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Gage decided to go beyond these orders and to seize the military stores his spies had informed him were being assembled in the village of Concord . He neither caught the rebel leaders, nor completely destroyed the military supplies ...

The president regularly receives official visitors in the Rose Garden . The East Wing was built in 1942 and contains offices for presidential aids . The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, so named by Mrs . Lyndon B . Johnson in honor of her predecessor, is off ...

Looking back on what has happened over the past two years, we have to ask ourselves . What was it all for? Is all of this really necessary… or worth it? Leaving aside all the political problems, potential wars and the tragedies that have happened i ...

Titanic, the largest vessel in the world when she entered service in 1912, was neither the finest nor the most technically advanced of her day . Size, seldom an indication that something is better, was the only record she held ...

Plan of investigation To what extent did Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin defend himself during his show trial in 1938? The purpose of this investigation is to find out how and to what extent did Nikolai Bukharin defend himself when he was put on tria ...

Although his works during this period earned a mixed reception from critics, Cruise’s popularity with motion-picture audiences grew dramatically . In 1993 Cruise made his directing debut with “The Fabulous Frammis,” an episode of the cable-television ...

This enclosure then received a huge structure of stone which in time came to be called The Great Tower and eventually as it is known today The White Tower . This formed the basis of a residential palace and fortress ideally suited for a king or quee ...

But almost a year after MMS was fist launched in Europe, the service is still struggling to gain momentum . In the U . S . operators are just beginning to offer MMS . T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG and an MMS pioneer, said last week that it s ...

Does true love exist? a relative question for our mind and especially for our soul . “Nothing human is good enough to be loved, but every decent human being has some capacity for loving” . "Love is patient, love is kind ...

The UN’s influence in world affairs has fluctuated over the years, but the organization has gained new prominence in the 1990s . Still, the UN faces many challenges . It must overcome the worst financial crisis in its history ...

Pennsylvania was given to the Quaker William Penn as payment for a debt, and Maryland, a grant to the Roman Catholic George Calvert, was the first colony to establish religious freedom . New York, New Jersey, and Delaware were taken from the Dutch b ...

In 1607 Jamestown became the first permanent British settlement in North America and the foundation of the Virginia colony . It was followed 13 years later by the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth, which was soon dwarfed by the Puritan colony of Massa ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has no written constitution . The two main branches of the English constitution are: (A) the legislative power which is the power of making, altering or repealing the laws; and (B) the executi ...

Mysterious places • Bermuda Triangle Bermuda Triangle, region of the western Atlantic Ocean that has become associated in the popular imagination with mysterious maritime disasters . Also known as the Devil's Triangle, the triangle-shaped area cov ...

The big explosion of growth and increased ridership came at the turn of the century . The cause of this explosion was the electric streetcars that were installed in many cities . Whichever direction the rail lines were laid down and the streetcar move ...

Pro-primary and Primary Education . In some areas of England there are nursery schools for children under 5 years of age . Some children between two and five receive edu¬cation in nursery classes or in infants classes in primary schools ...

Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics . Metaethics investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean ...

For centuries the most common method of transport was by gondola, a flat-bottomed boat propelled by a single oar . Today, the gondolas are used mainly by tourists; motor launches carry almost all the freight and passenger traffic in Venice ...

His designs are innovative, almost risque, the genius behind them apparent . GIANNI VERSACE - A SHORT BIOGRAPHY 1946 Gianni Versace was born in Reggio Calabria on December 2 . 1972 At the age of 25 he decides to move to Milan and works as a fashion ...

It was brought to Haiti and the other islands in West Indies when the slaves were brought there by force . When the slaves arrived, it was prohibited to them to practice those rituals and were baptised inte the Roman catholic Church, but altough they ...