The invention of the escapement mechanism, a bit of machinery that allowed more accurate clocks to be built, caused a profusion of publicly available clocks throughout Western Europe (Camille 98). This caused a massive change in society; all manner of public events became regulated by "real" hours rather than the somewhat fluid hours dictated by the Sun and the seasons. ... The work aimed to "waken the torpid from careless sleep to watchful virtue," according to Camille (99). ... When he translated it into Latin in 1334, adding a great deal of content, it experienced a similar popularity thr...

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And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the graphic prose resides a perception of World War I unprecedented for its time. ... This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ... (All subsequent historical refe...

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With temperate marine weather, Germany is usually quite frigid throughout the year with wet, cloudy, and cool summers and cold winters. The terrain varies from lowlands in the north bordering the North and Baltic Seas to uplands in Central Germany, and the Bavarian Alps to the south. ... Quite contrary to the common stereotypes, German people are not really that tall. ... If not, Germany's population has been predicted to drop from 86 to 60 million in the next 50 years without new immigration legislation, this would mean economic disaster for the country. ... They do not like foreigners, ...

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Third, he wanted one dominant race of all the same kind of people. ... Fifth, he blamed the Jews for the war debt and sentenced them all to die. ... The idea of this gives me quite a scare my self, because I have brown hair, and brown eyes and would I have been killed just because I did not Hitlers physical standards. ... There he answered the call to colors at the outbreak of World War I and Served in the Bavarian Sixteenth Regiment on the Western Front. ... This came partly from his ability to stir street crowds with his speeches. ...

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The specifics of communism's demise varied among nations, but similarities in both the causes and the effects of these revolutions were quite similar. As well, all of the nations involved shared the common goals of implementing democratic systems of government and moving to market economies. ... In Europe, on the other hand, the shift from communism was taking place in a different context altogether. The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a...

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All the European countries were now bankrupt from the cost of waging a war for four years. ... Since all of the wealthy nations inside Europe had been involved in the war since the beginning, they were all but bankrupt. ... From 1922-1929, the national income was up 40% from $60.7 billion to $87.2 billion, (Cronon 341). ... As the economy was flourishing, many Americans found it a practical investment to put money into the Stock Exchange, as the return could be quite large. ... The Dust Bowl of North America refers to a catastrophe in the early 1930's when vast areas of the Midwestern and...

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