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- 981: Severan Copy Of Athena Parthenos And 13th Century Virgin And
- ... 180, only to inherit an empire that was becoming increasingly harder to uphold , and imperial order was being threatened. Eventually, he was assassinated , and the Roman world was thrown into civil discord. Septimius Severus emerged as the new emperor in 193 after proclaiming himself to be Marcus Aurelius¹ son. 2 The Severan¹s hometown was called Lepcis Magna, on the coast ... leafed with gold, again making her inaccessible as she was too valuable to be used in any interactive plans as the Virgin was.8 Furthermore, Athena is a symbol of war- she dons armor, weapons, and a protective shield, while the Virgin and child are a divine Christian symbol of peace and caring. The two statues differ greatly in subject even ... as a symbol for the hope that those who believe are loved . Works Cited George, Roy ³The Goddess Athena² , homepage, http://www.goddess-athena.org (1998) Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in American Collections. University Press, Ny 1978 Tansey, Kleiner. Gardner¹s Art Through the Ages , temth edition. New York : Hartcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996
- 982: Ku Klux Klan
- ... beat, and warn were designed to overcome Republican majorities in their states. In most states Republican authorities were unable to suppress the violence, fearing that they would provoke outright race war if they sent their mostly black state militias against the Klan. In many areas Democratic law-enforcement officials were themselves Klan members or sympathizers. Even where local officers took action ... anti-labor-union themes under the slogan "100 Percent Americanism." Often taking the law into their own hands, mobs of white-robed, white-hooded Klansmen punished "immorality" and terrorized "un-American" elements. At its height in the early 1920s, the Klan had between three and four million adherents and exercised great political power in many southern, western, and midwestern states. The ... and it experienced a definite resurgence in the South in response to the desegregation of public schools following the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1957) and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Membership reached a historic low of 1,500, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1974 but climbed again to 11,500 in ...
- 983: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was very important to the past history of our country. He helped to abolish slavery in this country and kept the American Union from splitting apart during the Civil War. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. With his gift for swapping stories and making friends, he became quite popular and was elected to the Illinois legislature in ...
- 984: Ku Klux Klan 2
- Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority groups in America. Especially in the South, during ... Klan-busting adventures. It portrays the dangers of falling into the vicious business of hate-mongering very effectively and makes us think hard about the racial and social problems facing American society as it enters a new century.
- 985: William Lloyd Garrison
- William Lloyd Garrison: Uncompromise During Times of Compromise William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was an American journalist and adamant abolitionist. Garrison became famous in the 1830s for his uncompromising denunciations of slavery. Garrison lived a troubled childhood. His family lived in poverty. In addition, his father ... the wounds of racial tension. His armies of allies grew, but this was gradual. Nevertheless, with no real suggestions on how the slavery issue could be resolved, he accepted the Civil War as necessary. Garrison even went as far as to say that the South should just secede from the Union ( No union with slave-holders! ) Garrison did not attempt to ...
- 986: Wyatt Earp
- ... Illinois. Wyatt was given the name of his father's Army captain. When Wyatt was quiet young, his two older brother, James and Virgil, went off to fight in the Civil War for the Union. A story is told in which Wyatt tried to run away and join the Army, but his father caught him in a corn field and took him ... a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp and three of his brothers, together with the American frontiersman Doc Holliday, participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfighter in 1881, during which they killed several suspected cattle rustlers. The following year, Ike Clanton attempted to kill ...
- 987: Eugenics
- ... were in agreement. They believed in the “righteous idea”16 of wiping out social defect through the marriage restrictions. This was also applied in sterilization laws. As for segregation, the American Eugenics Society published pro-segregation pamphlets explaining how it would be beneficial, as opposed to simply sterilization.17 As for immigration issues, in 1924, eugenicists successfully lobbied for an Immigration ... of classes, no matter what their mental condition. In the U.S., many of the state sterilization laws had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court by the time World War I broke out. As a result of this, in 1924, the Virginia Legislature passed a sterilization statute designed to meet the constitutional objections.27 The advocates of the legislation needed ... Bell, ended with the sterilization order being held up, which meant that the Virginia Legislature had accomplished their goal.30 These laws epitomized the effect of the eugenics movement on civil liberties. As the eugenics movement spread, the impact became bigger and the threads of social change of the movement entangled themselves deeply in the fabric of society. In the ...
- 988: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... been examined in Salem Village, and “jails were being filled with up to 150 accused persons from many towns including Salem, Topsfield and Andover… Dozens of people under excruciating religious, civil and family pressures found themselves confessing to being witches” (“Witch”). There were also reported instances of farm and domestic animals being possessed by the devil; in fact 2 dogs were ... witchcraft affair of 1692 was very peculiar, even for its time. “In terms of the number of people accused and executed, it was the worst outbreak of witch persecution in American history, affecting not only Salem Village but eight other communities of Essex County, Massachusetts, as well as Fairfield County, Connecticut” (Matossian). This also happened quite awhile after the last witchscare ... spiritual nature. It has been suggested that this “hysteria” happens periodically in societies, but the culprit may take on different forms. During the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, many innocent people were unfairly labeled as Communists during the McCarthy hearings. This was a time when our society’s greates fear was Communism. Also, since the 1960’s, ...
- 989: Brief History Of The Dominican
- ... 1980s. The nation did not enjoy full independence until 1844, when it emerged from twenty-two years of occupation by Haiti; this liberation came later than that of most Latin American countries. Reacceptance of Spanish rule from 1861 to 1865 demonstrated the republic's insecurity and dependence on larger powers to protect it and to define its status. Dominican vulnerability to intervention from abroad was also made evident by the United States military occupation of 1916-24 and by a more limited action by United States forces during a brief civil war in 1965. Politically, Dominican history has been defined by an almost continuous competition for supremacy among caudillos of authoritarian ideological convictions. Political and regional competition overlapped to a great ...
- 990: ATF
- ... separated from the Internal Revenue Service by Treasury Department Order No. 120-1 (former No. 221), effective 1 July 1972. Notwithstanding, ATF traces its roots across two hundred years of American history. In 1789 under the new Constitution, the first Congress imposed a tax on imported spirits to offset a portion of the Revolutionary War debt assumed from the states. Administration of duties fell to the Department of the Treasury, whose Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, had suggested them. Congressional lawmakers were favorably impressed by the results ... an association of grain dealers, politicians and revenue agents that had defrauded the government of millions of dollars in distilled spirits taxes. Responding to the scandal, Congress undertook the first Civil Service reform acts, acknowledging formally that effectiveness of law depends on the quality of its administrators. The commissioner's annual report for 1877 refers to his office as the ...
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