History - December 2007

and why was charlemagne significant in the holy roman empire?

2007-12-31 03:58:54 · 2 answers · asked by kellies 1

1. should we abolish the electoral college system described in the US Constitution and simply go for a direct vote for the leader of the executive branch? I have no intentions to dismantling the rest of the democratic republic process we rely upon in voting in Congress and other lower level offices, but the electoral college just seems so-outdated and unnecessary. An individual vote is almost worthless in an EC system. Direct elections. One vote per citizen for the President.

2. Iowa??? New Hampshire??? We're relying on two small states to determine a large portion of the USA political future? The president is the leader for all US citizens and should reflect the majority of voters found throughout the land and not two small-time states of little importance.

3. I envy the British and their election process of a Prime Minister. It lasts only a few weeks. For us, it lasts 1 and a half years now!!! It's overtop and wasteful. It also makes us jaded and apathetic.

2007-12-31 03:27:24 · 12 answers · asked by peapatchisland 2

a defying moment to Canada and what are important facts?

2007-12-31 03:25:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

any book at all analyzing events leading to the Great Depression and the crash of the stock market....thnx

2007-12-31 03:00:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a published author { Secret History of Paris } researching for a projected book on families in London or the provinces who were involved in the Revolution. If you have an ancestor either English or French ---- perhaps an emigre ---i would be interested in an interview as to how they escaped from France or why and related events. Were your ancestors involved in the Revolution ? Anything related.

2007-12-31 02:47:23 · 2 answers · asked by maranta 4

Has anyone read Edwin Black's "IBM and the Holocaust"? it details how Thomas J. Watson befriended Hitler and how IBM staff assisted Germany in ensuring the trains arrived to the death camps on time.

2007-12-31 02:46:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 02:03:00 · 8 answers · asked by Intellie Gentz 3

Is it correct that the Spanish government pay for the senior citizens to have a holiday at the seaside free of charge every year.?If so why cannot our government in the UK adopt the same policy?for our senior citizens.

2007-12-31 01:52:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Happy New Year and have a better 2008!

2007-12-31 00:57:37 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 00:46:18 · 10 answers · asked by pink.addict 2

1)the declaration of independence was signed at philadelphia 2)minutemen fought british soldiers at lexington and concord

2007-12-31 00:40:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

1)the french and idian war ended 2)native americans attacked english settlements in the ohio valley

2007-12-31 00:37:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news."

It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.

2007-12-30 23:53:47 · 14 answers · asked by tyler durden Oƒƒicial 6

My history teacher has commented on this a few times, and from any pictures in my history book of Stalin, he seems to have his left hand either out of the picture, disreetly hidden or in his pocket. Is it true that his left hand was shrivelled or whithered?

2007-12-30 20:58:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i wish i would have listened to my grandparents when they spoke but i was a kid. just wondering why they came to the united states. does anyone have a similiar story from a relative of their own?

2007-12-30 19:06:03 · 7 answers · asked by Jules 2

history of apartment

2007-12-30 18:04:31 · 3 answers · asked by kudlakat 1

2007-12-30 17:57:40 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-12-30 17:56:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I came across this story in Gillian Becker's book on the PLO and can't get it out of my head.
Girl from Christian community, on vacation from school in USA, gang-raped and horribly mutilated by PLO members, survived without arms, legs or breasts.
Is this story true? And if so, what happened to her?

2007-12-30 17:54:41 · 7 answers · asked by gravybaby 3

2007-12-30 17:34:19 · 7 answers · asked by crissie15 1

I'm putting together a crossword puzzle for my college history club and I'm out of ideas for questions/words. Does anyone have some good ones? Keep in mind these are college students who are majoring in history, so nothing too easy, but they are studying a variety of different subjects, so nothing too specific.

2007-12-30 17:19:25 · 5 answers · asked by Ophelia193 6

1. The Death Of Actress Thelma Todd: I believe she was murdered by Lucky Luciano's men. She was beaten up and put in her car with it left on. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning. It was no accident.

2. The Death Of Actor George Reeves: I believe he was murdered. Either by Toni Mannix's men or by Leonore Lemmon. There are too many bullet holes for it to have been suicide.

3. The Death Of Marilyn Monroe: I believe Sam Giancana and the Kennedys were involved.

4. The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: I believe it was a conspiracy. I believe it was the Mafia and the CIA. I believe Lucien Sarti was shooter on the grassy knoll.

5. The Assassination of Martin Luther King: I believe James Earl Ray was the triggerman. But I believe he was paid to do the job.

6. The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: I believe it was a conspiracy involving the Mafia and the CIA. Sirhan Sirhan was one of the shooters. I believe there were 3 shooters, including a security guard

2007-12-30 17:01:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-30 16:48:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Was it shillings? Guildings? something like that?

2007-12-30 16:33:39 · 7 answers · asked by mygirlfrogprince 2

2007-12-30 15:58:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

____ is the key! once we have the key in our pocket, we will win the war

2007-12-30 14:43:42 · 5 answers · asked by frances d 1

2007-12-30 14:20:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-30 14:17:15 · 4 answers · asked by Ad S 1

I know there were a few that have predicted it, like the Aztecs and Nostradamus. Anyone else?

2007-12-30 13:59:26 · 11 answers · asked by booper :) 2

2007-12-30 13:36:06 · 3 answers · asked by Ad S 1