Airplane, for example, first appeared nationally, and caught the wave of activism and "free- love during the summer of 1967. Their lyrics of the hit song "Somebody to Love- reflect this attitude: When the truth is found to be lies You know the joy within you dies Don't you want somebody to love? ... However she also became "one of rock's first poster girls Bob Seidemann's lovely semi-nude shot of Janis, made into a poster during the Summer of Love [1967], sold over 150,000 copies - unheard of at the time (Hirshey: 74)."" ... The rough, in-your-face rock from the Summer of L...

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His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... According to one of her very unreliable stories, she claimed to have had booked pas...

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The family spend summers in Michigan, were Ernest became a great lover of the outdoors. ... He was eventually taken to the Red Cross Hospital in Milan, where he spent part of the summer and fall of 1918. ... Mondrian died February 1, 1944, in New York. ...

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Hirohito, the former emperor of Japan, will be the subject of my historiographic essay. My research consists of two books; Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr and Hirohito: Emperor of Japan by Leonard Mosley, and an article from the PBS web page titled Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989 (see bibli...

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For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here, therefore were born, For love of God seems dying. ... However, the ironic ambiguity of last line, 'for love of God is dying, is Owen's way of questioning the nature of that love of God', which is supposed to inspire their civilization and justify the war' (Breen 184). ... Perhaps the line is saying that God's love for creation is dying. ...

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You are ready to die for your faith...let us fight it out. ... This was the general sentiment felt by Germans in the summer of 1914. ... The summer of 1914 also marked the beginning of a four year battle that would leave over "nine million dead and over twenty million wounded" (Axelrod, 20). ...

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He married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, in 1904, but she unfortunately died in 1910, only after six years of marriage. ... By the summer of 1938 millions were arrested and sent off to prison or labor camps. ... Somewhere between 21 and 28 million soviet civilians and soldiers died in the war. ...

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In the six months following Operation Barbarossa, 66% of the mobilized Red Army died or were taken prisoner and 90% of its mechanized strength was lost. ... Hitler suffered his "greatest loss of the war" in the summer of 1944. ...

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It was unusually hot in Hiroshima on this late summer morning in 1945. ... Even though Truman had signed these documents, inside he felt that too many American men had already died in Europe and another full-scale invasion such as these would increase the death rate by too much. ... But wherever I walked I met these people Many of them died along the road--I can still picture them in my mind--like walking ghosts .They did...

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Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. These countries conglomerated to not solely for economic or military reasons, but for ideological reas...

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Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904 in The Bronx, New York. As A child, she had dreamt of becoming a great biologist. She studied Herpetology (the study of reptiles) in high school and had hopes to become good enough to go on an expedition. She attended many universities where she began...

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We Were Soldiers Once and Young was co-authored by Lt. General Harold G Moore and Joseph L Galloway. Lt General Moore was in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary division during the November 1965 battle, which took place in the Ia Drang valley in Vietnam. Joseph L Galloway was a reporter that a...

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In A Separate Peace by John Knowels, the value of dealing with your feelings and dealing with your enemies is shown by Gene Forester, a student in Devon during World War 2 dealing with few human enemies, but his emotions create a circumstance far greater than any human enemy. "I never ...

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Gene said that the rules are very bent during the summer session, but it was actually Finny's people skills that had kept them out of trouble. ... Gene later returns to the infirmary and the doctor tells him that finny has died, his heart was stopped by a piece of bone marrow, and that he died peacefully. ...

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Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was ab...

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Hitler decided that his only option for saving Germany was a full scale do-or-die offensive to break through Allied lines and regain lost territory. ... During the summer and fall of 1944, the United States Army Air Force and the British Royal Air Force had taken a heavy toll on the German Army and Air Force, as well as German supply lines, production plants, and industrial centers. ...

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