June 28, 1914, the heir to the throne of Austria had been assassinated. Unbeknownst to his killer, this one event would be the cause of monumental battle between nations, later known as “The Great War”. Although the assassination was not that of random circumstance, it was a thought out and planned event. The assassination had been influenced by many outside reasons, those reasons would create an acronym that would be used to explain how this brutal war had begun. The acronym was M.A.I.N which was
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What Was Life Like for a Gladiator? Introduction Gladiators were swordsmen that entertained audience members, in the era of the Roman Empire, with harsh and violent actions. Gladiators fought against other gladiators, animals, and criminals. In the battle, gladiators stayed fighting against each other and against animals until one of them stays alive. They fought at arena’s called Colosseum. Most of them were unschooled slaves
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was neutral. Great Britain declared war on Germany after France was attacked. Then Austria-Hungary declared war on England and WW1 began”(www.historyonthenet.com). “The countries that were involved in WW1 that were Central Powers were Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Other countries involved that were allies were Italy, Japan, Russia, Romania, Portugal, Greece, and Great Britain. Some countries that were in WW1 were Belgium, Brazil, China, Cuba, Estonia, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras
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According to the United Nations, the phrase genocide refers to “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, aiming at complete extermination of such groups.” This is the perfect expression to describe what happened to the Romani during WWII. Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s was not the place to be if you didn’t have blue eyes and blonde hair. Everyone knows what the Holocaust is, why it happened and who was victimized, but many people are unaware of the other groups that
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Born on March 25th, 1881 in the small town of Nagyszentmiklos in what was, at the time, Austria-Hungary, Bela Bartok was a composer, teacher, and musician noted by many as both one of the most influential composers of the early 20th century and as Hungary’s finest composer. Considered a musical prodigy in his youth, Bartok learned to play the piano early in his life, having learned some forty pieces within only a few years of his birth. At the age of seven, following the death of his father, he
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Soviet Union after the war. This sparked strong reactions from the West. Using its military in the occupied counties the Soviet helped local communist parties to come into power. In 1948 seven East European countries had communist governments. Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia all had Communist governments. Stalin plan to put communist regimes in the region
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Gross National Product(2000 data, billion dollars) (product per capita in parentheses, thousand dollars) GDP Yearly Growth Rate Back to politics | Back to history | More statistics | Country | GNP | Per Capita | USA | $10,533 | $38 | Japan | $4,852 | $38 | Germany | $2,242 | $27 | Britain | $1,544 | $26 | France | $1,543 | $26 | China | $1,329 | $1 | Italy | $1,260 | $22 | Canada | $760 | $24 | Brazil | $715 | $4 | Spain | $651 | $16 | Mexico | $578 | $6 |
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------------------------------------------------- List based on Fearon's analysis[edit] In the Fearon list, cultural fractionalization is approximated by a measure of similarity between languages, varying from 1 = same language to 0 = languages that are completely unrelated.[3] This index of cultural diversity is biased towards linguistic variations as opposed to racial and other variations. Ethnic and Cultural diversity (2003)[3] | Ethnic Diversity Rank | Country | Ethnic Fractionalization
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List of current heads of state and government From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2010) | This is a list of current heads of state and government, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; often a leader is both in
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Bacău, Braşov, Bucureşti, Cluj, Oradea, Timişoara. Datorită unei dezvoltări rapide a companiei s-a ajuns ca la sfârşitul anului 2005 să fie deschise puncte de lucru în treizeci de municipii reşedinţă de judeţ precum şi extinderea în ţările vecine: Bulgaria, Republica Moldova şi Ucraina. În oraşele: Bacău, Bucureşti, Constanţa, Oradea şi Piteşti sunt depozitele principale de stocare marfă şi tranzit marfă pentru aprovizionarea celorlalte judeţe. Numărul de puncte de lucru este influenţat de gradul
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