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TRUMAN DOCTRINE
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
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On March 12, 1947, President Harry Truman was presented before a joint session of Congress to deliver one of the most important speeches in American history. After outlining the situation in Greece, gave what was later known by the name of the "Truman Doctrine", which ...
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Industrial Revolution in England
The constellation of some ideal conditions for a renewal of the industry gave England the title: "The motherland of the industrial revolution."
As the transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society of the early 18th century began, the manual labor was gradually replaced by machine work. ...
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact is a written agreement made by a consensus of the new settlers who came to New Plymouth in November 1620. They crossed the ocean on the Mayflower, which anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Mayflower Compact ...
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The Champagne Fairs
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In the middle Ages, the Champagne fairs were held as a yearly cycle of operating fairs apprehended in France towns, in Champagne, as well as Brie regions. Starting from the birth in local farming as well as stock fairs, and thus in the reviving economic history of ...
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Politics in the First Crusade
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In 1095 Pope Urban II incited the Crusades with a speech urging Christian armies to free the holy sites, especially Jerusalem, from Muslim control. The Crusades sparked a fire of religious fervor among thousands of young knights and other Christian believers. Other crusaders were adventurers, ...
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The Second Sex
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The Second Sex is considered a pioneering treatment on the subject of women's personal and social freedom. Simone de Beauvoir, who was a prolific writer, was most famous for The Second Sex because of its profound impact upon the feminist movement. Though some feminists have concerns with ...
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Rise of Christianity: Power versus popularity
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Catholic teaching strives to avoid two pitfalls in the relation between faith and reason: an excessive rationalism that dismisses faith as superstition, and an excessive fideism that denies all power to natural reason to know God and God's attributes without the help of divine revelation. The faith-reason relation ...
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Evolution of Historiography in Greek Civilization
Evolution of Historiography in Greek Civilization
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Several Greek authors find vivid descriptions of hard class struggle between rich and poor, the exploiters and the exploited, between those who had all the rights and to those who had none. In the course of historical development in Greece, ...
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TEXTILE WORKERS IN BRITAIN
Textile Workers in Britain
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This paper compares the experiences of textile workers in cotton and wool in Britain from the mid 17th century to the mid 20th century. The paper emphasizes the contrast between the responses of labor in Lancashire and Yorkshire to industrialization and shows that ...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander the great
Alexander the great
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Alexander was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, who united the city-states of Greece for the purpose of making war with the Persians. In 338 BCE Philip II, through a complex and efficient military system, along with a knack for diplomacy, ...