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Fort Duquesne Continental Congress
1,107 wordsBorn February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, he was the first son of his father Augustine's second marriage; his mother was the former Mary Ball of Epping Forest. When George was about three, his family moved to Little Hunting Creek on the Potomac, then to Ferry Farm opposite Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock in King George County. In the interim, the powerful Fairfax family of neighboring Belvoir introduced him to the accomplishments and appropriateness of mannered wealth and, in 1748, prov...
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Fur Trade Great Lakes
489 wordsThe Algonquin was a northern tribe that settled in Canada some time around the 1400 s, and now have settled in Quebec and nearby Ontario. The Algonquians history was not exactly a pleasant one they suffered many hardships and obstacles to over come. Samuel de Champlain established the first permanent French settlement on the St. Lawrence at Tadoussac in 1603. Champlain was so impressed with the Algonquin's furs that he explored the St. Lawrence as far west as the Lachine Rapids. Champlain left f...
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Unification Of Italy And Germany
559 wordsBy 1871 both the kingdom of Italy and the empire of Germany were united. Even though both countries used popular trends to that time, both liberalism and nationalism, the process unifying these two countries was very different. The end result was Germany emerging as a strong nation and Italy appropriately, the weaker. Italy's problems started with the fact that it didnt have one main ruler, but two people and a concept, resulting in a different approach to the unification. Gulseppe Mazzini had a...
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Ed Compton Interactive
1,586 wordsHenry Knox was born on July 25, 1750 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son to William and Mary Campbell Knox. His parents were both pioneers from Northern Ireland. Henry was the seventh of ten children. William Knox was a shipmaster that traded among the West Indies. He suffered from money difficulties and mental stress, passing away at the age of fifty. Because of this, Henry gave up school and became the sole support for his mother. 1 At the age of 12, he was employed by a Boston bookseller...
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Lord Of The Rings Middle Earth
1,110 words"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them" (1 LotR II, 2 The Council of Elrond) One of the masters of British Literature, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien has the unique ability to create a fantasy world in which exists a nearly endless supply of parallelisms to reality. By mastering his own world and his own language and becoming one with his fantasy, Tolkien is able to create wonderful symbolism and meaning out of what would otherwise ...
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North And The South Manufactured Goods
695 wordsThe Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1877, was mainly caused by the diverging society between the North and the South. The North and the South had different goals. There were many factors that led to the war and the chief ones were political and economic differences between the North and the South. The Norths aggression to control the South had led to the point where it was intolerable. The issue on slavery was one of the causes of the Civil War. Slavery and slave trades had become a big par...
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King Of The Franks Pope Leo
1,044 wordsCharlemagne is also known as Charles the Great. He was the most famous ruler in the Middle Ages. He was the king of the Franks from 768 - 814 and the emperor of the Romans from 800 - 814. Charlemagne's kingdom included most of western and central Europe. He was born in 742 and died in 814. Charlemagne was a tall man for that time at over six feet. He had a thick neck, red hair, and blue eyes. Some words that describe him would be ambitious, strong, and brutal. Charlemagne was a very smart man. H...
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Gene Pool Northern Hemisphere
1,207 wordsIntroduction It is unlikely that any family of fish has received as much attention as the Salmoninae. Many have a particularly heart-felt interest in the Salmoninae (trout, salmon, and char) because they love to fish. But man often destroys that which he loves, and the Salmoninae are no exception to this phenomenon. Exploitation of these fish has led to the extinction of certain species in some areas, but the attempt to preserve our valued fisheries has resulted in extensive research on the Salm...
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Irish Bagpipes Brian Boru Pipe
1,568 wordsIrish Bagpipes (Brian Boru pipe) The bagpipes have been a huge part of Irish music for many years. Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland, but the pipes really came from Ireland. The earliest bag pipes date back to 4000 B. C. in the Middle East, where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient, certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all marched to the sound of the pipes to battle. As for Ireland, a seventh...
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Emancipation Proclamation Colored Troops
1,098 words... bsp; It was evident to the Union that they would need more men to join the draft so they could fill the ranks, but the wives of these men did not want their husbands and boyfriends running off to war, just to be killed. President Lincoln realized that more men were needed, but in order to keep the issue of slavery out of the wa, r he did not want to use blacks as soldiers. The war began as an effort to save the Union, and that is how Lincoln wanted it to stay. On the morning of April 12, 186...
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Third Army General Patton
1,034 words... item and they became the 304 th Tank Brigade. Patton was known all around Europe for the training he gave to his men. "The men of the 304 th were worked hard by Patton. He would drill them hard and was a stickler for discipline: "All human beings have an innate resistance to obedience. Discipline removes this resistance and by constant repetition, makes obedience habitual and unconscious. " His men were considered the best trained in Europe. " Patton gave the best training he could give to t...
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Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley
1,106 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird a novel by Harper Lee, takes place in a southern community in Alabama. The story tells about difficult time of 1930 s, where people were suffering from the Great Depression. The success of To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most frequently read novels of the last hundred years; can be attributed to its powerful, universal themes. Several themes, encompassing, are that valuable lessons are learned in confronting those who are unlike ourselves and unlike ...
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Aix La Chapelle Middle Ages
1,783 wordsCharlemagne The King We know a good deal about Charlemagne because we have two biographies of him written by men who were close to him. The more important of these is by Einhard. He describes Charlemagne as being moderately tall, around six feet tall and powerfully built with a thick neck and deep chest. He had the red hair and blue eyes of his tribe and was possessed of both strength and stamina. He was average of the Franks in his love for hunting and for feasting, but Einhard notes that his k...
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First World War House Of Commons
1,751 wordsUkrainian Internment During the First World War Representations of History Freedom Had a Price is a 1994 award winning documentary about the Canadian internment of? enemy aliens? (as considered by the Canadian government) during the First World War. Produced and directed by Your Luhovy, it is a moving visual account of the atrocities perpetrated on prisoners who had committed no crimes. While a small percentage were German captives, the majority were Canadians of Ukrainian descent. Hated and fea...
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House Of Burgesses Whiskey Rebellion
2,392 wordsGeorge Washington He was born 1732 and he died in 1799. George Washington seems today a figure larger than life itself... almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18 th-century city Williamsburg. On Duke of Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Taverns Apollo Room, or the Governors Palace Gardens, his powerful frame and his nice attitude... his presence. drew to him the notice that wrote his place in the history of the city, the state, and the nation. Hi...
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President Of The United States Mount Vernon
1,471 wordsGeorge Washington seems today a figure larger than life. Washington secured his first military commissions, learned and practiced the mysteries and arts of politics and moved from the beginning of being just another country person to become the leader of a continental revolution. George Washington led an interesting life throughout his presidency, war, and life. George Washington was born February 22, 1732, in Westmore Land County. He was the first son of his father Augustine s second marriage; ...
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Women Are Treated Middle East
1,108 words? God Dies By The Niles? After reading? God Dies By The Nile? by Naval El Saadawi one can begin to realize how much different life in the Middle East is in comparison to areas such as China and India which we have studied. The term Middle East refers to South Western Asia and North Eastern Africa The Middle east has many very interesting features and aspects about it such as the way there economy is organized, the type of religion that they practice, the various geographical aspects of the land,...
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Great Wall Of China Ming Dynasty
530 wordsTHE GREAT WALL Of CHINA The great wall of China is the longest structure ever built. Its length is about 4, 000 miles (6, 400 kilometers), and it was erected by hand, the wall crosses northern China between the east coast, and north-central China. Over the centuries various rulers built walls to protect their northern border against invaders. Some of the walls stood on or near the sight of the great wall. Most of what is now called the Great Wall dates from the Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644). The ea...
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Total Life Expectancy Geography Of Greenland Danish
754 wordsThe geography of Greenland Greenland The geography of Greenland is quite ironic considering its name. Greenland is Located in the northern part of North America. It is between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada. Greenland? s area is approximately 2, 715, 600 square kilometers. Its area is slightly more than 3 times the size of Texas. It is the largest island in the world. It is also primarily by the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay and from Iceland on the east, by the ...
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Heart Of Darkness Marlow
1,216 wordsHeart of Darkness By: Joseph Conrad &# 9; The novel Heart of Darkness, was written by a man named Joseph Conrad in 1894. Conrad was born December 3, 1857 into a family of polish decent in the northern Ukraine. The backgrounds of his family members consisted of a father that was an avid translator of Shakespeare as well as poet, along with a mother, that while was prone to illness still was well read and very intelligent. When Conrad was five, his father was exiled into a prison camp in Northern ...
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