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- 401: Marranos: A Lost People
- ... them Marranos. The majority of the world population has no idea who the Marranos are. To begin to explain these secret people, one must first receive a lesson in World History. We will begin in the 1492. In school, we are brainwashed to connect the year 1492 with the year that Columbus discovered the New World. Yet, if we look at ... told the truth about his religion and the Laws of Moses. The interesting aspect of Marrano life was the role of the women. The women became the "Spiritual Leaders." Throughout history, it has been shown that the women are the ones who refuse to assimilate. The Marrano women were the, "vast majority of the few who maintained their Judaism." The women ... and Catholic customs. Therefore, tracing the immigration of the Marranos has proven to be a difficult task. The only way of assurance that one was a Marrano was a detailed history of one's family. This was even more difficult to determine since later generations rarely spoke of their Marrano families or they just plain forgot about their past. We ...
- 402: Italy
- ... located in southern Europe. Italy occupies a boot- shaped peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean sea from southern Europe. The country also includes two large islands, Sicily and Sardinia. The History Italy has had a long and colorful history. For much of its history, Italy has been divided into many small and often warring city states. This occurred after the break up of the Roman Empire when much of Europe became feudal. In ...
- 403: Discovery Of Society
- ... to survive and maintain itself afloat. One of these social thinkers was Karl Marx (1818-1883). He was a German political philosopher and revolutionist. Marx was very concern with the history of class struggle. He felt that the history of society was a history itself of the struggles that existed between the ruling and the oppressed social classes. In Marx’s time, slaves were considered the “have not’s” and were the ones ...
- 404: B.f. Skinners Walden Two
- ... It's easy to be successful in a fictitious "experiment" if the author so decrees. As the visit draws to a conclusion, Frazier reveals yet another radical idea. He considers history bunk and does not encourage its study at Walden Two. "I don't care how well historical facts can be known from afar. Is it important to know them at all? I submit that history never even comes close to repeating itself. Even if we had reliable information about the past, we couldn't find a case similar enough to justify inferences about the persent or immediate future. We can make no real use of history as a current guide." He offers a lot of pertinent criticism of history and it's relevance, including the unreliability of its information, its skewed perspectives, etc. But, even ...
- 405: The Indian Awakening in Latin America
- ... values important to the Indians. The new schools do not teach them how to continue to live in harmony with the lands that they have lived with for centuries. The history that is taught in the classrooms is of Euro-centered origin. The history that is important to the Indians is not taught in the new schools. The history that is the true history of Latin America is either ignored or changed and devalued by only being taught as a small part of history. This Euro-centered attitude ...
- 406: Dinosaur History
- When dinosaur bones were first found they thought that they belonged to giant lizards. The word "dinosaur" came from the Greek words deinos, meaning “marvelous” or “terrible,” and sauros, meaning “lizard.” The larger dinosaurs must have seemed to ...
- 407: Abortion - History Of
- Ever since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, Abortion has changed its course in society. With the new decision made by the United States, abortion was now legal. Many abortions were performed before the Supreme ...
- 408: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... control by both small groups like the Teutonic and Livonian knights and by larger entities like the nations of Sweden, Poland, and Russia during the roughly eight centuries of Baltic history. There is no ideal way to depict these very diverse groups of people and areas, so this is an attempt to first look at the area as a whole as ... of Wladyslaw and Jagiello)." (8) "In 1569, under the Union of Lublin, (Lithuania) lost her independence altogether, and until the partitions of Poland in 1772-93, she shared a common history with that country. One of the most enduring results of the Polish regime was the establishment of the Roman Catholic religion in what had hitherto been a practically pagan state ... 1500 members was numerically the largest of the three." Next came Latvia. "The Latvian Party had about 1000 members at the time of its legalization." "Accordinging to the official party history, the Estonian party numbered only 133 members." (23) "Elections" were held in July, 1940, and "Officially, results were to the Kremlin's satisfaction: in Lithuania, 95.5% of the ...
- 409: Walden Two
- ... It's easy to be successful in a fictitious "experiment" if the author so decrees. As the visit draws to a conclusion, Frazier reveals yet another radical idea. He considers history bunk and does not encourage its study at Walden Two. "I don't care how well historical facts can be known from afar. Is it important to know them at all? I submit that history never even comes close to repeating itself. Even if we had reliable information about the past, we couldn't find a case similar enough to justify inferences about the persent or immediate future. We can make no real use of history as a current guide." He offers a lot of pertinent criticism of history and it's relevance, including the unreliability of its information, its skewed perspectives, etc. But, even ...
- 410: Aspirin A Brief History
- Introduction One hundred years ago, a young chemist in Germany made a discovery which, today, continues to ease our aches and pains, reduce our fevers, fight inflammation and save lives. On August 10, 1897, this chemist, Felix Hoffmann, ...
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