Archbishop William Laud, 1573-1645. Archbishop of Canterbury whose attempts to bring uniformity of worship and the “beauty of holiness” into the Anglican liturgy precipitated the slide into Civil War. William Laud was a significant religious and political advisor during the personal rule of King Charles I. During his time as…
At one meeting, Hazel meets a 17-year-old boy currently in remission named Augustus Waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his right leg. Augustus is at the meeting to support Isaac, his friend who has eye cancer. — Augustus Waters. Augustus “Gus” Waters was born on March 14, 1994 and…
Archibald Yell (August 9, 1797 – February 23, 1847) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative from Arkansas from 1836 to 1839, and 1845 to 1846. He was the second governor of Arkansas, serving from 1840 to 1844. Yell was killed in action at the…
He was the only Black patriot to be granted land by the state of Georgia in recognition of his bravery and service during the Revolution and one of the few to receive a federal military pension. Austin Dabney: Georgia’s African American Hero of the Revolution. George Rockingham Gilmer wrote a…
Like almost all deities Ares is more accurately described as amoral rather than evil as he had both positive and negative traits (much like the concepts he embodied), though his negative traits are shown more often, and a number of people who study Greek mythology believe that Ares is the…
When Austria-Hungary entered the fighting of World War I in 1914, it had one of the least developed and prepared armies in all of Europe. In fact, the empire struggled to adequately supply and prepare its military forces before and during World War I. As such, Austria-Hungary’s army struggled in…
COLD WAR ARGENTINA: THE DIRTY WAR. The early Cold War years in Argentina were dominated by the personalities of the wildly popular Juan Perón and his wife, the lovely and seductive Eva, known as Evita. First years. The arguments in favor ranged from Argentine military tradition (Argentina was neutral during…
It came into force on 27 July and on 25 October the country was free of occupying troops. The next day, Austria’s parliament enacted a Declaration of Neutrality, whereby Austria would never join a military alliance such as NATO or the Warsaw Pact, or allow foreign troops be based within…
Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well. Did Aristotle believe in monism or dualism? The monistic view of man as a complex but unified person…
On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss. What is Hitler’s reasoning,at this point in history,for incorporating Austria into the German Reich? … Why did Hitler want to prevent the vote planned by von Schuschnigg in…