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Secretary Of State Daniel Webster
313 words
Daniel Webster was the ninth born son of Ebenezer
Webster, who was a farmer and tavern-keeper. He
was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18
th in 1782. He was nicknamed Black Dan. When he
was a child he was mostly bedridden, many thought
he wouldnt make it. He was forced to read. He fell
in love with books. When he was just fifteen he
entered Dartmouth College. After he graduated he
taught for a little while before working in a law
office in Boston. He made over 65, 000 a year! In
1807 ...
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United Nations U N
384 words
Lesson # 21 Question # 16 Describe the goal and
functions of the United Nations. Upon the conclude
5 ion of WWII, the 1945 San Francisco Conference
created the provisions for the United Nations. The
purpose of this multinational organization was to
promote international peace and security,
settlement of disputes between nations by peaceful
means, develop friendly relations with other
nations, and the international cooperation to
solve global social, economic, and cultural
problems. To accomplish...
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Bin Laden Vice President
1,117 words
In today's meeting, the President of the United
States of America, George W. Bush, officially
announced he is having a Thanksgiving party at his
ranch in Crawford, Texas this weekend. Throughout
the day, invitations were sent out all over the
White House. My body grew tremendously excited at
the possibility that maybe this year I would be
invited. My partner Bill walked in with his
invitation in his hand, wagged it around as though
it were merely nothing to him and then threw it
aimlessly toward...
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Board Of Education Horace Mann
715 words
& # 9; Horace Mann was the father of the
American School System. Horace Mann's had many
reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann
determined what the purpose of education should be
based on his own experience and observation. Mann
also had many ideas how education could be
improved. Many of these ideas have been followed
by schools today as well. Mann also had ideas on
topics which one considers today to be
controversial. The public should take into account
what Mann's ideas were on th...
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Al Qaeda Bush Administration
469 words
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the book,
which will be available in book stores next week.
'I knew what would happen if people thought we
were developing a potential war plan for Iraq, '
Bush is quoted as telling Woodward. 'It was such a
high-stakes moment and... it would look like that
I was anxious to go to war. And I'm not anxious to
go to war. ' Bush and his aides have denied
accusations they were preoccupied with Iraq at the
cost of paying attention to the al Qaeda terrorist
threat...
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Colored Troops Commissioned Officers
1,020 words
... ort, which was occupied by a 292 black
soldiers and 285 white soldiers. The Confederate
troops captured the Fort and gave the Union
soldiers a chance to surrender. They then drove
the Union soldiers down the river's bluff into a
deadly crossfire and many died that day, there
were only 62 of the 292 black soldiers that
survived. Many in the North accused the
Confederates of purposely massacring the blacks
soldiers. Afterward in other battles "Negro
soldiers fought only more stubbornly and fer...
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United Nations White House
647 words
'Put him in, ' Bush said at a news conference. 'If
they are interested in reforming the United
Nations, they ought to approve John Bolton. ' Bush
spoke hours before the Republican-run Senate was
scheduled to vote for a second time on ending a
Democratic filibuster that has blocked a final
vote on Bolton's nomination. The 100 -member
chamber seemed likely to fall short of the 60
votes needed to end the delays, as it did last
month. Earlier Monday, White House press secretary
Scott McClellan did n...
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Alger Hiss Communist Spies
1,458 words
During the late nineteen forties, a new
anti-Communistic chase was in full holler, this
being the one of the most active Cold War fronts
at home. Many panic-stricken citizens feared that
Communist spies were undermining the government
and treacherously misdirecting foreign policy. The
attorney general planned a list of ninety
supposedly disloyal organizations, none of which
was given the right to prove its loyalty to the
United States. The Loyalty Review Board
investigated more than three millio...
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Benjamin Banneker Almanac Jefferson
364 words
2 / 27 / 03 / 6 th Period Benjamin Banneker was
born in 1731 near Baltimore. His Grandmother, an
Englishwoman, taught him to read and write. For
several winters he attended a small school open to
blacks and whites. There he developed a keen
interest in mathematics and science. Later, while
farming, Banneker pursued his mathematical studies
and taught himself astronomy. In 1753, he
completed a remarkable clock. He built it entirely
of wood, carving each gear by hand. His only
models were a pocket...
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U S Government Secretary Of State
979 words
In the beginning of 70 s the most tragic event in
the history of Chile took place. In the countrys
capital Santiago machine gunfire opened and the
rebellion had begun. In the United States such
events were supported by Nixon's administration,
since it was a positive outcome of operations of
intelligence services. Declassified U. S.
government records shed light on corners of the
story that previously had been suspected, but not
proven. The documents describe how an angry Nixon
demanded a coup, i...
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East India Company British East India
1,644 words
... left hanging from trees along their line of
march. At Back-ke-Serai, five miles from Delhi,
they met the main army of the mutineers and though
the British won the field they failed to destroy
the sepoy army which fled back to the protection
of the walls of Delhi. The British established
themselves on Delhi ridge, a thin spur of high
ground to the north of the city. There, two months
after they had been forced out of the city, the
British once again looked down on the massive
ramparts of the ...
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Consolidate His Power Juan Peron
1,517 words
Juan Domingo Peron Juan Domingo Peron firstly
appeared on Argentinean political scene back in
June, 1943. He was a strong man and with the help
of military junta they took the power in the
state. Previously unknown, save among a clique of
army nationalists, he was to become thereafter the
pivot around which Argentinas power struggles
would revolve for the next three decades. Even
today, more than a decade after his death, a
powerful political party backed by the trade union
movement bears his na...
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For The Countries Of Former Eastern Block Past
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For the countries of the former Eastern block the
past is very much the present. But how do the
citizens of the post soviet countries deal with
their monstrous past? Do they try to rewrite their
history into something more presentable? Or do
they confess their mistakes and try learning on
them? Tina Rosenberg, being a freelance
journalist, has traveled through three former
Soviet countries of the Eastern Europe, namely
former Czechoslovakia, Poland and former Eastern
Germany, in order to study t...
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Doesn T General Secretary
925 words
This definition is right and is fully accurate,
but it only demonstrates the theory of communism
and doesn^t explain how it really worked. It
doesn^t say that the theory never worked out,
because it is impossible to make it work. I am
going to tell some things about communism in USSR
where my parents lived all their lives, but when I
was born it was already dying out. So, mostly
everything that I am going to tell is based on
what my parents and grandparents told me about
life in USSR. Communism ...
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Primat Der Aussenpolitik Ist Fur Der Primat Der Aussenpolitik Ist Kehr
420 words
Der Primat Der Aussenpolitik Ist Fur Die Der
Primat Der Aussenpolitik Ist Fur Die Ideologies
Des Deutschen National staats Des 19. Jahrhunderts
Kehr? s collection of essays are united, as the
title of the anthology suggests, by the theme of
the primacy of domestic politics in Wilhelmine
Germany. ? The thesis put forward by Kehr was that
domestic political concerns regarding the conflict
of the industrialised masses, the industrial
middle classes and the agrarian East Elbian
landowners were the d...
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World War Ii Attack On Pearl Harbor
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Did Franklin Roosevelt know Pearl Harbor was going
to be attacked? Did President Franklin Roosevelt
know Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked? On
December 7, 1941 the United States of America was
attacked at the naval base in Pearl Harbor by the
Empire of Japan. It was a day considered by
President Roosevelt to live in infamy. Pearl
Harbor was the home to a large part of the United
States aircraft carrier fleet. It was definitely
an intriguing attack site for Japan to hit. The
attack was an obv...
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Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt
544 words
Eleanor Roosevelt was the daughter of Anna and
Elliott Roosevelt, who was President Teddy
Roosevelt's younger brother. She was born in New
York City on October 11, 1884. Her mother died
when she was eight and her father passed away when
she was ten. Her grandmother sent her to boarding
school in England, and this turned a shy, awkward
girl into a lady with accomplished social graces.
She returned to America for her debut and met
distant cousin Franklin Roosevelt at a party. They
were married in ...
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Skateboard And Snowboard Mark Mckee Call
474 words
Interview with an Artist The artist / illustrator
I chose to contact was Mark McKee. He? s an
illustrator / designer for World Industries, a
skateboard and snowboard company. Some of his work
has been very controversial and lawsuits have been
filed on several occasions. Specifically for a
board with a Winnie the Pooh look-alike and also
for a design similar to a L. Ron Hubbard book. But
I particularly liked his original work,
specifically flame-boy and the smiley devil guy.
Contacting him wasn? ...
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Secretary Of State Prime Minister
1,553 words
Margaret Hilda Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatchers
overwhelming sense of self-confidence and ambition
ruled her life from the time she was a small child
in Grantham, though her Oxford years and during
her early years in politics. It led her to become
the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain,
and also helped through her difficult political
years as Attila the Hun. Britains first female
Prime Minister was born on October 13, 1925 in a
small room over a grocers shop in Graham, England.
Margar...
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Perfect Family Didn T
1,222 words
In the United Failure Failure In the United
States, print and electronic media advertisements
are full of images of the perfect family: usually
proud parents with a happy and healthy child. New
parents expect the fulfillment of a high-quality
relationship with their newborn. So what happens
when this fixation of happiness goes awry? How do
the parents cope with failure when their child is
born with some sort of imperfection? Wednesday s
Child by Joyce Carol Oates shows how one family
succumbs to...
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