Kreuznach, Oppenheim and other Rhine strong points in the fall of 1621. ... To the north an beyond the Neckard river an army led by Christian of Brunswick stood ready to help the Protestant forces. ... The plan failed, both Cordoba and Tilly attacked George and cut him off the river. ... However Christian held a small bridgehead south of the river while his main body forced a crossing in the way of artillery fire. ... So many more battles were fought as you might have guessed by now and basically the imperial or catholic side won, quite decisively. ...

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One country that pollutes, will export its pollution to others. ... We must try and plan and look on the gloomy side, in a sense. ... Side by side with this, we use huge quantities of chemical fertilizers in our agriculture. Some of these fertilizers seep down into the underground water-shelves and aquifers and finds its way into the river system together with chemicals discharged by factories, which are often sited near rivers and lakes, straight into the river or the sea. ... The harmful chemicals which are deposited in one way or another into our rivers, our seas, our lakes and our oceans g...

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Heart of Darkness Essay task: Marlow's narrative presents a critical analysis of the "Empire mind- as well as being a descriptive account of a journey up the river Congo! Assess this claim with detailed reference to Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad in the year 1899, is a story about a journey up the river Congo in Africa. ... He is derogatory towards Roman colonization of Britain because the Romans "were conquerors and for that you want only brute force nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the we...

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Over time more organizations formed, the Thames River Police were created to protect boats and ships entering the river carrying goods from the colonies. ... You should always check your calendar for court and other important dates. ... Officers must deal with complaints, giving out general information, helping people who are locked out of their homes, being police escorts, delivering death messages, performing house and business checks, and assisting other city agencies, are more responsibilities of an officer. ...

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Reno, many other individuals in high power places also believe that the ever increasing amount of violence in syndication has its effects upon what young people will do. ... Simply put, media violence does cause people "young, old, or otherwise "to commit violent acts, but only as much as other activities, but never any more often than a case of "road rage- or some other case inciting anger. ... On the contrary, books and other forms of written literate have displayed the same amount of violence long before any televised violence came about. ... Even then, the atrocities presented i...

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Japanese wanted to destroy the US' Pacific Fleet in order to clear the way to conquer Southeast Asia - US reacts by declaring war on Japan and inspiring men to enlist in the armed forces, creates a battle cry, General Kimmal forced to retire, America bombs major Japanese cities in revenge The Home front (life in the US during the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers, armored cars, trucks, light vehicles, rifles and side-arms, machine guns, artillery and ammo were produced in factories - production during the...

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The Vikings understood the warship as a specialized type, the langskip or herskip, distinguished from others by its size and long, narrow hull form, which was known as snekkja or "snake". ... The hulc originated as a small sailing vessel used in local river and coastal trade. ... The difference between the hulc and the other sailing ships is that the hulc is larger than the more local coastal vessels as it would have had to have been to cross the Channel (286-296). ... Many ancient ships of widely different shipbuilding traditions, Roman vessels of the classical period, for instance, carrie...

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The disease spread so rapidly as a result of the infected rats and ticks coming over from the other countries (History.com Staff 2). ... Their trash and waste went into the ditches, rivers and other waters polluting everything they could possibly pollute (Alchin1). ... Coming down with this plague caused fatal symptoms such as fever and chills, swollen lymph nodes, headaches, seizures and many more uncomfortable side effects. ...

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These European characters, then, must necessarily have non-European counterparts who form the reverse side of the Western imperialist narrative. ... On one hand, the chief accountant is an individual with personality, while on the other "black shapes [crouch]," "black shadows of disease and starvation [lie] confusedly," and one "creature...[rises] to his hands and knees, and [goes] off on all fours towards the river to drink" (Conrad 30). ... He, like other Europeans in the film, assumes the homogeneity of "Oriental" peoples and their traits; furthermore...

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Imperialism also had its negative side. ... Henry Morton Stanley and King Leopold II helped in establishing a trading post along the Congo River. ... Others that had pastoral and warrior tradition, fought. ...

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Why is it that every other urinal is used and not every single one of them? ... With that said the reason behind the every-other-rule still remains a mystery to me. ... The whole situation becomes even more bizarre when it is learned these same men who refuse to do "number one" remotely close to each other bathe together in a river. ... The every-other-one rule picks at my curiosity not only because of its lack of reason, but because it is an excellent reflection of humanity's other quirks. ... As the saying goes, "the grass is greener on the other side." ...

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The western side of the Franconian Empire went to Karl the Bald and the eastern region of the Franconian Empire went to Ludwig the German. ... Eibich in his review has mentioned that "in the treaty, the brothers guaranteed each other ownership of their respective realms and the right of succession of their sons. ... Among three brothers, as Lothaire was the eldest he kept the name of the Emperor along with Italy and a small part of area in the western side of the river Rhine, from Mediterranean to the North Sea. The land which was on the eastern side of above mentioned part was given to ...

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In fact, there never has been a single Asian civilization because the continent's vast size caused several and different civilizations arise, each independent of the others. The earliest known civilizations arose in the great river valleys of southwest Asia, northwest India, and northern China. ... An increased agricultural yield and the work of the artisans provided trade goods that could be exchanged with people from other cultures. ... For the world to see the "undoubted- contrast of Europe and Asia, one being dominant and the other subservient, is that it? ... The scam o...

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Ocean-going technology brought Europeans into large-scale face-to-face contact with peoples who were culturally and physically more different from themselves than any others with whom they had interacted in the previous millennium. ... That this option was never seriously considered suggests a European inability to enslave other Europeans. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... In addition, vessels from some regions on the coast appear to ha...

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