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...This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Crane's novel does not concentrate on the big picture or the glory of war but on the psychology of one of its soldiers....

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...d States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude toward slavery and emancipation. (Summary by Guero)...

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...livered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated the Confederates at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as ...

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...Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short sto...

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...bservation and light touch make this a most engaging book. It is a fascinating insight into the Englishman's travels abroad within two decades of the American Civil War and the end of Japanese isolationism. This is the first of two volumes covering his journey with his wife. This first volume includes his travels in America and in Japan, including the Atlantic and Pacific ...

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... Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching o...

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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...I. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little... ...III. Russia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nation... ... Iraq’s Debts XIII. Kosovo’s Iraqi Lessons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam V... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Macedonia tin 2001. Osama bin-Laden, another CIA go... ...e rough, immutable kernel of American narcissism. The United States was (until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s) and still is, in some import... ...a deeply disturbed polity emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust...

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...is youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of the American Civil War. Hamilton is not always historically precise. For example, she erroneously names Jefferson Davis as the Southern Democratic candidate for president running against Lincoln and Douglas in 1860 rather than Jo...

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...reacher and patriot. In addition to his moral stature, he was a man of great physical bearing as well, standing six feet four inches tall. During the American Civil War he upheld the cause of the North and opposed slavery, and his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. He was asked to be the full-time chaplain at Har...

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...Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Francisco, and is credited (though perhaps erroneously) with inventing the game of baseball. In 1861, he had the distinction as a captain to be second-in-command ...

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...caust, the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in motion only so late in World War II? • Why did the Nazi SS work hand-in-glove with Zionist ... ... survivors, ashen residues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as two near-skeletons in a DP camp - that’s a Disp... ...impressed. And the decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. People are very animated and amiable but ther... ...o King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you can feel it among its winding alleys, stone... ...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...nker. He left us orphaned and at the mercy of the Red barbarians. He mismanaged the war and unnecessarily and stupidly abused the nations he occupie... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ...s all incongruously sumptuous. People in SS uniforms are hurrying to and fro, their civilian secretaries and assistants in toe. They all salute Eich...

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...the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as Toby M.P., a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute power...

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... The following account of a remarkable case of somnambulism contributed to the American Journal of Medical Science by Dr. Belden. an able practitio... ...e presentiment as to the fate of his friend Kirkaldy of Grange, who, during the civil war of that period, was holding the Castle of Edinburgh in the ... ...entiment as to the fate of his friend Kirkaldy of Grange, who, during the civil war of that period, was holding the Castle of Edinburgh in the cause ... ...crease Mather then president of Cambridge college, – a position then of greater civil and church power than any other in the land; he was also the g...

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...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...re facts end and wishful thinking takes over. Father acknowledges he was no war hero, though he did his share of fighting. Mother understands she w... ...n. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalises alternative ... ... who find themselves caught up in anomic states – for instance, soldiers in war or incarcerated inmates – tend to feel helpless and alienated. They ... ...he offender can force their disclosure in a court of law simply by filing a civil lawsuit against the survivor! The first task is to legitimise and v... ...segregate their conduct and to be verbally abusive towards the abuser while civil and compassionate with others, to act with malice where their ment...

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...After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected ...

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...obra más, sino un especial trabajo sobre la Patagonia, que tiene por objeto desmitificar una acusación injusta que pretendió deteriorar el nombre del civilizador por antonomasia....

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...eto desmitificar una acusación injusta que pretendió deteriorar el nombre del civilizador por antonomasia. En efecto, el autor parte de varias y rei... ...pasado anómico y pretender un país y una población mejor, incorporándola a la civilización. La Argentina no existía como Nación y ella nace a la vid... ...n que desde la década de 1940 exhibe una exuberante barbarie y una escasez de civilización. Estos ideólogos incurren en la crítica, tanto de los his... ... que nos hacía sufrir la persecución, y dada la imperfección de los gobiernos americanos, estábamos dispuestos a aceptarlos como hechos, con ánimo d... ...que es un tributo rendido a la verdad, de la fea mancha de las preocupaciones americanas, contra las cuales he combatido diez años; y de las que no ... ...nía y dominio de la Confederación Argentina a la parte austral del continente americano, comprendida entre las costas del océano Atlántico y la gran... ... F. Sarmiento, op. cit., XXXV, pp. 24-25. 16 J. F. McLynn. The causes of the War of Triple Alliance: An Interpretation, Inter- American Economic Aff... ...mith, The Role of José M. Balmaceda in Preserving Argentine Neutrality in the War of the Pacific, Hispanic American Historical Review (H:A.H.R.), vol... ...tine Wheat, 1860-1910, Austin, 1964, y V. G. Kiernan, Foreign Interest in the War of the Pacific, H. A. H. R. XXXV, february 1955, pp. 14-36, Fuente...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Christian civilizations and religions. It was not long before I discovered Carl Jung’... ...alled “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civilization there is no room for subjective experience or for the importan... ... unlike Plato who had become my 3. Jung, C.W., vol. 16, paragraph 99 4. In Civilisation and Its Discontents, (original 1930), the first two pages, in ... ...d former Yugoslavia. When this chapter was first formulated, nine years of war had just ended between Iraq and Iran which, among other causes, found a... ...cticed amongst the nations that were members of their League despite their war complex that led them into revenge raids and also into depicted between... ...ded to captives taken from tribes outside the League in ever proliferating war parties often undertaken, at least ostensibly, to console and avenge th...

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...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. ... ...owledge upset the balance of power and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in t... ...oved on to evolutions and revolutions that upset the power balance in one civilization after another. • Pioneer leaders of today‘s ongoing informati... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of ... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unle... ...bility of the Mongol Empire he had created. The victor in the family civil war was a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even gr... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1...