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Octavian Augustus
Words: 2253 - Pages: 9.... advisors, controlled public finances and handled all diplomatic dealings with other states. The assemblies were the various public meetings where citizens voted on laws and public office (Hanes 1997). Magistrates were the elected officials who put the laws into practice. The most important of these magistrates were the consuls. The two consuls, each elected for one year, acted as the chief executives of the state. Censors were also very important magistrates. Censors were elected every five years to take a census and record the wealth of the people. Censors also had two other very important jobs. The first was to appoint candidates for the .....
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Levi Strauss
Words: 816 - Pages: 3.... started a dry goods business called J. Strauss Brother & Co.
In 1848 Levi moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he sold goods from his brother's store. In 1853 he returned to New York upon hearing gold had been discovered in California. He persuaded his two brothers to provide him with a supply of silk, cloth, and a few luxury items, which he planned to sell in San Francisco. He also took a supply of canvas, which he intended to use to make tents, and wagon covers to sell to prospectors who were crossing the continent. In January of 1853 Levi became a United States citizen, and by March of the same year he arrived in San Franc .....
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Francios Rabelias
Words: 835 - Pages: 4.... with human welfare, this is the reason why it is represented in there works. The one I am going to focus on is .
Rabelias was a writer. Over time many of the information we have about him as been lost or destroyed. "We have most of his works, but it is believed there is more. " Below I have listed a believed chronology of Rabelias, it may have inaccurate due the lack of information on Rabelias.
"1494 Now the Generally accepted date of Rabelias’s birth, although at times it has
been published back as far as 1483. Born at La Deviniere, a family
property near Chinon, where his father, Antoino Rabelias, wa .....
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Benito Mussolini
Words: 901 - Pages: 4.... that Gripped Italy after the war Mussolini’s
influence grew swiftly. Mussolini and other war veterans founded
Fasci di Combattimento in March of 1919. This Nationalistic
antisocialist movement attracted much of the lower middle class and
took its name from the Fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman
discipline. The Fascist movement grew rapidly in the 1920’s,
spreading through the countryside where it’s Black Shirt Militia won
support of the land owners and attacked peasant leagues of Socialist
Supporters. To take advantage of the opportunity Fascism shed it’s
initial Republicanism gainin .....
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The Biography Of Husband E. Kimmel
Words: 823 - Pages: 3.... then a Lt. Cmdr., sustained light injuries to his left arm.
Once he transferred to a shore command in the domestic U.S., he longed to return to the sea and eventually found himself stationed in Hawaii. When the depression hit in the early 30's, he had finally rose to the position of Captain and then later to Commodore. He maintained his position as an aide to the Fleet command until his superiors retired or were sent into the Atlantic at the onset of World War II.
Once he entered the position of Fleet Commander, he tried to maintain the efficiency of the fleet by ordering training maneuvers for preparedness conditioning. It was at this t .....
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Manet
Words: 1154 - Pages: 5.... level of reverence as that which his father possessed.
However, it is the actions of the artists' youth, which many therapists believe is the key to understanding the ambiguous portrayal of woman within his paintings, throw out his career. It was during the late 1850’s when was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, had openly admitted in letters to his friends the extend to which he found their tropical beauty alluring. Yet, is was not until returned to France that he reveled the true extent of his relationships with these girls, and confessed to the fact that he had been using his time to re .....
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The American Constitution
Words: 2847 - Pages: 11.... collect taxes, pay a large public debt, and regulate trade among themselves. They also had to deal with Indian tribes and negotiate with other governments. Leading statesmen, such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, began to discuss the creation of a strong national government under a new constitution.
The United States is a republic that operates under a federalist system. The national government had specific enumerated powers, and the fifty states retain substantial endowment over their citizens and their residents. Both the national government and the state government are divided into three different branches, executive, legi .....
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Daniel Webster
Words: 691 - Pages: 3.... Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v.
Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding
skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to
Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts.
New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National
Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing
federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had
shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Web .....
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The Life Of A Jamestown Colonist
Words: 2527 - Pages: 10.... of food, we had no consistent leaders, and our relationship with the Algonquians was tenuous.
First of all, my name is Anne Williams. I was one the first people to come to Jamestown. As a child in the mid-1500’s, I remember my parents talking about how nervous they were that Spain seemed to be gaining such a foothold in the New World. No one in England liked the fact that Spain was the most powerful country in Europe. The king decided to explore in an effort to find a northwest passage to Asia without going around Asia. England also wanted to steal some of Spain’s riches, or “singe the King of Spain’s beard,” as we referred to t .....
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Louis Leakey
Words: 2457 - Pages: 9.... after reading the account of stone-age men entitled "Days Before History" he was hooked. After reading about the arrowheads and axeheads created by these people, Louis began collecting and classifying as many pieces of obsidian flakes and tools as he could find. After confirmation by a prehistory expert that these were truly stone tools of ancient Africans, truly links to the past, Leakey knew that the rest of his life would be devoted towards discovering the secrets of the prehistoric ancestors of humankind.
Despite not being accustomed to the school structure back in England and the accompanying problems he had in public school, .....
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