Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab‚ Burma on December 18‚ 1870. Hector’s father was Inspector-General of the Burma Police. The youngest of three children‚ Hector spent most of his early childhood at Broadgate Villa‚ in Pilton village near Barnstaple‚ North Devon. Their father had left the children there in the care of his two sisters and mother before leaving for India. Charles‚ Ethel and Hector grew up in a house populated by three adults‚ their aunts Charlotte (Tom) and Augusta‚ and their grandmother
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The Ottoman Empire joined World War I in search to save themselves and avoid risk of destruction‚ but the exact opposite happened to them causing their ultimate downfall. The Ottoman Empire began in the year 1299. The empire stood for about 600 years and was established by Turkish tribes in Anatolia‚ Turkey. The name “Ottoman” came from the founding Turkman chief‚ Osman the first. Osman founded the dynasty and the empire around the year 1300. Overtime‚ the Ottoman Empire would continue to progress
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Theory/Model # 2 – Trauma‚ Recovery‚ and Empowerment Model (TREM) Crises level can be described has having three different levels of Crises. (1) Basic crises theory (2) Expanded Crises‚ and (3) Applied crises theory (James & Gilliland‚ 2017). In Miami‚ Florida‚ a domestic violence call was made from a woman claiming that she had been attacked‚ kicked‚ and punched by her boyfriend Nick Gordon. He is the ex-boyfriend of singer Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Christina. All too often we hear of domestic
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Discuss the causes of the First World War World War I started in summer of 1914 as apolitical power play in Europe. Russian and Austria-Hungary competed for control of Balkan region. Many Serbians wanted to unite all Slavs into a one country‚ so Austria-Hungary started to worry for the Pan-Slavic movement and they annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina. This angered many Serbians‚ as they wanted to be in control of Bosnia. Thus‚ on June 28 1914‚ Serbians assassinated the heir of Austro-Hungarians throne.
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and popular culture such as ‘invasion literature’ written by penny press novelists fueled the fiery spirit of a people. For example‚ the Habsburg Empire was a tottering agglomeration of 11 different ethnicities with large Slavic populations and the Balkans‚ whose nationalist aspirations ran counter to Imperial cohesion. Throughout the course of the 1800s the diverse people of its Empire dreamed of their own country and vied to one day attain it. Indeed such Pan-Slavism created the trigger cause at the
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periods of extreme pressure in the financial markets‚ while in Argentina the variables of financial globalization are useful in predicting the “turning points” in the FSI. They signal higher levels of stress that do not necessarily correspond to crises. Brazil is in an intermediate situation. Most of the variables predict the highest peaks of the FSI (like Mexico)‚ except short-term debt that signals future upward or downward variations in the financial stress indicator Keywords : Financial
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Module 7 DBA Alt - Review political geography - examination of political processes and organizations at several levels state - politically organized territory with a stable population‚ boundaries that are internationally recognized‚ and an effective government and economy‚ and full control over its internal and external affairs 1. A single government in control 2. A specified area of land 3. A permanent population 4. Government control of internal and external affairs 5. Sovereignty - Name
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The "Fourteen Points" was a statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. People in Europe generally welcomed Wilson’s intervention‚ but his main Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau of France‚ David Lloyd George of the Great Britain‚ and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.[1] The U.S. had joined the Allies in fighting the Central Powers on April
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Understanding the Tito-Stalin Split Introduction The split between Josip Broz Tito‚ leader of Yugoslavia‚ and Joseph Stalin‚ head of the Soviet Union‚ is arguably one of the most watershed moments in Soviet history. It was a sign of a rising and powerful Yugoslavia‚ the first break in the Eastern bloc‚ and inspired a shift in Soviet policy and political thought. Focusing on the timespan from 1941 to 1948‚ I claim that‚ though the break between the two leaders was caused by a variety of factors
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Serbia’s strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many peoples. Belgrade is believed to have been leveled to the ground by 30 different armies in recorded history. Apart from being under nominal Serbian rule since the 7th century (having been allowed to settle in Byzantium by its emperor Heraclius)‚ through history various parts of the territory of contemporary Serbia have been claimed or ruled by the Roman Empire (conquered the indigenous Celts and Illyrians); the
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