The Kelly outbreak is a famous phenomenon in Australia’s colonial history. Whilst some people prefer to see the outbreak as a simple criminal incident between an outlaw and the police‚ most historians view it as a broader sociological phenomenon‚ involving conflict between a larger rural community and the colonial authorities. An important issue for historians has been to understand the underlying causes of this criminal outbreak‚ whether it was mainly due to personal‚ ethnic or socio-economic
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different diseases and illnesses. One of these diseases was cholera‚ a disease characterised by diarrhea and vomiting‚ which can lead to severe dehydration and often resulted in death. Cholera outbreaks spread through London many times in the 19th century. One of the most well known outbreaks took place in London’s Golden Square in the summer of 1854. This outbreak was extremely
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The 1924 Olympics in Paris‚ France was the last time rugby was featured as an Olympic sport. After the US beat Romania 37-0‚ they surprisingly beat France 17-3 and won the gold medal. During the medal ceremony‚ the Star Spangled Banner was drowned out by the amount of hissing and booing from the viewers in the stadium. This was followed by a pitch invasion – a rushing of the field by fans. Because of this and the focus on more ‘independent’ sports‚ the International Olympic Committee decided to remove
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| Why was Microsoft Investigated for Antitrust Behavior? Karen Elmore ECON 312 Professor Guerman Kormilov Devry University Microsoft is a very large and diverse computer software company. It was investigated for antitrust behavior after there were reports that Microsoft was abusing their position as the leading supplier of computer operating systems. Lawmakers investigated to see if Microsoft was trying to create a monopoly of the computer software market. They found that Microsoft
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Catie Park Professor Aaron Krall English 161 12 March 2013 Mythbuster: Are Suburbs Really Cleaner than Cities? The beautiful scenery of American suburbs persuades us that suburbs are cleaner than cities. Since greenery is more visually attractive than brownness filled with mobs of people and congestion‚ this claim must be true. Well‚ is it? Edward Glaeser and David Owen attempt to bust this myth through their works‚ Triumph of the City and Green Metropolis. They defy the myth and claim that
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source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/29/cool-britannia-g20-blair-brown/print) Stryker McGuire The Observer‚ Sunday 29 March 2009 This time I’ve come to bury Cool Britannia American journalist Stryker McGuire wrote the magazine article that initiated the ’Cool Britannia’ phenomenon in 1996. Back then‚ the City was the engine of our prosperity‚ British music‚ nightlife‚ art and fashion were the best in the world‚ and a young‚ dynamic Tony Blair was about to topple the Tories. Now McGuire
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Is Life for us is better than it was for our forefathers? Day before Yesterday a mother got weepy when she wanted to see the face of her son‚ yesterday she weeps having son’s photo in hands and today she can get a smile after clicking a button for video conferences. Long days before people were living in caves and eating raw foods. When stone era moved forward then wooden homes cam and cooked food. Wooden era passed and semi developed era came; people became educated and followed many philosophies
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of Columbia were reported to have measles…Most of these cases [117 cases (70%)] are part of a large multi-state outbreak linked to an amusement park in California.” The CDC suspects that a patron that visited the amusement park most likely traveled out of seas before the visit. They also stated that the virus type for the measles outbreak in the US is similar to the large measles outbreak in the Philippines that occurred the year before. This same virus type has also been identified in 14 other countries
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January 20). Five Things to Know About The Disneyland Measles Outbreak. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/01/20/five-things-to-know-about-the-disneyland-measles-outbreak/#1e0012df273c. In this magazine article “Five Things To Know About The Disneyland Measles Outbreak” it talks about a recent outbreak that happened in Disneyland in Southern California‚ and what are the possible reasons for the outbreak. The outbreak occurred because there are a lot of children who were not vaccinated
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The policy of appeasement was widely pursued by Britain and France in the 1930s‚ when it referred to attempting to satisfy Germany’s demands by negotiation and compromise‚ which would avoid war. However due to its failure the policy of appeasement‚ to a large extent was responsible for the outbreak of war in 1939. It is clear that if the Western Powers had retaliated against Hitler‚ war could have been avoided‚ it encouraged Hitler‚ Hitler could never be appeased‚ and that it prompted the Nazi-Soviet
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