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Ancient Rome
Number of pages: 16 | Number of words: 4373.... Aeneas acquired a boat and sailed around the Mediterranean. He bounced around from Asia Minor to Greece to Crete looking for a place to found a new Troy, but he couldn't find a satisfactory place. As told by Homer in the Aeneid, Aeneas was cared for by the gods. Venus, in particular, was very worried about him. She asked Jupiter, king of the gods about him, and he said this:
"Since you are so consumed with anxiety for Aeneas, I shall turn forward far
The hidden pages of fate and speak of the future. He shall conduct a great campaign for you. And conquer all Italy and its haugh .....
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Biography Of Eugene Victor Deb
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 784.... for his open-handed and genuine manner. By 1872 he was promoted to locomotive fireman in Terre Haute. In 1874 Eugene became a clerk in a wholesale grocery business, helping to found the next year the first local lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman.
Finally, in the autumn of 1874, Eugene left his job after one of his friends slipped under a locomotive and was killed.
In July 1877, the railroad workers revolted against their working conditions; employers ignored their revolt and made things worse: Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio cut their wages. Thousands of .....
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Napoleon And The Battle Of Moscow
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1128.... third group, also of about 80,000 men, led by Napoleon’s brother Jerome (Lefebvre 311-312). The Russian forces were led by field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov.
In the beginning, the French won most of the battles, using pontoon bridges to cross the numerous rivers and streams. However, as Napoleon advanced deeper into Russian land, his supplies did not. When Napoleon carefully planned his supply trains paths, movements, etc., he did not take into consideration the rough Russian terrain. This great setback caused both troops and horses to starve (Resnick 78).
Napoleon had anothe .....
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The Holocaust - The Way It Was
Number of pages: 18 | Number of words: 4856.... phases to the
Holocaust, the period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, and the period
between 1939 and 1945, the period of war, or more specifically, World War
II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis
came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third
Reich: May 8, 1945.
The idea that the Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended
is a difficult concept, but this is an important point, and one this site
hopes to help bring across. The Holocaust was the extermination of people
not for who they were but .....
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The Truth
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 543.... the authors of the textbooks know that if the students found out the real truth there would be nothing left of nationalism. For most textbooks leave out the early settlers such as the Spanish and the Dutch. These civilizations settled America long before the Pilgrims arrived and with these civilizations came what was to make it easy for the Pilgrims to settle in America – disease. Most of the Native Americans had never but subjected to diseases much less the diseases Europeans brought with them. Killing off most of the Natives, the diseases made it easy for the English to come .....
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The Punic Wars 264 BC -- 146 BC
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 825.... the attack
on them from Carthage.
This war was fought mainly at sea, around Sicily. Carthage was more
superior in this field of fighting. This is because they had fought at sea
before and the Romans did not. Also the Romans did not have a navy. When
the Romans finally started a navy, this reflected in their fighting. For
many years the Carthaginian people were more successful. This is because
they were under the power of Hamilcar. On March 10, 241 BC this would all
change, at the battle of Aegates Island. The Romans beat the Carthaginians
so bad, they appealed for peace. Man .....
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Celtic Invasions
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 399.... extreme desire to conquer is what drove the Celts to their numerous invasions and conquests. First, they conquered the Iberian Peninsula, which is present day Spain. Next, they went on to conquer the Etruscans, and then Rome. The Celtic chieftain Brennos, who invaded Greece and nearly conquered Delphi, was defeated by the Greeks who crushed his army. Another explanation of the outcome of this battle was the natural disasters involved. There was an earthquake and possible flooding at the time. This defeat initiated the downfall of Celtic civilization in Eastern Europe. By .....
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Industrial France And England
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 809.... time. One of the reasons England did so well before the Industrial Revolution was that it had a strong
merchant marine which got the materials that didn't occur naturally on there island. This also allowed them
to gain news of technological advances and soon machines replaced the gape where workers couldn't be
because of the limited work force. And due to England's supremacy of the sea anything they couldn't make
now they could trade for it. This led to a better economy, which fell into the time slot of the industrial
revolution. Through out all of this the clas .....
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