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AMERICAN HISTORY
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) inherited his political career on both sides of the family, along with a Baptist tradition of preachers and teachers. Both his father and paternal grandfather were members of the Texas House of Representatives. His ideology, service, and political vision helped ...
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Cleopatria: Stacy Schiff
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Cleopatra, the most famous woman in the ancient world, got lurid coverage Angelina Jolie might find familiar — which should be helpful as Jolie prepares for her possible role in the big-budget movie based on Stacy Schiff's superb new biography, "Cleopatra: A Life." Indeed, as Schiff retells it, ...
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Western Europe, America, and the Industrial Revolution
Western Europe, America, and the Industrial Revolution
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The industrial revolution is not so much so a universal event or a definite process. It implies certain discernable changes in the framework of economic organization and distribution, which when taken together, signify a development which we would ...
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Non-Violence to Violence: Shifts in Resistance during the Civil Rights Movement
Non-Violence to Violence: Shifts in Resistance during the Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights are defined as the basic rights that every country guarantees to its citizens. These include rights of owning private property, the right to vote in a democracy, ...
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U.S. Containment Policy in the Cold War: Successes and Failures
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The term “Containment”, coined by Kennedy in July 1947, characterizes American policy towards the Soviet Union in the post World War II era, comprising a series of attempts to deal with the implications of the Faustian bargain - an idea to ...
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The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials
The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials
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Edward Peters brings together the primary texts that document eleventh-century reform ecclesiology, the appearance of new social groups and their attitudes, the institutional and ...
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American Graffiti
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American Graffiti is a film American directed by George Lucas, released on August 1, 1973 in the United States. The movie shows a group of friends of America in the 1960s. Their names are Curt Henderson (the main character, who must leave the home town the next day to ...
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French Revolution
French Revolution
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The French Revolution is the most important event in the history of France. It started in 1789 and ends November 10, 1799. The meeting of the States General marks the beginning of the revolution and it is the coup of 18 Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte. The ...
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Confucianism, China and Christianity
Confucianism, China and Christianity
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The people of china were atheists and Buddhists initially. They began to convert to religion Christianity as the new emerging religion to satisfy their souls, but these days Chinese people are coming back to their previous ethics and communism as the reasons are quite ...
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Football and Cultural Representation
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The football is special and is the ultimate sport for the masses. This game is famous all over the world. Football is considered to be the sport that is famous among the people of all the age groups. The football competitions are being watched in the whole ...