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  • ...wise, young and old, will discover for themselves to what Graves is saying good-bye. ...socio-economic class as himself. Their dress, deportment, and manners were all vastly different from what Graves had previously been exposed. Graves remem
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  • ...s many details of New Kingdom Egypt while adding a healthy dose of fiction to make it an enjoyable family film. ...ly places the events in the proper period, and further examination reveals that it also depicts many details from the period correctly.
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  • ...e field advantage. Dr. Army's delves deeply into a aspect of the Civil War that most other historians have only discussed in passing. ...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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  • ...k advantage of it and funded privateering outfits during the war. Needless to say, privateers were incredibly risky investments. ...g" and explains why the dangers of piracy ultimately convinced the British to end its conflict with the United States.
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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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  • ...tal, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty. I have tried to balance the scales.”<ref>Paul Fussell, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/produ ...y covered in mud, blood, and grime. Faces smeared with dirt often betrayed to soldiers’ brave façade as tear stains found their way through blood and
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  • ...e not been able to fully tell the story of these men and women, but access to new archives of the American soldiers and Soviet archives have provided a m ...ives. As part of the third generation of scholars, Carroll not only tried to tell the story of veterans in Spain, he examined their broader roles in Ame
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  • ...wise, young and old, will discover for themselves to what Graves is saying good-bye. ...socio-economic class as himself. Their dress, deportment, and manners were all vastly different from what Graves had previously been exposed. Graves remem
    6 KB (999 words) - 19:38, 8 March 2019
  • [[File:with the old breed book.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|]] ...ocumentaries, and even Hollywood productions have proven to be accurate as to the details of this theater of war. Nothing, however, can substitute for a
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  • ...Augustinian perspective there is nothing inherently wrong in pagan thought that makes it inadmissible in Christian theology--though useful, it is simply no
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  • ====History of the Early Republic Book Reviews, Author Interviews and Booklists==== *[[The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?]]
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  • ====Prelude to the Great War==== *[[Why did the Battle of the Somme largely fail to achieve its objectives?]]
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  • ...al context of their time and probes the deeper casts of mind that led them to craft the Constitution, preserve the union, or oversee the corruption of th ...tioning to be Christ, he was all too aware how the story would end – and that the outcome was out of his hands.)
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  • ...lso sharing many striking characteristics. As Wood notes, one could argue that Americans were merely an exaggerated version of English citizens, expanding ...es did have revolutionary ideas for the time, but modern historians failed to consider changing perceptions of long-standing concepts such as equality, i
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  • ...the 1930s: why did profound economic depression and political dissent fail to shake the foundations of government, producing reform rather than revolutio ...lacing them, with considerable success, in a tradition of fitful responses to industrialization and modernity.
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  • ...utions of the 1800s (notably the completion of the Erie Canal which helped to cement New York’s position as one of the premier manufacturing centers in ...n to lodge complaints. The gap widened between the two groups until nearly all connections severed under the heat of trade unionism in the 1830s and later
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  • ...rsity in 1962. He used these lectures as the basis of four chapters of the book and then expanded a little by writing a conclusion. Despite its length, Vis ...established in New England the idea of the protestant work ethic: be true to God, pray, and make money.
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  • ...ny later explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and his accounts did much to encourage the development of cartography. ...Many have regarded his account as a delightful work of fiction and believe that was a liar. Were Marco Polo’s travels were based on actual events and ar
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  • ...ellee cross-appealed from the District Court's grant of declaratory relief to Roe and Hallford. ...t on appeal from specific denial of injunctive relief and the arguments as to both injunctive and declaratory relief are necessarily identical. P. 123.
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  • There are some literary characters that become part of the culture and have entered the popular imagination. A sele ...ove a good yarn. However, the figure of Robinson Crusoe is widely believed to have been based on a real historical figure. In this article, there is a di
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  • ...violence is used to constitute an altogether different form of government, to bring about the formation of a new body politic, where the liberation from ...he French Revolution’s legacy continue to be debated today, did it serve to lay the foundations of Republicanism (a slippery term in many historical ci
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