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Although an ardent pacifist, he urged Pres. F.D. ROOSEVELT to investigate the possible use of atomic energy in bombs. In one of three important 1905 papers, he explained BROWNIAN MOVEMENT on the basis of his study of the motion of atoms. His special theory of RELATIVITY (1905) dealt with systems or observers in uniform (unaccelerated) motion with respe

He thus became known throughout Germany and used his nine months in prison to write Mein Kampf [my struggle], filled with anti-Semitism, power worship, disdain for morality, and his strategy for world domination. It became the bible of the Nazi party. The Nazi movement grew slowly until 1929, when the economic depression brought it mass support. Hitler

In 1856 he joined the new REPUBLICAN PARTY. He ran again (1858) for the Senate against Stephen A. DOUGLAS, and in a spirited campaign he and Douglas engaged in seven debates. Lincoln was not an ABOLITIONIST, but he regarded slavery as an evil and opposed its extension. Although he lost the election, he had by now made a name for himself, and in 1860 he

Stalin's purges of the 1930s claimed as victims such Soviet leaders as BUKHARIN, KAMENEV, and ZINOVIEV, and many millions of ordinary citizens. The USSR signed (1939) a nonaggression pact with Germany and, at the start of WORLD WAR II, invaded E Poland, gained a hard-earned victory in the Russo-Finnish War (1939-40), and occupied and forcibly annexed E

In 1861, Prince Albert died; the queen's extreme grief led to her seclusion for three years. Her emergence was largely due to Benjamin DISRAELI, who with William GLADSTONE dominated politics in the latter part of her reign.
Disraeli secured for her the title of empress of India.
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897) proved her to be enormously pop

Il est allé en courant sous un pin,
Il s’est couché sur l’herbe verte, face contre terre,
Il met sous lui son épée et son olifant,
Il tourne la tete du coté de la gent paienne ;
Il a fait cela parce qu’il veut véritablement
Que Charles et tous les siens disent
Qu’il est mort en vainqueur, le noble comte.
Il proclame ses faut

He resigned in 1759, married, and turned his attention to his plantation, MOUNT VERNON. He was a delegate (1774-75) to the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, which named him commander of the Continental forces after the outbreak of hostilities with the British. He assumed command (July 3, 1775) in Cambridge, Mass., and succeeded in capturing Boston from the British

In that Shakespeare explain the quick movement of the time: it is destructive about the material things, in particullary for the body and its beauty.
In fact he said “…Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and the summer’s lease hath all too short a date…”
The darling buds represent the flower of the Youth and the beauty of the life; mea

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With the 30-years-war England won on France.
Then England gave heavy taxation to American colonies. They say: "NO TAXATION WITHOUT RAPPRESENTATION", and they refused to pay. In 1773 the "Boston Tea Party" made start the revolution.
• At the end of 18th century there was the 1st industrial revolution. Britain was the first because:
1. Britai