Diary Entries: Harold Henry Abbott Enlistment: 10th March 1915 I can not believe I have actually done it. I have officially enlisted myself to fight for Australia in the war two days ago‚ it still quite has not sunken in what I have done. To be quite honest I was reluctant in my mind to do it at first. Reason being is I am quite comfortable back home with my job of being a Brushmaker. But I knew that if I did not enlist myself my family would have been delivered a white feather. Which is symbolic
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Although the predominant British machine gun in 1914 and for much of 1915 - it remained so for British imperial troops sited on far-flung battlefields‚ innovations in machine gun design invariably showing up first on the Western Front - it was gradually replaced from late 1915 onwards by the lighter Lewis Gun. Even so it gained a reputation as the ’Queen of the battlefield’ by men of the British Machine Gun Corps founded in October 1915 and remained in use long into the twentieth century. As a measure
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30th‚ 1915. The Syracuse Herald reported that Governor Slaton said "I would be a murderer if I let this man hang".(4) As stated in Trial by Prjudice "Thereupon the cry of the crowd was: "We want John H. Slaton‚ King of the Jews and Traitor Governor of Georgia"‚ The Governor was driven out of office". (5) Any one who stood up for justice in the case against Leo Frank found themselves against southern public opinion and even worse against the southern beuracracy. On August 17‚ 1915 a group
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PARTNERSHIP CASELAW | | This section of the website provides access to all cases summarised in the Partnership Law Updates which have been issued since January 2000 to date. Therefore this Archive operates as a guide to some of the interesting partnership cases decided in common law jurisdictions in recent years. Special thanks are due to Professor Dick Webb (Emeritus Professor of Law in the University of Auckland) for alerting me to many developments contained in this section and to Dr Keith
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Powell introduced Fox to Theodosia‚ the evil seductress‚ and there she gained the lead “vampire” role in A Fool There Was (1915). To enforce the role of leading villainess‚ Theodosia’s history and image had to be reconstructed. By signing a five-year contract with Fox‚ she not only had to play the part‚ but to be the
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“The American Pageant” Chapters 16-22 Assignment Questions: 1) What were the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and what piece of previous legislation was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act? The Kansas Nebraska act would split the proposed Territory of Nebraska in half thus making Kansas and Nebraska. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act as it violated the original proposal of abolishing slavery above the 36°30’ line. 2) What does the term “bleeding Kansas”
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forces‚ including large amounts from Australia and New Zealand‚ were effectively held at the beaches where they had landed‚ hampered by cautious and bad leadership from their British commander‚ Sir Ian Hamilton. Hamilton was replaced near the end of 1915 by Charles Monro‚ who recommended that the Allies abandon the operation. The armies were fully evacuated by the end of January 1916. evacuation: The New Zealand brigades returned to Anzac on 8-9 November. While they had received some fresh reinforcements
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On January 28‚ 1890‚ Rizal left Paris for Brussels‚ capital of Belgium. Two reasons impelled Rizal to leave Paris‚ namely; (1) the cost of living in Paris was very high because of the Universal Exposition and (2) the gay social life of the city hampered his literary works‚ especially the writing of his second novel El Filibusterismo. His friends‚ including M.H. del Pilar and Valentin Ventura‚ were of the belief that he left because he was running away from the girl just as he left London. When he
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and Britain in the first world war‚ the Russians invaded Eastern Germany with two large armies. However the Germans defeated them at the battles of Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes. Also in 1915‚ Germany turned completely against Russia and launched a series of offensives against the Russian army. By the end of 1915‚ the Russian forces had been completely driven out of Russian Poland. The Russians were beaten and large areas of Russian territory were overrun. In 1916‚ the Russians won against the Austrians
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Armenia Genocide Genocide is the organized killing of a group of people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the most savage and barbaric episode in the history of the Armenian people. There were several main reasons the Turks carried out the genocide. Differences in the Armenian and Turkish culture‚ the continued conflict between the Armenians and the Turks‚ and the beginning of World War I led the Turks to kill over
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