History - February 2007

2007-02-26 01:08:07 · 3 answers · asked by zebbie g 2

Look closely....

2007-02-26 00:49:58 · 9 answers · asked by David . 2

With overly wordy writing?

His opening "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", I am sorry, but this makes NO SENSE! NONSENSE???

2007-02-26 00:31:12 · 19 answers · asked by Charles R 1

who knows about history on Romantic Comedy and the genre

2007-02-26 00:28:34 · 1 answers · asked by Tee 2

what would you give it on a rating 1-10?

2007-02-26 00:22:07 · 10 answers · asked by Charles R 1

2007-02-26 00:20:38 · 6 answers · asked by timon p 1

The U.S. Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendant of a slave owned by relatives of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond -- a discovery the civil rights activist called "shocking" on Sunday.

Sharpton learned of his connection to Thurmond, once a prominent defender of segregation, last week through the Daily News, which asked genealogists to trace his roots.

"It was probably the most shocking thing in my life," Sharpton said at a news conference Sunday, the same day the tabloid revealed the story.

Some of Thurmond's relatives said the nexus also came as a surprise to them. Doris Strom Costner, a distant cousin who said she knew the late senator all her life, said Sunday she "never heard of such a thing."

"My momma never would talk to me about nothing like that," Costner said of ancestors who owned slaves. "She only talked to me about good things."

The revelations surfaced after Ancestry.com contacted a Daily News reporter who agreed to have his own family tree done. The intrigued reporter then turned around and asked Sharpton if he wanted to participate. Sharpton said he told the paper, "Go for it."

The genealogists, who were not paid by the newspaper, uncovered the ancestral ties using a variety of documents that included census, marriage and death records.

They found that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.

Thurmond, of South Carolina, was once considered an icon of racial segregation. During his 1948 bid for president, he promised to preserve segregation and, in 1957, he filibustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill.

Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004 on a ticket of racial justice, said he met Thurmond only once in 1991 when he visited Washington, D.C., with the late soul singer James Brown, who knew Thurmond. Sharpton said the meeting was "awkward."

2007-02-26 00:00:29 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

If it were possible and you could pick just one period in history, where and when would you visit? and why? ( you can only be an invisible bystander- no interfering with the past, i.e no telling Lincoln to give the theatre a miss....etc)
Me, i think it would have to be sometime during the american civil war, and witnessing one of the many great battles. It`s just a period that has always interested me.

2007-02-25 21:17:50 · 17 answers · asked by Charles Montgomery Burns 2

or was it also about tthe loss of a way of life too?

2007-02-25 21:01:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The people on the show who do the valuations and know all the stuff about the antiques..... what is their profession and how did they become whatever they are???

2007-02-25 20:44:04 · 2 answers · asked by Valyn 1

source please.

2007-02-25 20:40:27 · 1 answers · asked by DragonballZ656! Kev loves Museee 1

Its about a bomber squadron in route to Pearl Harbor at the start of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. Landing in Pearl Harbor routed to Ford Island Wake Island Manilla and finally Australia.

2007-02-25 20:28:31 · 2 answers · asked by rtfarms68 1

2007-02-25 20:12:23 · 4 answers · asked by MBK 7

like Madonna....etc

2007-02-25 20:01:50 · 6 answers · asked by ambrose j 1

In the toy soldiers song he said that he heard him say Hailies name and lost it..Who was the rapper that said it and what song was it ?

2007-02-25 19:29:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

If an Napoleonic Cuirassier want to promote into Hussar, do he need to be a veteran? And why not hussar, dragoon, carabinier, and lancer are not protected by cuirass or armour like cuirassier? I think the higher the the rank of somebody, the more essential it need to be protected, isn't it?

2007-02-25 18:48:56 · 1 answers · asked by Lai Yu Zeng 4

Some believed it was German subs that sank the Titanic. Germans had well technology and had already had submarines in their navy. Some believed that a German Sub fired at Titanic and caused it to sink.

Another is a coal fire that happened and caused the bulks to weaken. Also caused to put more coal in the steam engine thus causing it to speed up.

Another is that Olympic really sank and not Titanic. Some believed that Titanic and Olympic switched names before the voyage.

What do you believe??

2007-02-25 18:00:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

during the 19th century

a) all of the awnsers below
b) reflected the growth of the rest of the nation
c) provided natural resources for industries in the east
d) fulfilled a growing demand for beef in american markets
e) resulted in the loss of autonomy for native americans

2007-02-25 17:41:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-25 17:36:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

1 - easiness of farming on the plains
2 - decline of cattle ranching
3 - the abundance of fertile soil
4 - transcontinental railroads
or 5 - scarcity of indian attacks

2007-02-25 17:32:48 · 7 answers · asked by lisa d 1

history
did the australis lke or dislike the war?

2007-02-25 17:30:55 · 4 answers · asked by cg 1

What was the LBJ Administration's policy on civil rights? Use an example.

Plz help me OUT. Thank you so Much!

2007-02-25 17:30:44 · 3 answers · asked by US Girl 2

1 - cattle trails that led from texas to kansas
2 - massacre of peaceful plains indians
3 - spread of rail lines into the far west
4 - use of water transportation to move cattle
or

5 - victory of the Sioux at the Battle of One Hundred Slain

2007-02-25 17:27:55 · 3 answers · asked by Beth 1

a - forcing the tribes off disputed land
b - stopping indians attacks on whites
c - strengthening tribal ties to allow easier negotiations with the indians
d - forcing the indians to adopt white culture
or e - removing indians from federal resevervations

(19th century)

2007-02-25 17:24:43 · 2 answers · asked by Beth 1

for example the time period before christ birth is called BC and after his death it is called AD ....
but what is time period called when he was alive???

2007-02-25 17:15:53 · 11 answers · asked by Deep Rocks 2

2007-02-25 17:12:27 · 2 answers · asked by rascal 1

2007-02-25 17:09:31 · 12 answers · asked by naineshnigam 1

2007-02-25 17:06:34 · 5 answers · asked by cg 1

The Sioux, Arapaho, Nez Perce, Pueblo, or Apache?

2007-02-25 16:34:12 · 2 answers · asked by Krystal 2

once again, right before the civil war

2007-02-25 16:33:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous