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Austria Hungary Triple Alliance
1,463 wordsMussolini and the intervention crisis Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1902 he emigrated to Switzerland. Unable to find a permanent job there and arrested for vagrancy, he was expelled and returned to Italy to do his military service. After further trouble with the police, he joined the staff of a newspaper in the Austrian town of Trento in 1...
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1,299 wordsPicasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881 - 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, is considered one of the greatest artist of the 20 th century. He was a inventor of forms, innovator of styles and techniques, a master of various media, and one of the most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20, 000 works. Picasso was Born in Malaga on October 25, 1881, he was the son of Jos Ruiz Black, an art teacher, and Mara Picasso y Lopez. Until 1898 he always used his father's name, Ruiz, and his mother's ma...
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British Home Front Ww
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First World War Submarine Warfare
995 wordsThe First World War and Submarine Warfare The first "World War, " also known as the Great War, took place shortly after the turn of the century from 1914 - 1918, and was so named because it was the first conflict of global proportions. The war resulted in the loss of millions of lives and the virtual destruction of Europe. The stunning proportions of the war were due largely to the application of technology to warfare. The industrial revolution at the end of the nineteenth century had brought me...
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Million Years Ago Sea Levels
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Roman Catholic Church Major League Baseball
1,697 wordsOn February 6, 1895, Kate Schamberger Ruth gave birth to her first child. George Herman Ruth, Jr. was born in the house of his grandparents in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first of eight children born to Kate and George Herman Ruth. Unfortunately, most of the children died in infancy, and only George, Jr. and his sister Mamie survived to lead a full life. Ruth's father worked as a bartender and ultimately opened his own tavern. He and his wife spent little time with their son because they wor...
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Late 1800 Early 1900
1,436 wordsWhen asked to discuss the origins of the first world war, there is generally little debate. Most would site the growth of Germany as an economic, military and naval power, and the rise in nationalism and an arms race throughout Europe. All of which was characterized by the growing occurrence of political disruptions, culminated by the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand in Serbia. This is, of course true, but many historians tend to neglect the effect of demographic change on a society. During ...
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House Of Commons Chancellor Of The Exchequer
1,783 wordsChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, his family's ancestral seat in Oxfordshire, on November 30, 1874. He was the older son of Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, a British statesman who rose to be chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. His mother was an American, Jennie Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier. Churchill inherited a family tradition of statesmanship that went back to the great English general John Churchil...
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Austro Hungarian Austria Hungary
1,120 wordsIt is generally accepted that Germany and her ally the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (together called the Central Powers), played the main role in creating the conditions that led to the Great War. Germany began to take the initiative after her traditional enemies France and Russia joined in an alliance. She expanded her Army and more conspicuously began a programme of construction of battleships that also brought her into conflict with Great Britain. As early as 1905, Germany considered how ...
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Captains Log Of Kptlt Otto Hersing
1,453 wordsH 2 >Captains Recovery Captains Log is about a Captain commanding a German submarine in World War I. He commands one of the most important and renowned naval vessels in the German fleet. Receiving a medal for two years in the sea, he became famous and hated by the allies. I received this amount as a combination of a Social Studies and English project. I had to write about something in World War I so I chose a naval vessel in the German Imperial Navy. The way I came up with this topic was ...
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Austro Hungarian Empire First World War
1,865 wordsWorld War One or 'The Great War' as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger for the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28 th June 1914. The assassination occurred during the Archduke's visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was targeted due to the general feeling amongst Serbians that, once appointed to the th...
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World War One Declared War On Germany
1,344 wordsThe U-boat fleet all started in 1905, when the German government ordered for a new type of military submarine to be produced, and be called das Unterseebootein, which means undersea boat, and is abbreviated as U-boat. Within a short time, Krupps Germaniawerft plant designed the almost perfect submarine, except for one flaw, the use of petrol engines. Using gasoline was extremely dangerous, with the constant risk of explosions. So instead of petrol engines, they replaced them with diesel engines....
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,704 wordsThrough the centuries, decades, and years the world has come by many amazing authors and poets but there are always that select renowned few that will stick out in your memory, one of which being Thomas Stearns Eliot. As you read on you will be taken through the journey of T. S. Eliot's amazing and intriguing life, and his works of poetry. His authoritative prose style he developed in his 20 s helped him re-establish the premises upon which poetry was read, evaluated, and written. In writing str...
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Anglo German Relations Prior To World War I
1,361 wordsThe origin and causes of World War I have been subjects of great interest to many 20 th century historians. The history, policies, and controversies surrounding the major countries involved in WWI have evoked many discussions on whether or not the war could have been avoided, as well as various accounts of what actually took place. The focus of this essay will be to examine the entering of England into WWI, in particular her relations with Germany prior to the war, and the degree to which these ...
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How Democratic Was Britain By 1914
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Austro Hungarian Empire War On Serbia
1,922 wordsA cool, sunny summer morning some 87 years ago, two bullets were fired in a Sarajevo street that would soon set in motion a series of events that would throw the world into a struggle against itself. Gavril o Princip was the young man who fired those two fateful shots that hit Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie. The royal couple was returning from City Hall and was in route back to the Capitol. Princip, fueled with hatred at the Austr...
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Roman Catholic Church Major League Baseball
1,342 wordsOn February 6, 1895, George Herman Ruth, Jr. , was born in his grandparents house in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth as a young child. Ruth s dad worked as a bartender and owned his own bar. They spent very little time with George because they worked long hours. Eventually, his parents felt that they couldn t take care of George, and on June 13, 1902, he was taken to St. Mary s Industrial School for Boys. His custody was also signed over to the Xaverian Brothers, a Catholic Order of Jesuit Missionarie...
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Christian Temperance Union Political Equality
1,736 wordsShe Nelly Mcclung NELLIE McCLUNG She was spirited, she was amazing, she was effective, a few commonly used words to describe Nellie McClung. She was a petit, pretty westerner with strong Christian values and a heart of gold. Nellie spent most of her life as a wife, mother, midwife, teacher, lecturer, legislator and writer. Throughout her long, diverse career she was a potent influence on Canadian society. From a young age Nellie was advanced far beyond her years. She read every book she could ge...
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1,774 wordsPablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, generally considered the greatest artist of the 20 th century. He was unique as an inventor of forms, as an innovator of styles and techniques, as a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20, 000 works of art. Born in M last on October 25, 1881, Picasso was the son of Jos Ruiz Black, an art teacher, and Mar a Picasso y Lopez. Until 1898 he always used his fathers name, Ruiz, and his mothe...
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League Of Nations Submarine Warfare
1,981 wordsTHOMAS WOODROW WILSON was the 28 th president of the United States. Born on the 28 th of December 1856, he was an American scholar and statesman who was best remembered for his high-minded and leading the United States into World War I. Wilson was born to religious and well-educated people, mainly of Scottish background. Wilsons father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, studied for the clergy at the Presbyterian directed Princeton University. He married Janet Woodrow, and early in the 1850 s the Wilsons mo...
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