... around the country in March of 1915 and ran for 47 straight weeks including 280 sold out shows in New York. D.W. Griffith's film spawned a new generation of the KKK. William Simmons was the first to seize upon the white supremacist feeling that swept the nation. On Thanksgiving night in 1915, Simmons and some of his friends climbed Stone Mountain in Atlanta, Georgia. There, they stood before, "…a burning wooden cross and before a hastily constructed rock altar upon which lay an American flag, an opened Bible, an unsheathed sword and a canteen of water." From that moment on, the Ku Klux Klan began its reign of terror in the United States for a second tim ...
... Therefore, cutting him off from oil in the Caucausus' and "Lend-Lease" aid from the west. This battle would last for more than a year, and could be considered one of the most important battles of the war, mainly because of two large, powerful armies meeting each other head on. Originally, Stalingrad hadn't really been an objective. It became one however after Hitler grew to have a personal obsession with it. It being named after Stalin himself, his enemy, made it a conquest he had to take on. The loss at Stalingrad could be partially blamed on Hitler himself. He withdrew into a shell during this period, concentrating on nothing more than the city. In the meantime ...
... Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro y Macedonia), los Habsburgo (Croacia, Eslovenia, Eslavonia, parte de Dalmacia y Voivodina) y la República Veneciana (Istria y Dalmacia). Después que fuera aplastada la insurrección de 1690 en la vieja Serbia, unas 70 mil personas se refugiaron en territorios de los Habsburgo. El Imperio Otomano trasladó a musulmanes albaneses a los territorios abandonados (Kosovo y Metohija). A principios del siglo XX continuaron los conflictos: la resistencia serbia al Imperio austro - húngaro provocó el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando de Austria, hecho que marcó el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Al final de la conflagrac ...
... border. They would patrol the border during the day and go to the post at night. Some Americans thought it would be smartest to attack the Germans at breakfast and push until met resistance from the Germans, but it was thought to be a bad idea. Infantry reported hearing the sound of tanks and trucks coming from the German side. But the officers told them it was just the sound of the Germans playing the sound on the phonograph records. At 5:30AM on December 6, 1944 they found out they were wrong when eight German armored divisions and thirteen German infantry division launched an all out attack on five divisions of the U.S. first army. At least 657 light, mediu ...
... space for artistic experiment and expression. The remains of the Sanctuary of Fortuna are an example of Republican Roman architecture. The sanctuary is dedicated to the goddess of fate and chance, was begun about 100 BCE. Its design and size reflect the influence of the Greek Hellenistic architecture, in the use of the long colonnade and the colossal scale of the great altar from Pergamon. A Roman house of this period usually consisted of small rooms laid out on a straight, generally symmetrical plan, as in the House of Pansa in Pompeii (2nd Century BCE). From the entrance a corridor led to the atrium, a large space with a shallow pool for catching rainwater thr ...
... War" that essentially ended in a draw. In 1895 a depression in Cuba made conditions worse, and revolution again broke out threatening to go on indefinitely as the rebels would be strong enough win, nor would the Spanish forces be powerful enough to defeat them. American newspapers, especially the yellow press of rival publishers, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, printed outlandish stories of the Spanish oppression in Cuba. They included wildly exaggerated accounts that a quarter of the Cuban population had been killed at the hands of their Spanish oppressors. President William McKinley was urged to pressure Spain into granting Cuba limited self-gove ...
... weapons, but not enough food or water, and a diverse crew from many nations. During their journey, it began to get colder and colder, for they were moving south. The ships were in terrible shape, and some attempted mutinies even occured. The Santiago, which was set out on a different route, sank, and with it the crew and many provisions. They finally arrived at Puerto San Julian, where, according to Winchester, they found "patagones" which means big feet. They captured several "patagones" and named the land Patagonia. On October 21, 1520, Magellan finally sighted Cabo Virjenes, the eastern end of the M agellan strait, the entrance to the Pacific Ocean. Magellan sent ...
... used for medicinal and sacramental purposes; this act set up guidelines for enforcement as well (Altman 15). Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol, and thereby reduce crime, poverty, death rates, and improve the economy and general quality of life. This, however, was undoubtedly to no avail. After the Volstead Act was put into place to determine precise laws and methods of enforcement, the Federal Prohibition Bureau was developed in order to see that the Volstead Act was enforced. Nevertheless, these laws were frequently violated by bootleggers and commoners alike. Bootleggers smuggled liquor from overseas and Canada, stole it from governmen ...
... and fire. There was only one problem, when Garros shot his gun he would hit the propeller. Garros would shoot his enemy and take the enemy down but he would also take himself down by shooting off his propeller. Garros invention was a good idea, but it still needed to be perfected. Anthony Fokkers was the person who would improve this invention. Anthony perfected Garros system of firing through the arc of the propeller. In less than forty-eight hours, the Dutch aeronautical engineer and manufacturer of that great line of German fighter planes improved considerably on Garros Invention. Now that Fokker had this perfected, he roamed the skies virtually unop ...
... after the publication of a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News from August 10-20, 1996 authored by reporter Gary Webb. Webb documented that the connection between U.S. foreign policy in the 1980s, international ##### traffickers, and crack cocaine's origins in South Central Los Angeles. This paper will critically examine some of the speeches, press release, letter and other documents by Rep. Maxine Waters in her quest to "…punish those responsible for creating the devastating drug addition sales, gun-running, violence, and death associated with crack cocaine throughout this nation" (press release 9/5/96). Before I perform a critical analysis, ...
