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- 2271: Australia
- ... Sydney; National Maritime Museum, Sydney; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Ballarat Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales. GOVERNMENT Form of Government. Federal parliamentary state. Constitution. Took effect Jan. 1, 1901. Sovereign. British monarch represented by governor-general. Governor-General. Appointed by British monarch on advice of local government ministers; acts on advice of Federal Executive Council. Prime Minister. Leader of majority party in Parliament; term, as long as party retains majority. Cabinet. Selected by prime minister from ...
- 2272: Aum Shinkyria
- ... change from what Asahara felt was a grim situation in China to that of a Utopia. However, this got wildly out of hand almost immediately. First, Asahara went to the government to ask for official religious corporation status. This gave him and his cult protection from taxes, from government, and from the law in general. They were free to do what they want, and this went to Asahara s head. He felt so confident in this new status that ... of mass destruction, and began murdering more and more people. The final straw was when the Aum tear-gassed the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 and injuring 5000 others. The government moved in and shut the whole operation down. So cults form everywhere and everyday. They form with high hopes, good intentions, and a dream for a Utopian society. But ...
- 2273: Andrew Jackson 2
- ... favored a "hard money" policy that was based strictly on currency, or gold and silver. Jackson also attacked the bank as a monopoly. He said its vast powers threatened democratic government because it meddled in politics. All the events that Jackson experienced along with his personal feelings helped him to make the decision to veto the bill that would charter the ... plan to get rid of the national bank had many negatives, it did have one positive result. By removing the national bank, he had removed a great threat to democratic government. The national bank could no longer use its strength to effect government. Jackson s war with the national bank ended in failure. He inadvertently caused two depressions and made our money system worse than when he first took office.
- 2274: Alexander I
- ... The country was very excited at the prospects of Alexander's reign. There were great hopes for the future of Russia and an anticipation of a more liberal form of government and increased freedom. Some hoped for an end to the institution of serfdom, which sapped the nation of its energy. At first, the Tsar did little to discourage these aspirations ... served at his will, it corrupted him. The longer he used this method of ruling Russia, the more difficult it became for him to return to the principals of good government and the role of the monarch he had learned in his youth. Out of a sincere desire to innovate, Alexander considered a constitution and the limitation of the autocracy, but ... Taganrog, it is claimed to have faked his own death, disappearing to become a monk named Kuzmich, wandering the forests of Siberia for years afterward as a hermit. The Soviet Government fanned the flames of these rumors when it announced his coffin had been opened in the 1920's and was found to be empty. Alexander I lacked the consistency ...
- 2275: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... After her death Hitler returned to Vienna, where for some time lived quite well. While living in Vienna lived of the money left to him by his parents and also government grants issued to him for being classified as a orphan student. But these financial resources were soon exhausted and he drifted through various menial jobs without ever setting a definite ... realized that his ways of illegally trying to gain power would no longer work for the time being. In December 1924 he rebuilt his NAZI Party without interference from those government officials he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression Struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot. This explanation was widely accepted by many Germans. Promising ... received 13,418,547 votes, or 36%. Hindenburg took in 19,359,983 votes, 53% of the total. Although they had lost, the Nazis showed tremendous popularity and the current government seemed unstable at best. During this unstable time in the Reichstag rumors started to circulate that the former chancellor was back stabbing the President. President Hindenburg immediately appointed Hitler ...
- 2276: Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
- ... unpopular. Hitler was able to take over half of Europe with a country that was heavily in debt and had poor morale. He even negotiated to surpass all levels of government and declare himself dictator. Hitler was a gifted painter although most, if not all, of his works were never published. His paintings were done in water colors and mostly of ... in parliament in Germany at the time. Their popularity rose almost 37% in one term. There were several factors involved in this. The first was the failure of previous other government parties to deliver Germany out of poverty. The other chancellors had failed and they lost in a vote of non-confidence. Hitler was appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933. Hindenburg ... crisis where a general married a woman who did not comply with the moral code, so Hitler used the opportunity to remove the defense minister and completely take over the government. There is only speculation about how Hitler finally assembled a large enough army to wage war. Germany was heavily in debt but Hitler arranged to bring it out of ...
- 2277: Adam Smith 2
- ... in turn create more jobs, and the national income would grow. Smith believed that free trade and a self-regulating economy would result in social progress. He criticized the British government s high tariffs and other limits on individual freedom in trade. He preached that government need only preserve law and order, enforce justice, defend the nation, and provide for a few social needs that could not be met through the market. Smith s argument for a hands off government policy toward business and his analysis of economic forces laid down the basic ideas of economic liberalism. Although this view has undergone considerable modification by economists in the light ...
- 2278: Dalai Lama
- ... with honors, conducted before a vast audience of monk scholars. In 1950, at age 16, His Holiness was called upon to assume full political power as head of State and Government when Tibet was threatened by the might of China. In 1954 he went to Peking to talk with Mao Tse-Tung and other Chinese leaders, including Chou En-Lai and ... was forced into exile in India after the Chinese military occupation of Tibet. Since 1960 he has resided in Dharamsala, aptly known as "Little Lhasa", the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. In the early years of exile, His Holiness appealed to the United Nations on the question of Tibet, resulting in three resolutions adopted by the General Assembly in 1959, 1961 and 1965. In 1963, His Holiness promulgated a draft constitution for Tibet, which assures a democratic form of government. In the last two decades, His Holiness has set up educational, cultural and religious institutions, which have made major contributions towards the preservation of the Tibetan identity and its ...
- 2279: Antoine Lavoisier
- By: Anonymous Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (lah vwah ZYAY) was one of the best-known French scientists and was an important government official. His theories of combustion, his development of a way to classify the elements and the first modern textbook of chemistry led to his being known as the father of ... systematically. His list included many compounds, which were thought to be elements at the time. Lavoisier worked out reactions in chemical equations that respect the conservation of mass. As a government official, Lavoisier was successful in creating agricultural reform, serving as a tax collection official, and overseeing the government's manufacture of gunpowder. On 1775 he was made commissioner of gunpowder. He was asked to improve the quality of French gunpowder. This boosted his career. Politically, Lavoisier was ...
- 2280: Teddy Bear
- ... from scandals in New York State, accepted Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for governor in 1898. Roosevelt won and served with distinction. As president, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none. Roosevelt emerged spectacurlarly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the northwest. During Roosevelt's presidency, the government filed suits against 43 other corporations. In major cases, the government ended John D. Rockerfeller's oil trust and James B. Duke's tobacco trust. Roosevelt steered the united States more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a ...
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