben Quarles Negro In The Revol
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1334.... come.
America’s first war, its war for independence from Great Britain was a great
accomplishment. This achievement could have been performed if not for the black soldiers in the armies. The first American to shed blood in the revolution that freed America from British rule was Crispus Attucks. Attucks along with four white men was killed in the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. Even though Attucks was a fugitive slave running from his master, he was still willing to fight against England along with other whites and give the ultimate sacrifice, his life, for freedom .....
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The Assyrians
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1019.... Political developments Brought this enterprise to an end in
1750 BC. Assyria lost its independence to a dynasty of Amorite. Then Hammurabi
of Babylon took over and established himself ruler of Assyria. The collapse of
Hammurabi's Old Babylonian dynasty gave Assyria only temporary relief. It soon
fell under the control of the Mitanni, until that state was destroyed by the
Hittites c.1350 BC.
The Early Neo-Assyrian Period (c.1200-600 BC)
After the collapse of Mittanni, Assyria regained its independence and was able
to hold it thanks to the weakness of its neighbors. The .....
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The Holocaust
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 720.... The nutrition was
worse than inadequate and the results being the well-known
"musselmen": skeletons covered by skin. After the Jews in
prison camps were freed, their diseases were treated as well as
could be treated. Premature aging was one of the most
prominent disabling effects of survivors. Digestive tract
diseases were also very common because of the emotional
disturbances and inadequate diet during their incarceration. The
experience also placed them at risk of coronary diseases,
cerebrovascular diseases, and arteriosclerosis. All of this was
cons .....
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Dionysus
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1488.... The most important festival, the Greater Dionysia, was held in Athens for five days each spring. It was for this celebration that the Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote their great tragedies. Also, after the 5th century BC, Dionysus was known to the Greeks as Bacchus.
Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. He is the only god to have a mortal parent. The birth of Dionysus began when Zeus came to Semele in the night, invisible, felt only as a divine presence. Semele was pleased to be a lover of a god, even though she did not know which one. Word soon .....
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Atomic Bomb In World War 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 366.... a supersonic shock wave that is felt
as a highly destructive high pressure air blast, which can easily demolish
tall buildings, not to mention people. After the initial blast radiation
covers the area, causing people, animals, and structures to practically disintegrate. Even years afterwards people were still dying and having
health problems related to the radiation they were exposed to long before.
There were many people that were strongly opposed to the using of
nuclear weapons on Japan. But invading the is land instead of bombing
would have taken perhaps 1 .....
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The Hundred Years' War
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2142.... cousin, Philip of Valois. But this left two other male cousins equally deserving of the crown; Charles, King of Navarre and Edward III, King of England.Edward III claimed that he himself was deserving of the throne because his mother was the sister of the late French king, while Philip VI was only a cousin. But according to French law, no women could inherit the throne, nor could the crown be inherited through a woman.
"Philip of Valois chances of becoming King of France had been remote and he had not been brought up as the future lieutenant of God on Earth. Philip VI spent m .....
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Hitler Youth
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 824.... the authority of the . So most of the recruitment for the Youth Movement was forced. Some groups did join willing though, but groups like The Catholic Youth Organization held out for as long as three years.
Schirach soon organized Hitler’s Youth Movement into a precise running machine. He set up age brackets as well as a Hitlers youth for girls called the BDM(Bund Deutcher Madel{League of German Girls}). The age brackets for boys started at ten to fourteen were the boys were in the jungvolk, and the boys from fourteen to eighteen were in the HJ(Hitler Jugend{Youth}). The girl .....
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