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World War Ii Northern And Southern
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Chartres Cathedral Notre Dame
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The Nobel Prize And Its First Laureates
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Wolfgang Von Goethe Age Of Twenty
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Franco Prussian War War With France
1,817 wordsThe Franco-Prussian War, was a war in 1870 - 1871, which the French lost to the German states while they were under the leadership of Prussia. The underlying causes of the conflict were the Prussian statesman Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck's desire to unify Germany under Prussian control and, to eliminate French influence over Germany. On the other hand, Napoleon III, emperor of France from 1852 to 1870, wanted to regain the prestige he had lost, both at home and abroad, as a result of ...
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Britain And France Eva Braun
1,509 words... imitator, he made Eva Braun, a clerk, his mistress, but refused to marry her in order to preserve his image as a self-denying public servant. In 1932, with Germany close to anarchy, Hitler's career approached its crisis. He narrowly lost to the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg in the presidential elections in April, and the Nazis polled their highest vote (37. 2 %) in the July elections. In the November elections, however, the Nazi vote decreased to 33. 1 %. Hitler had lost prestige through his...
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Prisoners Of War Concentration Camps
740 wordsOn October 18, 1945, the chief prosecutors lodged an indictment with the War Crimes Tribunal charging 24 individuals with variety of crimes and atrocities. This included the deliberate instigation of wars, extermination of racial and religious groups, murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war, and the murder, mistreatment, and the deportation of slave labor of the inhabitants of countries occupied by Germany during the war. The men accused at the trial were the Nationalist Socialist leaders He...
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Ferdinand Von Zeppelin Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin War
450 wordsZEPPELINS Justin Kieslich U. S. History II Friday, December 8 th Zeppelins First invented in Manzell, a small town in Southern Germany by Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin (The Giant Airships, 1). The Zeppelin was made of duralumin internal frames. The first of the great airships to fly was the LZ 1 which was flown from its floating hanger on Lake Constance on July 2, 1900 (historical note, 1) When the British went to war with Germany on August 4, 1914, they fully anticipated that the skies over Engl...
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Nobel Laureate Von Neumann
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Nineteenth Century Gold Rush
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Hitler Came To Power Adolf Hitler
2,609 wordsAdolf Hitler s Rise to Power Adolf Hitler was a very influential man whom through many adversaries came to power in Germany, by manipulating the people of that time. Hitler a very persuasive orator, raised the ranks of the government quickly, and even after losing the 1932 election in Germany to Hindenburg, Hitler was made chancellor in 1933, which also brought total control to the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi s. Hitler did not become chancellor because he was a great speaker,...
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Mary Shelley Separate Spheres
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concertos
2,089 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart was one of the (if not the) most important composer (s) of the Classical era. His accomplishments in musical composition were outstanding against the others of his time. He was a child prodigy, finishing his first opera at the age of twelve, and in his later life went on to even more amazing things. Though we always hear of Mozart's wonderful achievements, we hardly ever hear about the hard later life of alcohol abuse and horrible misfortune with children he had wh...
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T S Eliot Quot Quot
4,047 wordsThe On " Gerontion" Grover Smith The practice of allusion, justified in " Burbank" by the need to characterize the tourist, performs in " Gerontion" the function of condensing into decent compass a whole panorama of the past. If any notion remained that in the poems of 1919 Eliot was sentimentally contrasting a resplendent past with a dismal present, " Gerontion" should have helped to dispel it. What are contrasted in this poem are the secular history of E...
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653 wordsThe Life and Works of Gottfried von Leibniz Gottfried von Leibniz, born on July 1 st, 1646, was a German philosopher, as well as a mathematician, a universal genius, and a founder of modern science. He foresaw the development of symbolic logic and, unconnected with Isaac Newton, invented the calculus with a superior notation, including the symbols for integration and differentiation. He expressed a theory of substance based on monads, which were metaphysical and animistic ally bestowed points of...
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Friedrich Nietzsche Literary Technique
3,976 wordsFriedrich Nietzsche's career as a philosopher and writer is nothing short of monumental. His criticism of organized religion and support of nihilism are key characteristics of his work, and his books are unified by one simple fact: Nietzsche himself wrote them. While this revelation may not seem profound in any sense, Nietzsche's view of his vocation as an author is the source of inspiration, complication and, indeed, the very root of his philosophy. Nietzsche's use of literary technique results...
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Baron Von Continental Army
753 wordsPrussian Baron von Steuben The Prussian Baron von Steuben, being a newcomer to the Revolutionary cause in America, was in a position to see many of the deficiencies in military discipline and their causes. The reasons for his unique insight may have been due to the fact that he was distanced from the revolutionary ideals in America, and as a result, was able to better observe and understand them; and ultimately use them to shape his new and successful form of discipline in the Continental Army. ...
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Rise To Power Hitler
1,070 wordsNotes and Pridham have called the August-December period of 1932? the crisis months? in the? Nazis struggle for power? . However, there are also many other contributing factors prior to this which are very much concerned with Hitler? s final seizure of power in January 1933. History has proved that dramatic change comes only through both strong revolutionaries, and more importantly, weak or unpopular existing rulers. So how far was Hitler and his party responsible for their rise to power, and ho...
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