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A Consise History Of Germany
Words: 4697 - Pages: 18.... and began building Prussia into a great power.
1806
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine.
1815
The German Confederation was formed at the Congress of Vienna.
1848
Revolutions swept across Germany. The first German national assembly met at Frankfurt in the hopes of creating a more united country.
1871
Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck realized his dream of a united Germany as the German Empire was founded.
1918-1919
Germany was forced to accept harsh terms under the Treaty of Versailles that brought an end to World War I. The Weimar Republic was founded.
1933
Adolf H .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Words: 926 - Pages: 4.... time(Hacker 19). At Harvard, his social activities took preference over his academic pursuit and the In 1903 Roosevelt graduated from Harvard and entered the Columbia Law School. He dropped out in his third year after passing the New York bar examination(Hacker 24). Soon after, Roosevelt started practicing law with a New York law firm. While still in law school, Roosevelt met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt a distant cousin, only a few years younger than him(Alsop 28). They were married on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, 1905(Freidel 13). He was twenty-three and she was twenty-one. Her fathe A few years later in 1910, Roosevelt accepted the Democr .....
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History Of The Guitar
Words: 2133 - Pages: 8.... Lute family came two groups. The lutes proper which had rounded backs and the guitar type instruments with their flat backs.
Guitar-shaped instruments appear in stone bas-relief sculptures of the hittites in northern Syria and Asia Minor from as far back as 1350 B.C.
The word guitar also has origins in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. The earliest European guitars did have four courses of gut strings. A
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course is a pair of strings tuned in unison. These early guitars were distinguished from lutes by body sides that curved inward to for .....
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Kosovo
Words: 689 - Pages: 3.... provided, were relegated to the status of a despised minority within Serbia
The Albanians of have held free elections in which they have chosen their leadership and have expressed their determination for the independence of in the 1991 referendum, and the Kosovar parliament has declared the independence of , first from Serbia, then from the Yugoslav federation, after its disintegration.
The present crisis began in early 1998 when fighting broke out, resulting in the displacement of some 300,000 people. A cease-fire was agreed in October 1998, which enabled refugees to find shelter. A Verification Mission was deployed under the Organ .....
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Holocaust
Words: 713 - Pages: 3.... make it unique. Mass murder, sometimes on a scale of millions and targeting specific religious, ethnic, or social groups, has occurred in history. Governments other than that of Nazi Germany have used camp systems and technology to serve deadly plans, and the Jews have been persecuted throughout much of history. However, the may be considered unique for two main reasons: 1) unlike their policies toward other groups, the Nazis sought to murder every Jew everywhere, regardless of age, gender, beliefs, or actions, and they invoked a modern government bureaucracy to accomplish their goal; and 2) the Nazi leadership held that ridding the wor .....
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RISE AND FALL OF THE HITLER REICHT
Words: 1157 - Pages: 5.... September 1907, Hitler left home taking with him all the money
left to him by his father, who had died a few years earlier. The money
would preliminary examination, the applicant was asked to submit drawings.
Biblical drawings were most preferred. Hitler's drawings were returned
saying they were "too wooden and too lifeless." He was rejected. He tried
three months later and did not get pa Hitler moved into an apartment with
his friend in Vienna. He pretended to be a student living off his
relatives money. He read many books and sat in on the Austrian government
sessions . Hitler speaks of his life in Vienna as "five years in whi .....
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Life In Victorian England
Words: 1347 - Pages: 5.... class shared one room with eight
people and they had very little to eat. It is extremely depressing to
imagine that a large family could be crowded into one room where on some
nights the only thing they had to eat was bread. People in the lower class
would only receive jobs that had no skills involved; some of these jobs
were only seasonal. The lower class would have jobs such as picking cotton
in a cotton field, working in factories, or search sewers for what they
could find. Some parents made children stay up until 11 or 12 PM to finish
up their stitching. Both boys and girls had to work at a young age because
they had the necessity .....
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American Impressionism
Words: 952 - Pages: 4.... in any other country? Wherein lay the Impressionist appeal? These are important questions. For some time during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American artists had scoffed at European art as too stuffy and urbane. The Americans drew inspiration from the beauty of their native landscape, turning to naturalist and romantic styles to portray the land they loved. The Literary World wrote, “What comparison is there between the garden landscapes of England or France and the noble scenery of the Hudson, or the wild witchery of some of our unpolluted lakes and streams? One is man’s nature, the other, God’s.& .....
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Edgar Degas-en Francais
Words: 568 - Pages: 3.... d’ offre. Apres qu’il soit parti de l’ecole il a continue le souhait de son pere et a commence a etudier la loi. Apres un an de ceci il a quitte pour se concentrer sur devenir un artiste reussi. Son pere a ete impressionne de sa determination et lui a permis de continuer sur son formation artistique. Degas est alors entre dans le studio de Louis Lamothe, un artiste qui a etudie avec Ingres.
Degas etait seulement dans l’atelier Lamothe pendant une annee mais ceci a commence son respect profond pour Ingres. Il a alors etudie d’Ecole des Beaux Arts a Paris. Degas plus tard etudie dans l’auvent et avez puis commence l’etu .....
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Effectiveness Of The Articles
Words: 399 - Pages: 2.... of. In the document, the U.S. attempted to remove British troops off of U.S. soil and had quite a time trying to do so. The British had no respect for the U.S. government because of the little power it had, all of the power was in the hands of the states. The thirteen states acted like thirteen separate nations as they, for the most part, functioned as they pleased.
Document G reveals the discontent of the people in the ineffectiveness of their national government under the Articles of Confederation. John Jay (Secretary of Foreign Affairs and great international negotiator), expresses this discontent of the people through a letter of c .....
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