What was it like for the early settlers of Jamestown? What was life like during the Dust Bowl? What was life like for miners during the California Gold Rush? What was the center of Iroquois life? What cultural assumptions are inherent in the Frontier Thesis?
So relieved was U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill that he described Lend-Lease as "tantamount to a declaration of war." At the same time, the U.S. Navy entered the great naval conflict in the Atlantic, where Nazi German submarines threatened the vital trade lifeline from North America...
Whenhewas20,in1985,Kéréearnedavocationalscholarshiptostudycarpentry(木工)in Berlin.Butwhileabsorbedinthepracticalityofroofingandfurnituremaking,healsoattended nightschoolandwasadmittedtoTechnicalUniversityofBerlin,fromwhichhegraduatedin2004 withanadvanceddegreeinarchitecture.Hewasstillastudentwhenhedesignedandbuiltthe...
The whole episode could easily make one think that this sort of thing must have been what it was like in Germany during the 1930's. 整个场景很容易让人想到这样的事肯定只有在20世纪30年代德国的发生过。 article.yeeyan.org 4. For a moment, a nimbus of energy tendrils crackled around Rodimus...
Now, carving their faces took over six and a half years, and cost almost a million dollars.And this was in the 1930s, during the worst economic depression in U.S. history!Does that strike any of you as odd? Well, I personally think that the Great Depression of the 1930s actually mak...
August Wilson was a famous American writer. He left school in the ninth grade. In the late 1960s, Wilson built a theater and began to think of ways to make people know more about African-American life. He had the idea of a series of(系列) plays. Each of the plays showed how African...
In 1930, W.K.Kellogg made what he thought was a sensible decision, grounded in the best economic, social and management theories of the time.Workers at his cereal plant in Battle Greek, Mich.were told to go home two hours earlier, every day for good. The Depression-era move was hailed...
What was life like in New France?New France:New France was the name of France's colony in North America. It was centered in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec. Quebec was ceded to the British after the Seven Years' War.
Ocean temperature reflects the climate. This can be used to find out what the climate was like before, during, and after dinosaurs became extinct. But unlike other scientists, paleontologists cannot go into a laboratory and repeat experiments. They can only untangle history by examining fossils. ...
The term “redlining” was coined by sociologist John McKnight in the 1960s. It is derived from the literal practice—used by the federal government and lenders beginning in the 1930s—of drawing a red line on a map around the neighborhoods they would not invest in based on the racial dem...