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… the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch trials, Historian B appears to have the most reasonable and/or valid reason for the crazed dilemma. According to him, it was the boredom of 3 young teenage minds, and the anxiety of the adults that…

… fast as the Black Plague. This epidemic caused chaos among neighbors in a community. The chronology of events describe an awful time during the seventeenth century. The people who accused other people of being witches told stories that the mind just…

… 1692 resulted in nineteen innocent men and women being hanged, one man pressed to death, and in the deaths of more than seventeen who died in jail. It all began at the end of 1691 when a few girls in the town began to experiment with magic by gathering…

… longest routes in the United States in the prerail- road era. It was about nine-hundred or so miles long. The original eastern terminus was Franklin, Missouri, but later the town was destroyed by a massive flood and the terminus was changed to Independ…

… early years he was under the moderating influence of relatives and court officials; however, by the late 130s he had decided that the essentially defensive foreign policy of his predecessors was not going to solve his foreign problems. In 133 he launched…

… Salter’s “Welcome to Hiroshima” materializes as a visual holiday to a different country. However, the detail of imagery reveals a different sort of poem. The theme of the poem is a gloomy look at how humans destroy each other. The careful imagery…

… I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 27th, 1722. I was a leader of the fight against British Colonial rule, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. I am the cousin of John Adams, who became the second President of the United…

… was mostly small groups hunters and gatherers. Farming became widespread between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D. Only 20% of Japan's land was farmable. Because of the scarcity of farmable land the imperial court established the six-year Equal fields…

… is in San Francisco in year 1906. It measured 7.8 degrees. Many building were destructed and several hundred of people got killed. The earthquake also started a fire, which destroyed the central business district. The earthquake happened…

… raising what they think to be the "perfect child." It is common for a parent to want his/her child to be the best at what ever they do, but parents sometimes take it too far. Parents of the 90's seem to put too much pressure on their kids, which does…