After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. ... The Treaty of Paris was one of the most important treaties signed at or near Paris. ... After World War I severeal treaties were signed (1919-20) in or near Paris, the most important of which was the Treaty of Versailles After World War II separate treaties were signed (1947) by the Allies at or near Paris with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. ... The offensive ...

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He never could read easily, but developed a strong power of concentration and a near-photographic memory. ... As Congress debated the tariff bill, Wilson presented his program for reform of the banking and currency laws. ... It had been responsible for laws that restricted child labor, promoted the welfare of seamen, and created a credit system for farmers. ... Businesses made larger gains than labor as a result of the relaxation of the anti-trust laws, the growth of trade associations, and the businessmen of an effective and publicly accepted union-busting technique. ... Wilson believed that ...

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Ideologies cannot thrive without the aid of the individual. Without them, there would be no ideology in the first place. Political parties would not be needed, regulated government would not exist, and historical/political occurrences such as the creation and destruction of the Berlin Wall or the H...

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They did not understand that for Muslims, the only law was Islamic or religious law and therefore the Caliph was not merely the religious leader but the political leader and the central figure. ... Stressing the same strict adherence to religious law of the Wahhabi sect, Ikhwan Bedouin abandoned their traditional way of life in the desert and move to an agricultural settlement called a hijra. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...

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On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close t...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman 12, 28) Victims were psychologically inclined to mask and forget their awful experiences, and society at large preferred not to contemplate the subject of atrocity if it could be helped. Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that societ...

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