… in overthrowing Batista and establishing a Communist dictatorship in Cuba. Throughout this struggle for change Fidel Castro played a crucial role not only in contributing to the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 but extending the revolution…

… American Basketball Association had a short and wild life, yet it made great contributions to professional basketball. It increased the level of talent, changed the way the game was played, and produced some of the greatest stars to ever play the…

… people often use their surroundings to help them progress. In fact politicians may do the same. For instance, during the late 1940's and early 1950's, politicians have used the influence of the Red Scare in order to gain political control. The Red…

… aviatrix Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 at her grandparents' home in Atchison, Kansas. Her grandfather, Alfred Otis was one of the leading citizens of Atchison. Amy Earhart, having suffered a miscarriage in an earlier pregnancy, returned…

… a complete surprise to the US; Dean Rusk of the State Department had told Congress on June 20 that no war was likely. However, a CIA report in early March had predicted a June invasion. US officials had previously publicly stated that America would not…

… role not only in the revolutionary movement's seizure of power in 1959 but also in the social revolution which transformed Cuba into a Communist state. Guevara contribution was primarily as a unifying and driving force of the revolution behind the…

… Century, one realizes that increasingly women service the various social and economic movements mostly as workers and volunteers but not as its leaders. In the next phase, which, I believe, is the human rights revolution, women must lead and set…

… who are forced from their countries by war, civil conflict, and political strife or human rights abuses. There were an estimated 14.9 million refugees in the world in 2001.People that had crossed an international border to seek safety. *<Tab/&…

… fighters violated the temporary truce they had pledged to observe around the lunar new year celebrations, and surged into more than one hundred towns and cities, including Saigon. Shifting the war for the first time from its rural base into the new…

… and organist. For the most part he was an essential member of his family, his intelligence combined exceptional performing musicianship by means of superlative originality within dynamic and innovative ingenuity, methodological mastery and academic organ…