LATIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LATIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WIND INSTRUMENTS WIND INSTRUMENTS STRING INSTRUMENTS STRING INSTRUMENTS PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS LATIN -AMERICAN MUSIC LATIN -AMERICAN MUSIC LATIN AMERICAN MUSICAL STYLES LATIN AMERICAN MUSICAL STYLES Tango Tango During the "belle epoque" (1890s), the working class of the "Boca" of Buenos Aires (Argentina) invented a new rhythm, the tango. Tan-go was the name given to the drums of the African slaves,
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1650 to 1800: The Early Days of Brewing in America Brewing in America dates to the first communities established by English and Dutch settlers in the early to mid seventeenth century. Dutch immigrants quickly recognized that the climate and terrain of present-day New York were particularly well suited to brewing beer and growing malt and hops, two of beer's essential ingredients. A 1660 map of New Amsterdam details twenty-six breweries and taverns, a clear indication that producing and selling
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began forming criminal organizations here. Many meetings held in the U.S during the 1920s and 1930s helped settle the differences between Sicilians and Italians, define ways to prevent gang wars without violence and maximize profits(interview). The illegitimate manufacture and allocation of alcohol during temperance enhanced the wealth of innumerable criminals, setting the stage of criminal influence all over America. Bootleg alcohol fueled the work of organized crime the businesses were highly profitable
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The 1920s was a decade of tremendous tension between forces of tradition and modernity. This tension was represented in whole by the Scopes Trial. The Scopes Trial was a court case where the Attorney General of Tennessee charged a high school biology teacher named John Scopes for going against the law of not being able to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution in school. Darwin’s theory of evolution stated that complex forms of life, like human beings, developed from simpler forms of life. Darwin’s
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did the view point and the rights of women. This change did not happen overnight and it was not an easy battle. The women of our past paved the road so that the women today can play a major role in the military, politics and on the home front of America. The first battle for women’s rights came in the mid to late 1800’s, prior to the Civil War at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. The movement came to a sudden halt, just as it started to begin, due to the Civil War. In 1869 the proposed 15th
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Twenties, The most memorable decade. The 1920s are remembered as a decade of political and cultural change. Women finally got rights, there were Prohibition Laws, The Great Migration, and The Harlem Renaissance. For the first time ever more people lived in cities than on farms. The nation's wealth doubled between 1920 and 1929. These years were the best, but it was all coming to an end. “The New Women” One of the most important political reforms of the 1920s in the Women's Suffrage Movement. Female
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1924 there were 40 firms operating for the purposes of exchange.[27] During the 1920s the occurrence of trade in London resembled more the modern manifestation, by 1928 forex trade was integral to the financial functioning of the city. Continental exchange controls, plus other factors, in Europe and Latin America, hampered any attempt at wholesale prosperity from trade for those of 1930's London.[28] During the 1920s foreign exchange the Kleinwort family were known to be the leaders of the market
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United States History 2 Final Review Guide Part I: Multiple Choice Chapter 20 ● Results of the Treaty of Versailles: - The Treaty of Versailles was signed after WWI in the palace of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Its goals were to "clean up the mess" after the war. The Treaty reestablished many boundaries and borders. Colonies, namely Germany's, were split among the Allied nations. Germany was disarmed since they were considered to be a threat by the rest of the world. Germany was
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Preface The charts and explanatory text in this section provide definitive, irrefutable evidence that market timing is often perfect to the day for periods covering many decades! This statement is equally correct when market time is measured in increments, and timing. These are very strong assertions, or to put it in the vernacular, this is pretty "scary stuff", but also very exciting! Nevertheless, as will be demonstrated, the Economics, the facts, cannot be ignored
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Bertolt Brecht Drama Project. He was born on 10 February 1898 in Augsburg, Germany His full birth name was Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht He was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director A prolific director he one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century He died on 14 August 1956 in Mitte, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic Brecht died on 14 August 1956 of a heart attack at the age of 58. He is buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery on Chausseestraße
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