Take me to the fries! "Little fry‚ who made thee?" In the beginning was the potato. How it found its way from the South American highlands into those little sacks of McDonald’s fries is a long‚ adventurous tale‚ involving Conquistadors‚ Marie Antoinette‚ and Thomas Jefferson. Millionaires have been made and millions more have died from dependence on that simple‚ innocent potato. Here‚ then‚ is the story of the spud‚ which reached its crowning achievement only once it had been paired with oil
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Explain the key features of ‘The Terror’ The Terror was a phase during the French Revolution when many people of France were executed for supposedly being ‘Enemies of the Revolution’. The Committee of Public Safety were behind most of the deaths and they were lead mainly by Maximilien de Robespierre. The greatest factors of the Terror were the revolution itself‚ internal political rivalry‚ social and economic problems‚ wars‚ leadership‚ violence and the Thermidorian reaction. These can be broadly
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Spies had a huge impact on the Civil War. Spies would transfer information from either Confederacy to Union or from Union to Confederacy. Life as a spy was extremely dangerous. If you were a male caught spying you were sentenced to death in front of a firing squad. For women the sentence was less severe‚ most would just get imprisoned‚ but if caught with very serious information or spying for a second time after being imprisoned‚ they would be killed. Spies had to be extremely quick thinkers in
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others one might look into the perspective of the surrounding environment of certain tribes. For example‚ many woodland Indians such as the ones on the Eastern Coast were more advanced as to making tools and trading with other local tribes. While other Native American groups stayed in a routine of making the same crops‚ and using the same weapons‚ others experimented with what they were given and used different techniques to aid in their success. S while these more advanced tribes far exceeded other
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The French Revolution The years before the French Revolution (which started in 1789 AD.) were ones of vast‚ unexpected change and confusion. One of the changes was the decline of the power of the nobles‚ which had a severe impact on the loyalty of some of the nobles to King Louis XVI. Another change was the increasing power of the newly established middle class‚ which would result in the monarchy becoming obsolete. The angry and easily manipulated peasants‚ who were used by the bourgeoisie
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during the French Revolution? Even though the French Revolution brought terror and it seems like nothing good came out of it‚ in the following sections you’ll find out that the educational system was one of the things that did improve and what the education was like before‚ during and after the revolution. Not only that people realized their need for education‚ but also important figures‚ as Napoleon‚ supported them and came with new ideas. Before the French Revolution‚ life in French was easy
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German targets. Then‚ Britain and France joined the war with the willing of ending the war and keeping the peace. But‚ Germany still occupied Poland and turned to attack France on 10 May 1940 and France only kept 35 days then it was defeated. So‚ I believe that France is forced to enter the war‚ and it’s fight for peace and justice during the WWII. There are three reasons for it. Germany attacked Poland‚ and then Britain and France declared the war with Germany to keep the peace. Germany attacked France
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Eastern Woodland And The Seven Years’ War The Eastern Woodland Indians mainly consisted of two major regions the Iroquois‚ which comprised of five tribes and added an additional a sixth later‚ and the Cherokee. The Indians in the Eastern Woodland nation lived East of the plains and all the way to the coast‚ Iroquois in North Eastern currently know as the Ohio area and Cherokee South Eastern currently known as the Tennessee and Georgia area. All Indians lived off the lands hunting‚ gathering‚
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Social Studies III: The French Revolution & Napoleon PART 1: MANY PROBLEMS LEAD TO REVOLUTION IN FRANCE Differences of Americans and French People: BOTH SOUGHT INDEPENDENCE! In America… a) Revolutionaries sought independence from Britain b) Retained many British political ideas and institutions In France… a) Revolutionaries sought independence from old regime b) Revolutionaries were far more ambitious c)
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Borrowings from French language The English language has been shaped by a number of other languages over the centuries‚ and many English speakers know that Latin and German were two of the most important. What many people don’t realize is how much the French language has influenced English. Without going into too much detail‚ I want to give a little bit of background about the other languages which shaped English. It was born out of the dialects of three German tribes (Angles‚ Jutes and Saxons) who
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