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Medieval Castles
357 Words - 2 Pages.... to. See Diagram.
Castles also had huge 20-foot walls to be protected from.
Only two-ways in or out from the wall were present. One in the
front of the castle where two iron gates had to be broken. Another
gate was located somewhere towards the back of the castle. It was
a secret gate that was very hard to find, and only the king knew
where the gate had been hidden. The gate was used during an
attack to escape from the siege.
In the middle of the castle there was a huge building called
the keep. This is where the king and queen slept, the kitchen and
armory was also located inside. The dinning quarters (the largest
room inside) was used very frequent an ....
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Kosovo History
798 Words - 3 Pages.... of it spreading to other countries. President Milosevic's disregard for diplomatic efforts aimed at peacefully resolving the crisis and the destabilising role of militant Kosovar Albanianforces was also of concern.
On 12 June 1998, the North Atlantic Council, meeting at Defence Minister level, asked for the assessment of possible further measures that NATO might take with regard to the developing Kosovo Crisis. This led to consideration of a large number of possible options.
On 13 October 1998, following a deterioration of the situation, the NATO Council authorised Activation Orders for air strikes. This move was designed to support diplomatic efforts to make the Milosevi ....
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Vietnam
1314 Words - 5 Pages.... (or Vietcong)
in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the
government of South Vietnam. The struggle grew into a war between South
Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into an international conflict. The
United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by
supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic
of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On both
sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians.1
On January 27, in Paris, delegations representing the United States,
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional Revolutionary
Communist Government of South ....
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Rock And Roll 2
766 Words - 3 Pages.... and Roll."
Parents did not like nor believed in it at all. Some adults called it the devils music. Yet the youth of America loved and stood up for it. Th old nagging parents got rid of the music, but bot for long. In the 1960's rock and roll made a huge revival.
"Repots of its demise were highly exaggerated,” said Gale Research. All that hated it, also hated the famous radio station WINS. WINS, was the first radio station to broadcast rock and roll. They were only in it for the music. By the time WINS was part of the revival, the famous, unforgettable 1960's were there.
For the next two decades, the United States did mot know what it was about to go though. It w ....
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The Northwest Ordinance Of 1787
1061 Words - 4 Pages.... of slavery. (www.compton’s.com)
The first written support for education from the federal government
was in Article 3: Encouragement of Education. It was written that every
town should reserve land “for the maintenance of public schools”, “
knowledge being necessary to good government, and the happiness of mankind ,
education shall forever be encouraged”. Article 3 however did not specify
however if federal money would be given to the schools for use, nor did it
specify if African-Americans could attend schools with whites' and although
it the separation of church and state had been previously outlined, the
Ordinance did not mention if it was ok to teach creati ....
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Nonwestern Art
418 Words - 2 Pages.... of Moche pots preserved in museums are so realistically decorated with figures and scenes that they give us a very descriptive look at life during the Moche period. Pots were molded into lifelike representations of people, crops, domestic or wild animals, marine life and houses. Other pots like "Vessel" were painted with scenes of both ceremonial and everyday life. From these pots, archaeologists know that Moche society was very class conscious. This particular ceramic is decorated in reddish brown over a white background with a Moche priest performing a ritual beneath a starry sky. Such a ceramic would have been actually used in a religious ceremony to store various s ....
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A Short History Of Anti-semiti
776 Words - 3 Pages.... of the Third Reich. Although the sheer magnitude of the loss of life during the holocaust is simply impossible to grasp, these horrors were the culmination of generations of anti-Semitism, brought to the boiling point by the decision of one power-crazed man.
Dating back several centuries, anti-Semitism was prevalent throughout Germany barring rare instances where communities were tolerant religiously or socially of Jewish inhabitants. However, the belief that Jews were selfish, manipulative, ignorant heretics bound only for hell was
still a popular one, even in communities such as these. The Catholic Church only enforced these views, and German Jews had difficulties se ....
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Early Chinese Immigrant
1048 Words - 4 Pages.... ways. China was weakened severely and was taken advantage of by many countries.
Chinese came to America for a myriad of reasons. The main reason was because of the myth of the Gam Saan ("Golden Mountain.") Other reasons were due to overpopulation, poverty, hunger, flooding, high taxes, bad economy, collapsing government, and crop failure. When gold was found in California and short on hand of workers, many Chinese travel into America to get rich quick. A young man in Canton wrote to his brother in Boston saying, "good many Americans speak of California, Oh! Very rich country! O hear good many Americans and Europeans go there very much. I think I shall go to California n ....
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