What was the impact of World War II on Belfast. Northern Ireland was very important to the war effort. During World War 2‚ Northern Ireland was controlled by unionists and therefore was still a part of Britain. Belfast was a very important city in N. Ireland. Many things were manufactured in Belfast such as ships‚ planes‚ uniforms and soldiers . In the early years of the war‚ there were restrictions in place like there was in Britain. These included rationing‚ censorship and travel restrictions
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Timur‚ or Tamerlane‚ was the last great nomadic nomadic conqueror of Asia‚ and founder of the Timurid Empire and Dynasty. During his zenith‚ he commanded an empire which stretched from modern-day Turkey to Nepal. Most of Timur’s life was spent in military conquest. His military expansions often involved the wholsale slaughter and genocide of the conquered peoples‚ leaving dead hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and civilians. The life and analysis of Timur’s reign can be divided into three
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To what extent was the Tsarist economy transformed between 1881 – 1905? The torpor of the Russian economy compared to other European Great Powers was a prominent predicament to both Alexander III and Nicholas II. In order to sustain Russia’s Great Power status‚ both Tsars engaged in a policy of economic renewal between the years 1881 and 1095. Despite success in managing to proliferate economic growth rates‚ the attempts of economic reform between 1881 and 1905 weren’t sufficient in order to make
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Causes of Accident Challenger’s STS-51L mission was scheduled for Launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral‚ Fla. “After several technical and weather-related delays‚ Challenger launched at 11:38 a.m. EST on Jan. 28‚ 1986” (Chow‚ 2011). The ship exploded 73 seconds after liftoff (Howell‚ 2012). The (mechanical) cause of the accident points to pressure seals (O-rings) but more importantly points to the serious problems that NASA had with its communication channels and safety information
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Have you ever wondered what was the purpose of life was? The purpose of life is confusing and there are many questions to answer. Well‚ one person had done an experiment on himself for two years in the woods and his name Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau wanted to know about the purpose of life. So‚ on July 4‚ 1845‚ he went to Concord‚ Massachusetts in to Walden’s woods near a pond. During his two years in the woods‚ he wrote a journal explaining about the purpose of life at the woods. The question to
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The Kalmar Union existed from 1397 until 1521 and was named after the Swedish city Kalmar in which the union was founded by the kingdoms Sweden‚ Denmark‚ and Norway. In June 1397 67 men from the clerical and secular nobility signed a draft agreement‚ that unified the countries under one king. The state structure was left unimpaired and important positions were not to be given to foreigners. Queen Margret from Denmark strictly led the union until her death in 1412. The Hanse at first supported the
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Racism and divorce rates. 1961 was a difficult time due to high divorce rates and segregation of whites and blacks. Stan Lee‚ the author who created the Fantastic Four had seen the issues and put this group of heroes together to battle the rival Justice League in the battle of Popularity. (Linder‚ Vital statistics of the United states‚ 1961)‚ (St. James Encyclopedia of popular culture). The company that created the Fantastic Four was Marvel and the main creator was Stan Lee. The Fantastic four were
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released in the late 1960’s. UNIX was the first operating system that would run on different models of computers‚ and used a common communications protocol called TCP/IP to talk between the different machines. TCP/IP stands for "Transmission Control Protocol / Internetworking Protocol" and the word "Internet" came from that. What was the first name of Internet before it was called Internet? The name of the web platform that was first developed as a research network was called: ARPANET (Advanced Research
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increased twice. Cotton industry was well-developed and was important in rising England but it was not enough of those power. The process of cleaning and spinning of the cotton was in one household and then in another house cloth were made. Such process works well‚ but because of growing population and their demand for cloth such type of producing cloth takes too much time. With increased demand for yarn‚ industry starts to search the ways how to improve cotton spinning. It was one of the bottlenecks. The
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Henry the VIII wanted to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon in 1527 with using an annulment‚ this was then Wolsey’s job to provide what the king wanted. Due to Wolsey’s constant victories‚ he was able to sustain power for 15 years‚ outlasting the King‘s other advisers. Yet his fall was swift and dramatic‚ which came after his failure of obtaining Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. In regards to this‚ it seems clear that this is the reason why Wolsey fell from power‚ yet there are possible
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