… to build their first airplane. He glided on a hill in a big kite-type thing called a hang glider. The brothers really liked this idea and kept thinking about it. They remembered a toy their father brought home when they were very young. The…

… did several things that effected slavery. These effects were stemmed from both the good and bad sides of the issue. On the good side of the spectrum during the drafting of the Constitution only a few of the founding fathers felt that slavery…

… in endorsing the policies and actions of successive governments which devastated Aboriginal communities and inflicted, and continue to inflict, grief and suffering upon Aboriginal families and communities.” – Bob Carr, Premier of New South Wales (Clark).…

… phrase ‘World War II’ is mentioned?” The typical response to this question will almost always be “Hitler and his cruelty toward Jews.” What is strange about this answer, is the fact that the majority of people do not realize what actually occurred…

… France from 1651 until his death in 1715 (Bernier, Foreward). Louis XIV was on one the most well-known monarchs in France and in Europe. "When twentieth-century men speak of a king, the image that usually comes to mind is Charlemange or Louis XIV;…

… American society? “The United States has carried on foreign intelligence activities since the days of George Washington, but only since World War II have they been coordinated on a government wide basis.”1 Even before the devastating attack at…

… Robert S. McNamara commissioned what has come to be known as the Pentagon Papers--a massive top-secret history of the U.S. role in Indochina. The result was approximately 3,000 pages of narrative and more than 4,000 pages of appended documents--about…

… Location and Environment The people of the Kalahari desert are extraordinary people. For centuries their hunting and food gathering techniques have enabled them to survive in the difficult environment of the dry, hot and barren Kalahari…

… with the expense on building and setting up a railroad. The government eventually gave up, and offer a subsidy to the companies, this meant they got money for every mile they built. Although this may sound good it caused a problem. It made the shareho…

… Europe in the late eighties was remarkable for both its rapidity and its scope. The specifics of communism's demise varied among nations, but similarities in both the causes and the effects of these revolutions were quite similar. As well,…