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Franco Prussian War People Of France
1,203 wordsIn the following paragraphs I will be discussing France after it's defeat in the Franco-Prussian war; the constitution, divisions in government, threats to the people's faith in their rulers, and the economy. France began this era at considerable disadvantage because of the war and Bismarck's policy of isolation, which greatly hindered it's attempts to regain it's prosperity and it's influence in European affairs. France after the Franco-Prussian war was in both economic and political crises. In...
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1,255 wordsIntroduction Rugby, also known as Rugger, is a football game played with an oval ball by two teams of either 15 (Rugby Union) or 13 (Rugby League) players each. The object of the game is to score as many points as possible by carrying, passing, kicking and grounding an oval ball in the scoring zone at the far end of the field -- called the in-goal area. Grounding the ball, which must be done with downward pressure, results in a try (worth 5 points). After a try a conversion may be attempted by p...
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Second Husband Wall Street
1,059 wordsVictoria Claflin Woodhull was a lobbyist, businesswoman, writer, and investor who advocated womens equality in status, work, home, and politics. She worked against the 19 th century notions that daughters, mothers, and wives should be silent and submissive. She called for a vote and a voice in all matters of life and citizenship. She was a modern woman ahead of her time. She spoke frankly in the need for women to take control of their lives including their health and family planning. Victoria sp...
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Franco Prussian War South German States
1,741 words... sian's were firing at them from the ground, the sailors would shout, Death to the invaders! or Vive la France! When the sharpshooters were unable to bring down these balloons, the Prussians tried unsuccessfully to develop weapons to bring them down. They developed a special anti-balloon field gun. The French Minister of the Interior, Leon Gambetta and his chief assistant, Charles Louis de Sales de Freycinet, left by balloon to go to Tours to take charge of the provisional government. The cro...
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Social Democratic Party Austria And Prussia
1,821 wordsGermany was the last of the great European powers to achieve political unity. In 1815, 39 independent German states stretched north and south from the Baltic Sea to the Alps, and east and west from the Rhine River to Russia. Political rivals Austria and Prussia were the most powerful of these German states. By 1871, however, the German states-excluding Austria and Switzerland-had united into a single nation. The Congress of Vienna had created the German Confederation in 1815 as a buffer against ...
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Austro Hungarian Empire First World War
2,097 words... the British in the North Sea. Germany and Austria also had military agreements. When the First World War was fought, it was to be fought by all powers because they had made the military plan cooperatively and very few people inside or outside government circles expected a long and destructive world war 13. As a result of the armaments race, all the European powers felt they were prepared for a war by 1914. There were two kinds of nationalism in 19 th Century Europe, the desire of subject peo...
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776 wordsThe exact particulars of the great Chicago Fire are unknown besides the fact that it started about 9 p. m. on Sunday, October 8, 1871. There have been persistent theories that the 1871 Fire was caused by a comet. The latest comet theory was proposed by physicist Robert Wood. He attributed the blazes to a fragment from Bills comet. He stated that for large fires, all on the shores of Lake Michigan, took place on the same day. But none of the comet theories has been accepted. Only regional weather...
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2,050 wordsNowadays, it is quite impossible to be absolutely sure as what was the initial cause of Chicago Great Fire of 1871. However, it is most probably that this cause had accidental properties. Most historians agree that the fire was started in Patrick Olearys barn, when one of his cows kicked over a lantern. This seemingly a banal accident is associated with one of the worst artificially created disasters in the history of U. S. During the course of fire, three hundred people lost their life and hund...
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2,160 wordsThe Idea of Revolution presented in Bleak House and Pere Goriot Balzac created a literary masterpiece called Pere Goriot in which he presented the idea of how society was established in post revolutionary period in France. This is a story of the struggling student Rastignac in Paris, embroiled in the life of the saintly Goriot and the Villainous Vautrin. Physical spaces and social groups can have intertwined and sometimes meaningful histories. ne thinks, fr instance, f the relationship f Stonehe...
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Franco Prussian War South German States
1,267 wordsFranco-Prussian War, war in 1870 - 1871 lost by France to the German states under the leadership of Prussia. The underlying causes of the conflict were the determination of the Prussian statesman Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck to unify Germany under Prussian control and, as a step toward this goal, to eliminate French influence over Germany. On the other hand, Napoleon III, emperor of France from 1852 to 1870, sought to regain both in France and abroad the prestige lost as a result of n...
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1,822 wordsOtto von Bismarck and his Policies- Otto von Bismarck or Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, Count von Bismarck-Sch nhau sen, Duke von Lauenburgwas a Prussian statesman who in 1871 founded the German Empire and served as its first chancellor for 19 years. Once the empire was established, he actively and skillfully pursued pacific policies in foreign affairs, succeeding in preserving the peace in Europe for about two decades. But in domestic policies his patrimony was less benign, for he fa...
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