Reforms targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations, called political machines. The bosses of these machines used bribery and violence to influence voters and win elections. Which reform did the 19th Amendment enact? On August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. It granted all…
Prospero become involved in the studies of liberal arts and gave over his dukedom to Antonio. Antonio betrayed his brother and stole the dukedom of Milan from him while he (Prospero) was studying. Being the loyal man that he is, Prospero did not expect his brother evil grab for power.…
While Galileo did not invent the telescope, he did design and build telescopes with increasingly higher magnifying power for his own use and to present to his patrons. He was a skilled instrument maker, and his telescopes were known for their high quality. As part of the first space-based optical…
Metrojet flight 9268, a Russian A321 civilian aircraft, crashed shortly after departing from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh airport for St. Petersburg. All 224 passengers and crew members were killed. The crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 on Halloween 2015 took the lives of 224 people, including 217 passengers and 7 crew members.…
On 6 April, Serb forces began shelling Sarajevo, and in the next two days crossed the Drina from Serbia proper and besieged Bosniak-majority Zvornik, Višegrad and Foča. All of Bosnia was engulfed in war by mid-April. There were some efforts to halt violence. Did the US bomb Sarajevo? The war…
By 1991, debt at Beazer PLC has reached $1.7 billion with $3.4 billion in revenue. In 1991, the British parent company was acquired by Hanson. Beazer Homes USA was established in 1985 when Beazer, a British home construction company led by Brian Beazer, acquired Cohn Communities, an Atlanta -based home…
Juana warns Kino that the pearl is evil and will destroy his family, but he refuses to throw it away because it is his one chance to provide a different life for his Page 2 family. That night, Juana takes the pearl and tries to throw it into the sea,…
During the First CrusadeFirst CrusadeThe First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › First_CrusadeFirst Crusade…
On this day in 1807, Congress enacted a law to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United Statesthe United StatesIn its noun form, the word generally means a resident or citizen of the U.S., but is also used for someone whose…
Edward VI died of tuberculosis in 1553. Queen Mary, sometimes known as “Bloody Mary.” After Edward’s death in 1553, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen by her father-in-law, the Duke of Northumberland. After Edward re-took the throne in 1471, Henry Tudor spent 14 years in exile in Brittany. He attained…