1625: Earliest documented attack by Barbary pirates on American merchant ships. 1678: Algerian pirates seize 14 ships from American colonies. September 1783: Algerian pirates attack American ships on their way back from peace talks with Britain. Americans assume that Britain is paying the Pirates to attack them. October 1784: The Betsy‚ a 300-ton ship from Boston‚ is attacked 100 miles from Africa’s western coast‚ in the Atlantic. The ship’s sailors are captured‚ chained and carted off to slave
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Nayar man‚ but partners of such a marriage did not cohabit‚ and the wife had only one duty‚ which was to attend the funeral of her husband and mourn his death. This unusual marriage rite is connected to the fact that Nayar men were professional mercenaries and were often absent from their villages. On return to their village they were allowed to have sexual relations with any of the women in the village‚ provided they were of lower or equal caste than themselves. Such relations were known as sandbanham
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Byzantine Empire vs. Roman Empire After the split of the Roman Empire‚ the Byzantine Empire bloomed in the east. Its greatest ruler‚ Justinian‚ made it his main goal to regain the lost territory and power of Rome. Although the Byzantine Empire was initially a part of the Roman Empire‚ there are many similarities and differences found in their creation‚ their interpretations of Christian beliefs‚ and their decline. Rome was supposedly founded in 753 BC by the twins Romulus and Remus in Italy
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of the country and established a heavy defense that British aircraft from Burma and India found hard to penetrate (“Timeline of World War II”). Then came former General Claire L. Chennault‚ who managed to set up the legendary first and only major mercenary air force in the world: the American Volunteer Group (AVG)‚ or Flying Tigers‚ who were made up entirely of Americans despite the fact that America was not yet at war (Regan). Flying the P-40 Tomahawk‚ they successfully defended the Burma Road and
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Research: Status quo in Syria Directions: Via a combination of information from the Upfront article and internet research‚ complete the following research guide to develop an understanding of what is happening in Syria. Upfront Magazine (page 14-15): 1. What sparked Syria’s uprising? What role do you think uprisings in other Arab countries played in Syria’s revolution? Protests of the torture of students who put up anti government graffiti sparked the uprising in Syria. Government troops
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King George lll Once a king named George ruled Britain and had done awful things. George was crowned the king in 1751 and was the king there for about 60 years. He’s done a lot to the colonist for wars he was in. He imposed many taxes such as Sugar act‚ Stamp act‚ and the Townshend act. George was in a war known as the revolutionary war and played an unknown role in that war. George had lost the war and it came to an end by the Treaty of Paris. King George iii was a vital role in the American
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The Twenty-Five Point Manifesto The Nazi Party was formed as the‚ German Workers party by Anton Drexler‚ Dietrich Eckhart and Gottfried Feder in 1919. Drexler‚ who was the original leader of the party‚ had strong nationalistic views and was anti-semitic. Hitler became captivated with the politics of the group‚ and began an effective contribution in the actions of the German Workers Party. His skills as a political speaker and his assertive manner within party meetings shortly led to Hitler becoming
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For what seems like forever females have been getting oppressed television‚ music‚ commercials are telling them how to look‚ dress and act and sadly video-games aren’t making the problem better as shown by the girls in BlazBlue. Most if not all these girls have an hourglass figure a big chest and seem to do whatever they can to act sexual wither it is how they react to getting hit or how their idle animation has them moving making their chest bounce. Now all these are extremely fit by unrealistically
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Without a strong army a nation that is surrounded by nomadic tribes that are ambitious to conquer them are doomed. The Roman army wasn’t at all strong because according to Montanelli (D5) their army was composed by foreigners‚ these German mercenaries were unskilled and felt little or no loyalty towards the Emperor. Also‚ according to Strayer‚ Gatzke‚ and Harbison (D1) an overwhelming majority of the Roman population believed the old civilization wasn’t worth saving. Therefore‚ they didn’t have
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problems were finances and control over some of his countries‚ such as Spain and the Netherlands. Philip II had many problems throughout Spain since the time it had grown unstable. Philip II had a debt and needed to pay back his bankers and mercenaries. He was able to make some money from the silver from mines in Bolivia. Since there was money coming from the Americas‚ Europe was able to gain some wealth. Europe also gained an increase
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