History - August 2007

2007-08-09 20:43:47 · 11 answers · asked by telluride 2

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2007-08-09 19:09:00 · 9 answers · asked by Matt 1

Well, basically i want to know what the reasons for the Rwanda genocide were. If anyone knows what happened then please help me out! Your generosity will be rewarded with the best answer being chosen at the end giving you some points :)

I am not sure but i think that the Tutsi tribe oppressed the Hutu tribe and eventually the Hutu rebelled. However Im not sure so please help.

2007-08-09 17:58:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ben Franklin's 'Join or Die' cartoon was possibly one of the most influential political cartoons in American history. You probaly know that the cartoon uses a snake to represent the divided colonies, and was meant to encourage the colonies to unite...
However, Ben Franklin omitted one of the thirteen colonies...Do you know which it was, and why he did that?

Thanks in advance 8)

2007-08-09 17:44:27 · 4 answers · asked by roo 1

If it was asked berfore I don't care...

2007-08-09 17:32:56 · 23 answers · asked by Darkness 5

2007-08-09 16:37:18 · 6 answers · asked by johnbomb 1

The original pilgrims. The colonist even before the revolutionary war? My family tree dates back to the 1600's here in the US that was before it was a country! Europe must have been bad at the time, what are some of the contributing factors? Was it cruel treatment of it's people, the never ending empires? What were the real O.G's looking for when they settled here on this fine continent? I'm sure it wasn't money originally. But then it turned to slavery which made the U.S the richest country in the world. A dark spot on our history. Do you really think Christopher Columbus wanted to build an empire? Or was the course of this country changed over and over until what we have today? I just hope the U.S.A doesn't turn into the historical Europe that once ruled it's people with an Iron fist. Which brings me to my next question. Should we strive for freedom, or for domination and perfection? Is that the real American way?

2007-08-09 16:24:44 · 9 answers · asked by lvillejj 4

2007-08-09 16:07:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

1st to George Bush? And can you put their term on their too? Thanks!

2007-08-09 16:01:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 14:57:29 · 16 answers · asked by j_jagannathreddy 1

During the 18th century the term “Prime Minster” came to refer to the monarch’s most senior minister.

2007-08-09 13:59:16 · 6 answers · asked by hotttstuff2006@sbcglobal.net 1

2007-08-09 13:22:13 · 2 answers · asked by hollylynn 1

2007-08-09 12:48:25 · 17 answers · asked by gene c 1

For Me They Are
1 Glory
2 Bridge On The River Kwai
3 A Bridge Too Far
4 Enemy At The Gates
5 Saving Private Ryan
6 Gettysburg
7 We Were Soldiers
8 Zulu
9 Midway
10 Zulu dawn
Whats Your Opinion?

2007-08-09 12:06:07 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it were the Gurkhalis from Nepal who served British in the two world wars. They fought with their daggers against guns of enemies. People even say that even Samurai's were afraid of Gurkha. They still serve the British and Indian army and are one of hte strongest batallion in the whole army even in these days where there are a lot of modern weapons.

2007-08-09 11:45:57 · 12 answers · asked by aerorabins 2

Was he an important person what made him disappear

2007-08-09 11:45:40 · 10 answers · asked by El Greco 2

My vote is for the Aeneid.

2007-08-09 11:38:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 10:52:34 · 5 answers · asked by ccmogan 1

2007-08-09 10:49:54 · 1 answers · asked by Lee V 1

"ELEGY WRITTEN IN
A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD"

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient solitary reign.

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
The ****'s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
Or busy housewife ply her evening care:
No children run to lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share,

Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the Poor.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault
If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise,
Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre:

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page,
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll;
Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.

Th' applause of list'ning senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes,

Their lot forbad: nor circumscribed alone
Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;
Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,

The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,
To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,
Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.

Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect
Some frail memorial still erected nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd,
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,
The place of fame and elegy supply:
And many a holy text around she strews,
That teach the rustic moralist to die.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?

On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
Some pious drops the closing eye requires;
E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead,
Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;
If chance, by lonely contemplation led,
Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, --

Haply some hoary-headed swain may say,
Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn
Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn;

'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
His listless length at noontide would he stretch,
And pore upon the brook that babbles by.

'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn,
Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove;
Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn,
Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.

'One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill,
Along the heath, and near his favourite tree;
Another came; nor yet beside the rill,
Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he;

'The next with dirges due in sad array
Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne,-
Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay
Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'

The Epitaph

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melacholy marked him for her own.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send:
He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.

By Thomas Gray (1716-71).

2007-08-09 10:40:42 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yet again Italians harmed America for their own interests and got away with it, the Navy must have known it was Lucky Luciano, as everyone knew those people controlled the docks

2007-08-09 10:15:20 · 3 answers · asked by donahuecallmephil 1

2007-08-09 09:03:09 · 21 answers · asked by Leaving on a jetplane 3

2007-08-09 08:19:14 · 15 answers · asked by sris 2

White Europeans were responsible for the creation of Western civilization, & other great things like Ancient Greece, The Roman Empire, & the Renaissance in Europe.
They also created most of the first world nations of today.(All of Europe, Russia, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Uruguay.)
They were also responsible for great xploreres like Lief Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, Francisco Pizarro.
Great artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Great inventors like John Logie Baird, Karl Benz, Tim Berners-Lee. Great philosophers like Archimedes, Aristotle, Socrates, Nietchze.
But when some people talk about history they act like the only things White people ever did was own slaves, & subjugate/torment non-Europeans, & cause them misery.

2007-08-09 08:07:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

1860 besides the right to secede. The Federal government was not nearly as intrusive in the 1800's as it is today.

2007-08-09 08:04:26 · 8 answers · asked by meg 7

Native Americans and the Vikings...
What was it like for Native Americans and Vikings when they met? Was it hostile? Friendly? How did they interact, etc...
Do you know if their are any records of their meeting?
I'd appreciate any information you can give me on this (even links to helpful websites)

Thanks in advance!

2007-08-09 08:01:05 · 5 answers · asked by roo 1

Native Americans and the Vikings...
What was it like for Native Americans and Vikings when they met? Was it hostile? Friendly? How did they interact, etc...
Do you know if their are any records of their meeting?
I'd appreciate any information you can give me on this (even links to helpful websites)

Thanks in advance!

2007-08-09 08:00:30 · 2 answers · asked by roo 1

just as a guess i imagined it was around 1450

is this about right

thanks for your answers


xxx


vici

2007-08-09 07:49:27 · 6 answers · asked by vici 4

During the 18th century the term “Prime Minster” came to refer to the monarch’s most senior minister.

2007-08-09 07:24:12 · 14 answers · asked by Jolly12_15 2

2007-08-09 06:36:01 · 5 answers · asked by WAYNE H JOHNSON I 1