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- 1211: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... by an internal weakness in the Empire due to the transformation that was taking place--the feebleness and impotence of the despotism and its replacement by oligarchic regimes an the civil wars that followed. This lessened the strength and protective power of the Empire and the period of 250 years after the the Latin conquest proved to be insufficient for it ... the Ottomans in 1453 was the use of cannons or employing the gunpowder against the strength of the walls. The might of his army consisted of a large fleet of war vessels, an army of about 150 000 men, including 12 000 janissaries--soldiers taken as little children from their families (even from families of infidels) and specially trained in military ... cofront an empire which spread its territory on almost all the Balkan peninsula and Asia Minor, an empire which had the best military machine of the age, fighting the Holy War against the unbelievers. For eleven centuries it has been the center of this magnificent civilization of Bizantium which has preserved the legacy of the Ancient world and gave the ...
- 1212: Solidarity-A New Hope Of Breaking Communist Ruling
- ... ability, and all benefits, according to need. From 1945 to 1975 the number of countries under Communist rule increased greatly, partly because of the way the victorious powers in World War II divided the world among them, and partly because the revolutionary Communist movements gained strength in various parts of the Third World (Meyer). Rapid political changes in Eastern Europe, the ... its suffering and its disappointments, from its hopes and aspiration. Our union is the product of the revolts of Polish society after three decades of the suppression of human and civil rights, of political discrimination and economic exploitation. It is a protest against the existing system of sovereign exploitation. We demanded not only better living conditions, though life was wretched and ... poor family struggling under the Nazi occupation. Two years after he was born, his father died and Lech was having hard time growing up in a Poland devastated by the war. He saw other countries trying to divide Poland in a half or completely trying to take it off the map. At the age of fourteen, he entered a two- ...
- 1213: Gideon vs Wainwright
- ... in this trial is the further proof of the legitimacy of the dominance of the federal government over the states. The power of the Federal government has grown since the Civil War, in which legitimacy of the federal government was firmly established. The southern states felt that the true power was invested in the state, and that their secession was justified. After ... the citizens set forth by the constitution are not infringed by the state. Works Cited Goodman, Elaine and Walter. The Rights of the People. Toronto: Doubleday, 1971. Asch, Sindey H. Civil Rights and Responsibilites under the Constitution. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1968. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963). Wilson, James, and John J. DiIulio, Jr. American Government, ...
- 1214: John Adams
- ... at home and abroad. Hamilton made bitter attacks on Adams’ policies (Elser, 1993). The fiscal situation was desolate. The national debt and the threat of what appeared to be inescapable war caused great stress, opposition, and even occasional violence (Onuf, 1993). Matters only became worse. The Federalist Congress created a provisional army which, though needed, added to the financial strain. Congress ... congressional measures, citizens, including Jefferson, began to fear that the provisional army would not just fight France, but also use their military strength to attack protesting Americans, hence beginning a civil war. That Sedition Act had no immediate impact may be evidence that the Federalists were acting out of paranoia in their immediate frenzy to stop domestic opposition (Ferling, 1992). These ...
- 1215: Wendell Phillips
- ... the Constitution. He attacked it because it supported slavery. He had married Ann Terry Greene. Greene had been taught by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison and Phillips became friends. As the Civil War approached he became more and more certain that violence must be employed to abolish slavery. When the war came he was at the head of the emancipation movement. In the years after the war Wendell Phillips demanded that actions be taken to protect blacks and loyal whites ...
- 1216: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... to his personal affairs . In those three years he married Edith Kermit Carow and built a home near Oyster Bay, Long Island. He had been appointed to the U.S. Civil Service by President Harrison . His defeats in his political career helped him get this job. A position he held from 1889 to 1895.In 1895 he accepted the presidency of the Board of Police Commissioners in New York City. In this position he called for war with Spain , and occasionally embarrassed his superiors.At the start of the Spanish-American war he readily resigned to join his friend Leonard Wood in organizing the first volunteer Calvary, but widely know as the"Rough Riders" . Later he became the leader of the ...
- 1217: Native American Women
- ... her husband by tossing his belongings out of their residence. Women's role in tribal governance was often influential in matrilineal societies, as among the Iroquois, in which the principal civil and religious offices were kept within maternal lineages. The tribal matriarch or a group of tribal matrons nominated each delegate, briefed him before each session, monitored his legislative record, and ... the Southwest, the men did most of the field work, house building, weaving, cloth manufacturing, and animal skin processing. Female prestige among the Iroquois grew greater after the Revolution-ary War, and male prestige ebbed due to continual losses and defeats and the inability to do much hunting due to scarcity of game. By the nineteenth century, mothers played a greater ... divorce, unlike the uncertainty of custody in earlier times. Among many Southeast tribes the women were influential in tribal councils and in some places they cast the deciding vote for war or peace. The Cherokee designated a female as "Beloved Woman," through whom they believed the Great Spirit spoke. Consequently, her words were always heard but not necessarily heeded. However, ...
- 1218: Jane Addams 2
- ... old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot."(Pg.47 Ch.1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the newcomers who could never really get ... political leader who served for sixteen years as an Illinois state senator from 1854 -1870. A friend and admirer of Abraham Lincoln, John also fought as an officer in the Civil War. He was quiet and hard working and had a hatred of tyranny and injustice in the world. At the age of seven years old, a new woman entered the ...
- 1219: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... mood and settings of the surrounding atmosphere. In the first half of the twentieth century, the atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache 102: 14). The social genre of the time gave way to the broad appeal to American life and the focus of freedom leading to original stories and historical themes (Folsom 3: 953). Of course, the past would remain a constant influence. Some common topics were the Civil War and the settlement of western U.S. frontier life (Magill 1: 174). Stephen Vincent Benet took all these factors into mind during his life as a twentieth century writer/ ...
- 1220: The Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan
- ... all of Japan. Historical examples bear out the fears of the Meiji Oligarchy; in 1467 the Ashikaga Shogun failed to control many of the fiefs and because of this a civil war raged in Japan.Footnote35 The centralization of power allowed the Meiji government to have taxing authority over all of Japan and pursue national projects.Footnote36 The unity of Japan also ... the Imperial Will absolute right to govern.Footnote43 The symbols of the Emperor and the tradition of Confucianism did not end with the end of the Meiji era or world war two. Today the idea of filial piety is still strong, multiple generations of a family still usually live together even in cramped Japanese housing. The religion of Shinto that ...
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