players were trading in their major league uniforms to fight for another team. The war claimed talents like Joe DiMaggio‚ Ted Williams‚ and Bob Feller. Team owners come up with a solution to halt a shut down. A League of Their Own‚ directed by Penny Marshall and released July 1‚ 1992‚ was a portrayal of the baseball debacle that happened during World War II. Columbia Pictures Corporation casted top names like: Tom Hanks‚ Geena Davis‚ Lori Petty‚ Madonna‚ and Jon Lovitz. While the men were fighting
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Negro Baseball Leagues Baseball is known as one of America’s favorite pastimes. A fun filled family outing would include a picnic and a trip to see their favorite Major League Baseball team play. The faces of the children would light up when they caught a foul ball. This pastime of "baseball" was one of segregation and a naïve sense of enjoyment‚ for the "baseball" that they knew was a game of only Caucasian Americans. Little did they know‚ some of the most talented players were African-American
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Athenians to transform the Delian League into the Athenian Empire. (25 marks) There is certainty no evidence to suggest that the Athenians had any long-term plans‚ in the years 479-470 BC‚ to change the Delian League into an empire‚ although from the beginning the potential to develop into an imperial power were there. Because from the beginning‚ Athens had considerable power as she was the permanent hegemon.The most important aspects involving the transformation of League into empire was the changing
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“A League of their Own” review During World War II when men were gone overseas fighting for the war‚ women needed to fill the jobs they had left‚ including sports entertainment. In the 1992 film “A league of their own‚” ‚ a group of young ladies join the first All American girls professional baseball league and defy the laws of gender roles in that era. Penny Marshal directed this film. It Features Tom Hanks‚ Geena Davis‚ Lori Petty‚ and Madonna. Tom Hanks gained recognition by winning Funniest
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As a new nation‚ America needed a national government if they wanted to stay united. In result‚ on March 2‚ 1781‚ a plan by Ben Franklin called the Articles of Confederation was ratified to act as framework for America’s central government. The Articles of Confederation was purposely created to have a weak central government‚ in fear of a tyrannical government like Britain’s. The idea behind the Articles were to place a limit on how much power each state had while maintaining its “Sovereignty‚ freedom
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The Arab League. The Arab League is a regional organization that was founded on March 22‚ 1945. The league’s function is to promote political cooperation among it’s member states‚ and to deal with disputes or any breaches of peace in the region. The league’s official name is the League of Arab States. The founding members of the league are: Egypt‚ Syria‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ and Yemen. Membership in the League was later extended to Algeria‚ Bahrain‚ Djibouti‚ Kuwait‚ Libya‚
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League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X‚ inspired by the mod Defense of the Ancients for the video game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. It is a free-to-play game‚ supported by micro-transactions. It was first announced on October 7‚ 2008‚ and released on October 27‚ 2009. League of Legends was generally well received at release‚ and has grown in popularity in the years since. Gameplay Players are
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Premier league commonly known as Premier League or the Barclays PremierLeague is very famous and almost all football fanatics from all over the world follow itpassionately. So passionately that there are several pubs all across England who follow specificclubs and if you are a person who support other clubs or teams‚ you are not allowed inside. Ifyou do end up in their place somehow and they come to know that you support other sides‚ youare literally kicked out.The English premier league known as
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Origin In 480‚ the Persian king Xerxes invaded Greece‚ defeated his enemies at Artemisium and Thermopylae‚ and sacked Athens. Although his navy was severely damaged in the naval battle ofSalamis‚ it was obvious that the Persians were the strongest. So‚ the great king recalled many troops. This gave the Greeks the breathing space they needed‚ and they defeated Xerxes’ right-hand man Mardonius at Plataea. More or less at the same time‚ a Greek expeditionary force attacked the remains of the Persian
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What makes a nation rich? MIT economist Daron Acemoglu considered why some nations thrive economically while others do not in an article in Esquire magazine. Asking what makes a nation rich he pondered on why some nations as in the United States are well developed and have better standards of living than many countries in Africa‚ South Asia‚ South America‚ and around the world. He argues that inequality is not predetermined‚ nations are not created poor or rich but that their governments make them
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