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Was martin Luther King the most important person in the black civil rights in the 1960's?
... and more apt to resort to prayer than to take decisive action against injustice".Many criticized the theory for being too vague preaching to do good and avoid evil left the planning of the movement too open. Violence can be emotional ...
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Was Oliver Cromwell a villain?
... but his methods were often brutal and bloody. This has led historians to interpret his character and motives in radically different ways.
Oliver Cromwell was a villain as although he used religious reasons to explain his actions, he undermined ...
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Was Oystermouth Castle typical of the castles built in Wales during the middle Ages?
... about 1200, and then it was given back to the Lord of Gower. The Lord of Gower owned Oystermouth Castle after 1200 until about 1330 and the family was called the de Braose family. Alionara de Mowbray was the last ...
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Was Pontefract Castle Once the Greatest Castle In the North'?
... be subject to criticism, as many people have very different perspectives of what greatness is composed of.
WHAT GREATNESS CONSISTS OF
The bullet points below are, in my opinion, what greatness consists of in relation to Castles and, as I said ...
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Was Portchester castle typical of castles built in the medieval period?
... to shut. They also contained other defence methods such as portcullis slots which allowed arrow fire on invaders, these were also called death holes because they were a small slit in the gatehouse roof , just big enough to allow ...
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Was Sand Creek a Victory or a Massacre?
... camp and charged. Many different figures and stories have been told about this devastating event making it difficult to tell if it was a Victory for the army, or, a Massacre. To determine this difficult question, Denver Military Tribunal took ...
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Was the 'rise of the Netherlands' a symptom or a cause of the 'decline of Spain'?
... was estimated at 1.6 million ducados per year from 1601 onwardsiv (NCMH, pp. 440). It had such an unreliable reputation that moneylenders were loath to give money at less than 70% interest (note that the Netherlands could borrow at 3%). ...
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Was the fall of the Bastille the most significant event of 1789?
... men for top jobs and that some privileges would have to go.
However others believe that the creation of the National Assembly is very important. The proclaiming by the third estate of the creation of the National Assembly came after ...
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Was the french revolution successful
... in which the French people lived. On August 11th, 1789, the National Assembly made The Decree Abolishing the Feudal System. This document showed a thaw that was evident in France in terms of social standing. Whereas before the aristocracy had ...
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Was the Medical Renaissance an important period in medical history?
... had the theory of the creator). One man, Roger Bacon dared to commit such an act, and he ended up locked in prison.
However, the Medical Renaissance was a time of rebirth of information, so classical ideas and theories were ...
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Was the policy of Appeasement justified?
... and both countries were unsure whether they could stand the cost of re-armament.
In the 1930's, apart from the Nazis, there was the threat of Stalin's communism which they feared as much as Hitler's Germany. They could not decide whether ...
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Was Truman right to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
... killed and another 1,178 injured. This attack also killed less than 100 Japanese. No more than chance saved three US aircraft carriers, usually stationed at Pearl Harbor but assigned to a different place on the day. Japanese before attacking knew ...
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Weimar Republic: Doomed from start?
... blamed for the war. Besides the
German nation, there were other major European countries that had been
involved with the war, despite the fact that Germany lost and had to
bare most of the responsibility.
Therefore, on 28th of June 1919, the Treaty of ...
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welsh history
... strong military history that took a central role in society as far back as 1200 B.C. (Thompson, 1989, p.735). The old Roman boast "Veni, Vidi, Vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered") might have been applied to other places in ...
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Were contemporaries correct in blaming Hitler for the Reichstag Fire?
... damage to the building.
Hundreds of people flocked towards the building upon seeing it in flames. Hitler, and his henchmen Goering and Goebbels, soon arrived on the scene to investigate along with police, firemen and reporters. Below is a recap of ...
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were the native americans savages?
... our minds are the advertising companies use of Indian tribal names to portray images of strength and ferocity among products and teams such as Cherokee cars (also an Indian tribe) and the "Washington Redskins" with their logo as a "Red ...
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Were the police to blame for not catching Jack the Ripper?
... does not mention this at all, and by his descriptions, we can infer that Dr. Frederick Blackwell saw this murder as nothing more than a savagery attack. This would have wasted a lot of the polices time, as they would ...
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Westward! Ho! -In 1848, gold was found in the California hills of America and the rest, as they say, is history.
... HUMBOLDT REGISTER, observed the trend with a bit of sarcasm. "Roll along, Mr. Immigrant," the HUMBOLDT'S editor wrote, "Any fool can get to California, but it takes a smart man to get away from there."
Of the men, women ...
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What are the main differences between Tacitus and Thucydides?
... as they occur, avoiding the problems Tacitus encounters, and digressions such as those used by Herodotus. Tacitus' writing style is very literary and seems to be concerned with the use of language and the staging of a scene. Tacitus believes ...
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What are the main differences between the beliefs of the Republicans/Nationalists and the Loyalists/Unionists?
... battle of the Boyne. This is a historic Irish war that is celebrated by the orange order each year. The battle of the Boyne is known by many as the defeat of the Catholics over the protestant. After the battle ...
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What are the problems associated with using archaeological evidence as evidence for the Boudican rebellion?
... Roman rule, with the tribes having their weapons confiscated. The remainder of the country still had the tribes in control of their own territories, with their own weapons. Wars between tribes were common. So the southern tribes only had the ...
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What can you learn from Source A about the murder of Polly Nichols?
... when the newspaper talks about the lengths the murderer went to to destroy their victim's bodies, "excess of effort...extraordinary violence". The extract ends by mentioning once again, somewhere amongst the brutality, the evil of the murderer, when it says, "work ...
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What can you learn from source A about the origins of the
... evidence of source A and B for opposition to the British rule. Source C was written by Jinnah. His opinion supports to some extent which is that Muslims and Hindus only want one thing which is Independence and they have ...
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What contribution did Edward Jenner make to medicine?
... theory, Jenner conducted an experiment in which he took matter from a cowpox sore and inserted it into a boy through two cuts. After slight uneasiness in the following days, the boy was perfectly well. He was then inoculated with ...
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What do people in Northern Ireland today think about Bloody Sunday even though it happened 30 years ago?
... lots of people were outraged by the fact that the British Government and Widgery would not accept that it was the armies fault, for example John Kelly, the brother of one of the dead has said " I live and ...