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  • ...ething given or that can be accepted without much questioning with regards to its origin or how it came about. One area that is so vital for the modern w ...Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press.</ref> This ancient city was known to have been a major trading hub for the region that had a group of Assyrian s
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  • ...million people queue up at Six Flags amusement parks across North America to test their nerve against death-defying roller coasters and scream at the sp ...became convinced that his Lone Star State needed a "Disneyland-like Great Southwest Land." <ref>Cashion, Ty, The New Frontier, Historical Publishing Network,
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  • The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to put George Washington in charge of the Continental Army in 1775. Washington ...ion of varied responsibilities, mostly teaching the rowdy underclasses how to be soldiers.
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  • ...e, staked their claim as "The Gun That Won the West." Both were introduced to the market in 1873. Neither was every replaced in the hearts of Westerners ...Massachusetts ended prematurely after he illustrated the proper technique to blow up a raft with an underwater mine with a demonstration on school groun
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  • ...had become "The Most Famous Small Town in America," as boosters would come to call it. ..., Mel, <i>The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Volume I: To 1877</i>, Wadsworth Publishing, 2005, page 322</ref> Over the next three da
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  • ...pg|thumbnail|left|Figure 1. Example of terraces in Arabia, perhaps similar to those developed already by the Neolithic]] The history of water use and technologies to bring water to human societies is long, particularly in some of the world's most arid regi
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  • ...of possessing New Mexico and Arizona territories as they were the gateway to the ports of California. ...s of California, and openness to slavery were factors that had the ability to drastically change the outcome of the Civil War.
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  • ...new perspectives on their identities amidst the chaos of war. The ability to consider themselves Irish immigrants vanished when they donned a blue or gr ...over ethnicity.<ref>This article draws from research previously submitted to Arizona State University by this author. See Carol Costello, “Ethnicity a
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  • ...an American/Black civil rights movements are the obvious events leading up to the political revolutions that ensued. Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the ...t their indigenous ancestry and culture were important to them, as well as to the land they had lost from Spanish and American imperialism.
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  • ...n armies had individuals who could use scientific ingenuity and innovation to rapidly build and repair roads, bridges, railways. Unlike the Confederacy, ...I visited a World War II museum near Boston, MA, and I had the opportunity to send a message using German engineer Arthur Scherbius's famous Enigma ciphe
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  • ...l man who had his thunderous temper, and a commanding leader who was prone to binges of sloppy drunkenness. He was determined in his actions and proceede ...usion that by indirect association or direct action, Jim Bowie contributed to his demise.
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  • ...and William T. Sherman innately understood what needed to be done in order to end the war and they courageously performed these duties. ...slavery altered him to a degree but more practical implications caused him to act. By eliminating slaves from the South's war machine, Rebel forces would
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  • ...er praying he “felt more composed in [his] mind and perfectly reconciled to [his] fate”<ref>McCarter, 180.</ref> How can a few words to an unproven entity ease a man’s mind and perhaps heal his body? Was the r
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  • “But I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, s ...level of degradation suffered by a slave and that the right Americans had to trade in human beings was a bad law.
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  • ...many of the 19th Century medical sects created, naturopathy has persevered to this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number of influence ...t and survival into 21st century. Cayleff's book is an intriguing addition to the medical and social history of the United States.
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  • ...southwest from Pennsylvania down to the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry. To the east of the mountain was the town of Frederick, Maryland, less than 50 ...bloodiest single day in U.S. military history, Antietam, which in turn led to a new war aim for President Abraham Lincoln. The Battle of South Mountain,
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  • ...n the Medieval and Modern periods, new practices emerged that allowed them to be integrated within educational, government, and private institutions. ...g duties, may have used part of the temple compounds as areas for patients to be healed for a variety of diseases and sicknesses. <ref>For more on early
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  • ...d the rate of the transportation of goods to the East and migrant settlers to the West. ...region over several decades; however, the outbreak of war in 1874 was due to the encroachment of white buffalo hunters onto Native American soil, the la
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  • [[File:Confederate_monument_Elmira_NY.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Monument to Confederate dead in Elmira, NY]] ...southern United States, it is not unusual to find monuments and memorials to the Confederate dead in many small towns. In fact, these sculptural pieces,
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  • ...ommoners to establish faith and church that met their needs and gave birth to the Radical or Popular Reformation. ...the outbreak. The German Peasants, especially the wealthier groups, wanted to safeguard hard-earned prosperity that they believed was under threat from t
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