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… It was the year 1934, I was a adolescent chap, at the time just 16 years old, I joined the "Royall Hollands Vloot" (The Royal Dutch Army), after leaving school early not allowing me to continue my studies due to world war one and the great depressions…

… to attack Constantinople and force Turkey to back out of the war failed miserably, due to such an ill thought out plan, terrible planning skills and bad organization. 's original idea, was simply to send in the Navy, without the support of the army…

… the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, president. Remark during a visit to the U.S.…

… Did lightning hit the zeppelin? Or was one of the most devastating accidents in history nothing but a cunningly planned insurance fraud? Over 60 years ago, airships were the queens of the skies. In the early 1900s, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a brillia…

… since time immemorial. The oldest humanoid skull yet found in Chad is more than one million years old. Sao people lived along the Chari River for thousands of years. Relatively weak chiefdoms were overtaken by he powerful chiefs of what was to become…

… followed a series of events in my life from the age of about five when I was old enough to understand things. My twin brother Bernard was born with a heart defect that required major surgery. His condition was so acute that the doctors told the…

… a cruel and horrible act, has made America a very prosperous place because of it. "Without slavery North America, the most progressive of countries, would be transformed into a patriarchal country" (p 61). Those were the words…

… the death of President Roosevelt, he had no knowledge of the actual bomb project itself and his first information about what was really being done came from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson on April 25th. Stimson himself, was virtual head of the…

… has made countless attempts at creating a movie based upon a historical theme with the characters, settings, costumes, and props as historically accurate as possible whilst providing the audience with an enjoyable movie with the entertaining special…

… single party rule in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia between 1933 and 1945. Answers should consider: methods of dealing with opposition, control of media and education, control of the economy, and war time planning. --- Why is it that Germany's…