... in Spain known as the Peninsular Wars. In Spain many small groups were formed to fight against the new king. On the other hand in S. America the groups were formed to fight against the Spanish King and Joseph Bonaparte. That year Caracas, Bolivar hometown, declared independence from Spain. BACK IN S. AMERICA In 1808 Bolivar, Bello and Mendez were sent to England on a diplomatic mission. It was a failed attempt to gain an alliance. He returned to Venezuela in 1811 and won a battle in Valencia. Quickly he looses the port of Puerto Cabello to the Royalists during the First Republic. However he was able to recoup his troops in 1813 and institute the Venezuelan S ...
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... his unrelenting defiance. It was divine intuition that put Winston Churchill in a position of leadership made evident by the amazing effect he had on his countrymen through the words that he spoke and through his idea of forming the "Grand Alliance". When his speeches were broadcasted over the radio during wartime, Britain stopped. Every citizen listened to each word he said with great attentiveness. Churchill’s Blood, Sweat and Tears speech is a fine example of his beautiful art of speaking as it filled the people of Britain with much needed hope and bountiful courage: You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea ...
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... he was still not affected by modern thought and ideas, actually none of the members of the clan had either ( Ch’en, Yuan Shih-k’ai, p 1). By entering the family Shih-k’ai would take the clan name of Yuan and also gain the advantage of being in a very influential military family. All of this would help him later in his military career. In 1886, Shih-k’ai would be taken to begin preparing for his career in the civil service. China had been using exams for many generations to decide who its leaders would be, and these test would be based on the Confucius theories. Its desire to hold on to the old ways would cause the country to become a target for foreign countr ...
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... Nandi’s aunt lived with the Mthethwa, a very powerful group. Here he learned many of the skills that later made him a successful warrior. That was also where he came under the guidance of Dingiswayo, an important factor in the shaping of his thinking. Dingiswayo introduced age regiments where young men were called up to serve for a part of every year, men from the same households and villages were put in different regiments, their allegiance primarily to the ruler of the chiefdom, Dingiswayo, and secondarily to their local chiefs. In his early twenties, Shaka was conscripted into the Mthethwa army, as he was a skilled warrior, he ascended the ranks to command ...
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... spread to "bet on the Reds", (Everstine 3), an astronomical amount of money was needed to make the payoff to all involved, including the baseball players of the White Sox who were participating in the scandal. Before the beginning of the game on that ‘scandalous’ day, Joe Jackson begged the owner of the White Sox; Charles Comiskey to listen to him in regards to the fix of the game that was about to happen. The evidence was proven that Jackson had even asked to be benched for the series to avoid any suspicion of his involvement in the fix. Unfortunately, Comiskey did not listen to Jackson. "Heavy betting was taking place" (Everstine 3). T ...
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... however, the story closest to Lois Duncan's heart still doesn't have an ending. Who Killed My Daughter? The account of her search for the truth behind the murder of her 18-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, was written in real time as the horror unfolded. When the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the contrary, Duncan began her own investigation. Her search for the answers took her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs and led her to seek the help of the nation's top psychic detectives, who, along with a courageous newspaper reporter, provided information that proved to her that Kait's death was far f ...
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... birthday, his father took him to his first concert tour to Munich. At twelve, he wrote his first opera called La finta semplice. In 1762, Mozart, his father, and his sister, went to Vienna, where they played at the imperial court and other places. He played the piano like an adult, and “performed all the tricks that were asked of him, playing with the keyboard covered or with one finger,” as stated by Elias. At an early age, Mozart learned to dress in the court manner, including the wig, and also learned the correct way to walk and turn a compliment. The normal social situation of a musician in Mozart’s lifetime was that of a servant at court, where he took ...
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... percautions against many of the dangers which face him. Fears of that sort, exceedingly violent in themselves, bred a species of violence in the medieval mind. So in the writings of the times this eminent fear was a influence of writing for all. Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat. The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from common life and bawedy talkes to puritanical religion. He knew an assortion ...
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... produced his first car, the Model A. When Ford’s first car came out, he had been interviewed by a reporter and when asked about the history of the car, he had said "History is more or less bunk." Ford worked in Thomas Edison’s factory for years and the left to become an apprentice for a car-producer in Detroit. While working there, he established how he was going to make the car. He looked through hundreds of books on bicycles and books on horse and buggies. Ford decided to use wheels from a bicycle, and the same steel framing. From the horse and buggy, he took the idea of the shape of the actual frame. He also made a handlebar that was in the same place a ...
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... On his other summer vacations he went to England. He also worked as a janitor at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall (utopian community) and he also took a shot as free-lance work in New York for a while. After working on some temporary jobs, he graduated Yale in 1908. After he got his degree, he worked for publishing houses and various magazines in Iowa, Carmel, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City. During his time in Greenville Village, he associated with some radicals like John Reed and Floyd Dell, and he became, for a while, member of the socialist party. In 1912, Lewis published his first book, Hike and the Aeroplane. This book was published und ...
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