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- 4471: Bosnia 2
- ... Herzegovina are Muslim, Serb, and Croat. Serbs make up 32% of the population, Muslim 44%, and Croat 17%, and the other percent is other inhabitants. Serbs, in 1992 dominated 55% of the territory and mostly lived in the countryside. Serbs dominate in politics and army in former Yugoslavia. Serbs were and are still most into ethnic cleansing of people who are not also Serb. They are Orthodox Christian which makes Serbs ...
- 4472: Boom Towns Of The Amazon
- ... clearing of the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which has over shadowed the genesis of new urban centers. The prototypical urban community in contemporary Amozonia is a bustling boomtown, a dynamic and sometimes short-lived frontier settlement. The change of the region s landscape occurs in the social area of conflicts involving Indians, agricultural colonists and activists clergy, cattle ranchers miners, timber interest, governmental agents and others. These conflicts are ...
- 4473: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in ...
- 4474: Black Legend
- ... he himself was a Catholic Spaniard said that the natives were people who were patient, peaceful and calm. They never had hate, desire, or vengeance. He considered them to be weak and delicate people who lived amongst themselves in peace and harmony. However, in accordance to the priest, the Spaniards and their horses came and slaughtered the women, men, and children in search of expansion and mainly gold. This desire for ...
- 4475: Bill Gates
- ... private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. BASIC was first developed ...
- 4476: Betsy Ross
- Elizabeth Griscom was born on New Years day 1752. Known as Betsy to family and friends, she was the eighth of seventeen children born to Rebecca and Samuel Griscom. They lived in Philadelphia. Being staunch Quakers, they were very conservative. Betsy was entirely educated at a friend's Quaker school. It was in this Quaker school that she learned how to upholster. With her parents permission ...
- 4477: Ben Franklin 2
- ... the "the wisest American." Blessed with talents and ambition, Franklin was a statesman, author, and inventor in his time. Conscious of his celebrity status and popularity, he was able to create his own character. Having lived the American Dream, he wrote his autobiography for the public as a guideline to reach moral and social perfection. It was Franklin's extraordinary range of accomplishments that made him the American citizen to imitate ...
- 4478: Bell Hooks
- ... with the idea that feminist studies are unscholarly, biased, and ideological (46). Rich claims that the education women are receiving is leaving them powerless and vulnerable. She believes that without such an education, women have lived and will continue to live in ignorance of our collective context (45). Because of male dominance over women s education, the chance for women to be educated the way women should be educated is one ...
- 4479: Bauhaus
- ... devastated with environmental problems from the industry. The school is looking for new solutions to deal with these problems and redevelop the housing in the decaying city (Huovio). Although this period of art was short lived, because of the political turmoil of Europe, new media and technologies emerged from the Bauhaus that changed advanced art. The most lasting influence is in applied design in industry. "Everyone sitting on a chair with ...
- 4480: Battle Of Gettysburg
- ... line on Cemetery Hill, including Culps Hill was secured. The AOP (or at least the portion that was currently on the field) had fought better than they had ever fought before. This record was short-lived however, for on Day 2 uncommonly desperate fighting would be commonplace. Meade himself arrived at the battle a few minutes after midnight, July 2. This sixth and final commander of Union forces at Gettysburg would ...
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