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Louis XIV

2007-02-19T16:52:53Z

Elizabeth B.:

Louis XIV lived from September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715. He was king of [[France]] from the age of four years eight months until his death. Louis called himself the "Sun King". He ruled as an absolute ruler. He like many of his time believed in Devine right. He abused his people and raised taxes for the benefit of his lavish life.

Oliver Cromwell

2007-02-14T21:06:24Z

Elizabeth B.:

Oliver Cromwell lived from April 25, 1599 to September 3, 1658. He was and english soldier and statesman who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars. His title was Lord Protector. To this day Cromwell is loved by many in England, but hated by others. The Irish, which suffered from his brutality in Ireland, vilify Cromwell. Royalists, or those who love the English monarchy, also hated Cromwell and even dug up his corpse to behead him once the monarchy regained power. The anger against Cromwell was so great that his severed head was displayed outside Westminster Abbey for over 20 years, from 1661 to 1685, and the remainder of his corpse thrown into a disgraceful pit.

Although there were many bad sides to Oliver Cromwell's rule, he did a few good things. He gave the people more rights and brought about educational reforms.

Roundheads

2007-02-06T14:15:37Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Roundheads were supporters of Parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War. They opposed the Royalists.

Dutch Empire

2007-02-02T15:48:37Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Dutch Empire in the 1600's was based on a world wide trade. They established the East India which sailed around Africa to the "East Indies.” They also had the Dutch West India Company which sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. They were the only Europeans to be permitted to trade with the Japanese. Before their decline they had the best fleet of ships.

Tobruk

2007-01-18T23:04:52Z

Elizabeth B.:

Tobruk is a port city in Libya. It was captured from the Italians during World War II by the British. Then it was captured by the Germans. However on November 14, 1932 the British recaptured the city.

French Indochina

2007-01-18T22:11:17Z

Elizabeth B.:

Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam were colonies held by France until the end of World War II. These colonies were called French Indochina.

Free French

2007-01-18T17:04:55Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Free French Forces were gorilla fighters who continued to fight the Axis Powers( Germany, Japan and Italy) after the surrender of France to Germany. This action was called for by Charles de Gaulle who was running a French government in exile.

Intifada

2007-01-18T16:45:05Z

Elizabeth B.:

Intifada is a Arabic word which means a person is shivering because of dread or sickness. It can also mean a hasty awakening. In politics this word represents the feebleness of the Palestinian people, their suffering and revolt against Israel.

INF Treaty

2007-01-18T16:26:46Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty or INF Treaty called for the United States and Soviet Union to eliminate all nuclear-armed ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles that could travel between 300-3400 miles. It also called for them to abandon all methods of maintaining and developing these missiles. This Treaty actually decreased the number of nuclear weapons. It was signed by the Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev on December 8 1987 and Preisident Ronald Regan on January 15 1988.

Intercontinental ballistic missile

2007-01-18T15:55:36Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile also known as ICBM is a military method of delivering nuclear weapons over great distances.

Henri Petain

2007-01-18T15:25:05Z

Elizabeth B.:

Henri Pathan he was born in 1856 and is best known as fot being both a military and political leader and for his heroic actions in World War I. He is also known as traitor for heading the Vichy government in France during World War II.

United Nations Security Council

2007-01-18T15:14:16Z

Elizabeth B.:

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is an organization within the United Nations that has the job of keeping peace among member nations. One aspect of this group is that they have the authority to order member nations to do as the Council decides. These orders are known as the Nations Security Council Resolutions.

Totalitarian state

2007-01-18T15:02:01Z

Elizabeth B.:

A totalitarian state is a state in which the government rules all aspects of both public and private aspects of it's citizen's lives.

World Health Organization

2007-01-18T14:50:05Z

Elizabeth B.:

The World Health Organization or WHO is a organization within the United Nations to designed to help people achieve their highest levels of health.

World Health Organization

2007-01-18T14:49:25Z

Elizabeth B.:

The World Health Organization or WHO is a organization within the united nations to designed top help people achieve their highest levels of health.

Strategic Defense Initiative

2007-01-18T13:58:23Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI was also known Star Wars was proposed by Ronald Reagan in the early 1980's. The SDI was a system that combined both ground and space-based defense systems to protect the US from nuclear missiles.

File talk:Violin,Bunny.JPG

2007-01-04T16:49:28Z

Elizabeth B.:

I saw your page. I really like it. How did you get thoose pictures on your page? Elizabeth
P.S. Are you going to the party on Saturday? I am.

Fascism

2007-01-04T16:33:56Z

Elizabeth B.:

Fascism is a political form of government that believes that the nation is more important then any individual. It is often an autocratic system that has a militarized government.

Human cloning

2007-01-04T14:41:17Z

Elizabeth B.:

Human cloning is the copying of a human using the DNA in the cells of the donor. People have tried to clone embryos, but the cloned child has not survived past birth. There are some moral and social issues with this that have yet to be addressed.

Concentration camp

2007-01-04T13:40:53Z

Elizabeth B.:

Concentration camps were camps countries set up for one race or disliked people. The most infamous camps were the camps set up by Hitler. In these camps Jews, Christians, Gypsies and anyone else that Hitler hated were either killed right away or worked until their death. No one knew these camps existed until allied soldiers discovered them toward the end of World War II.

Theory of relativity

2007-01-03T17:48:19Z

Elizabeth B.:

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity states that mass curves because space bends it.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

2007-01-02T20:35:09Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty or NPT was an agreement between countries that singed the treaty that there would be no more development or use of nuclear weapons. It also allowed for the surveillance of nuclear facilities by the IAEA also known as the International Atomic Energy Agency. This was singed by the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union and fifty-nine others on July 1, 1968. Other nations later singed onto this treaty. The only states that have chosen not to sing are Cuba, Israel, India, and Pakistan

Woodrow Wilson

2006-12-28T23:50:17Z

Elizabeth B.:

Woodrow Wilson was a president of United States. He was president from 1913-1921. Woodrow Wilson was the son of a preacher who grew up in the south after the civil war, because of this he knew a great deal about the humiliation, economic ruin and shame that the loser of a war experiences and the hatred that grows from this. This insight helped him make a forgiving plan for peace called the Fourteen Points.

Fourteen Points

2006-12-28T23:22:26Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Fourteen Points was a peace plan proposed by Woodrow Wilson. The point of this plan was to stop the humiliation of and economic damage to the losers of World war I. In his plan, every person in every nation would have a say in their future by voting. His plan also called for freedom of the seas and the formation of a League of Nations. When the peace treaty was singed most of Wilson's fourteen points were taken out, but his plan for League of Nations survived.

Nazi Party

2006-12-28T15:30:56Z

Elizabeth B.:

Nazis is an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers’ party . The group was formed when Hitler came into power by promising that there would be more jobs, Germany would be a better place and poverty would end. His power was increased when his followers used intimidation and violence to win a majority in the German Parliament. Once in power the Nazis became anti-Semitic (hating Jews) blaming the Jews for the trouble in Germany. They made laws against Jews and they required Jews to where a Star of David on their clothing. The Jews were mistreated, persecuted and killed by the Nazis.

Adolf Hitler

2006-12-20T14:01:32Z

Elizabeth B.:

Adolf Hittler was a very brutal dictator of Germany with the dream of taking over the world.

John Smith

2006-12-18T18:43:59Z

Elizabeth B.:

John Smith was a leader in the Jamestown settlement. John Smith was very heroic in many ways and did many things to keep the settlers in Jamestown alive. One of the less honorable things he did was lying. When the colonist came to Jamestown there was a terrible drought; therefore their crops didn't grow. When John Smith went looking for food he was captured by Indians or as we now say Native Americans. Instead of telling the truth to the chief, he told him that they were fighting the Spanish and their ship had been wrecked on the their coast. When the chief asked why they had come so far into his land John Smith said it was because they were going to attack the very tribe the chief's tribe was now fighting. So peace was made between the tribe and the settlers. The peace was increased when a different leader John Rolfe married the chief’s daughter.

Wilbur Wright

2006-12-18T18:23:16Z

Elizabeth B.:

Wilbur Wright was one of the Wright brothers. He and his brother Orville flew the first manned and powered air plane.

Macbeth

2006-12-12T20:59:15Z

Elizabeth B.:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespear. This play is thought to have been written around 1606.
This play has murder, betrayal and treachery. In the end,as in most stories with a good ending the hero wins.

Macbeth

2006-12-12T20:59:00Z

Elizabeth B.:

Macbeth

2006-12-12T20:58:20Z

Elizabeth B.:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespear. This play is thought to have been written around 1606.
This play has murder, betrayal and treachery. In the end, as in most stories with a good ending the hero wins.

Macbeth

2006-12-12T20:57:50Z

Elizabeth B.:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespear. This play is thought to have been written around 1606.
This play has murder, betrayal and treachery. In the end, as in most stories with a good ending the
hero wins.

Macbeth

2006-12-12T20:57:37Z

Elizabeth B.:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespear. This play is thought to have been written around 1606.
This play has murder, betrayal and treachery. In the end, as in most stories with a good ending the hero wins.

Macbeth

2006-12-12T20:55:55Z

Elizabeth B.:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespear. This play is thought to have been written around 1606. This play has murder, betrayal and treachery. In the end, as in most stories with a good ending the hero wins.

Declaration of Independence

2006-12-07T02:43:46Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Declaration of Independance was a declaration declaring our freedom from England.

Imperialism

2006-12-07T02:41:13Z

Elizabeth B.:

Imperialism is a policy of wanting more land, power and control for your country.

Quinine

2006-12-07T02:39:45Z

Elizabeth B.:

Quinine is a medicine from the bark of a tree. It is a bitter tasting drug that treats Malaria.

Plymouth Plantation

2006-12-07T01:59:09Z

Elizabeth B.:

Plymouth plantation was a English colony. Puritans came to this colony to worship God in their own way. They moved there after realizing that Holland was not a good home because their children were becoming too Dutch and forgetting their country.

Tennis Court Oath

2006-12-07T01:52:56Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Tennis Court Oath was a oath made by the Third Estate in a tennis court.

Treaty of Westphalia

2006-12-07T01:48:59Z

Elizabeth B.:

Treaty of Westphalia was the treaty that ended the Thirty Year's War.

Thomas Edison

2006-12-07T01:44:16Z

Elizabeth B.:

Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb. He lived in New Jersey.

George Washington

2006-12-06T15:09:10Z

Elizabeth B.:

Gorge Washington was our first President and a great commander in the revolutionary war. Gorge Washington had a beautiful home. However he regrettably left this beautiful home when he was elected to serve his country as President. Gorge Washington was the only president not to be elected by the people.

French and Indian Wars

2006-12-06T15:08:21Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Seven years war was a war in which France and England battled for the remaining parts of North America. When the French and English fought, the French usually won because the English had Bright red coats and stayed in traditional formation, so they were easily seen and shot down. Later the English turned their coats inside out and covered them in clay. This helped a great deal and the English acquired all the land French held except Louisiana. The Treaty of Paris was singed in 1763. This ended the Seven Year's War.

French and Indian Wars

2006-12-06T15:07:37Z

Elizabeth B.:

Whigs

2006-12-05T19:36:25Z

Elizabeth B.:

Whigs were a party in English politics from the late 1600's to the early 1800's. They were a liberal party who felt that Parlement should have more power then the Monarchy.They later became the Labour Party.

Whigs

2006-12-05T19:24:08Z

Elizabeth B.:

Whigs were a party in english politics. They later became a party called the labours.

John Smith

2006-12-05T19:17:04Z

Elizabeth B.:

John Smith was a leader in the Jamestown settlement. John Smith was very heroic in many ways and did many things to keep the settlers in Jamestown alive. One of the less honorable things was lying. When the colonist came to Jamestown there was a terrible drought; There fore the crop didn't grow. When John Smith went looking for food some Indians captured him. Instead of telling the truth to the chief he told him that they were fighting the Spanish and their ship was wreaked on the Indian’s coast. When the chief asked why they had come so far into his land he said it was because they were going to attack the very tribe the chief's tribe was now fighting. So there was peace between the tribe and the settlers. The peace was increased when a different leader John Rolfe married the chief’s daughter.

John Smith

2006-12-05T19:16:39Z

Elizabeth B.:

John Smith was a leader in the Jamestown settlement. John Smith was very heroic in many ways and did many things to keep the settlers in Jamestown alive. One of the less honorable things was lying. When the colonist came to Jamestown there was a terrible drought; There fore the crop didn't grow. When John Smith went looking for food some Indians captured him. Instead of telling the truth to the chief he told him that they were fighting the Spanish and their ship was wreaked on the Indian’s coast. When the chief asked why they had come so far into his land he said it was because they were going to attack the very tribe the chief's tribe was now fighting. So there was peace between the tribe and the settlers. The peace was increased when a different leader John Rolfe. married the chief’s daughter.

Mayflower

2006-12-05T12:39:42Z

Elizabeth B.:

The Mayflower was one of the first ships to sail and settle from England to what was then the colenies. On the ship they made the Mayflower compact. This was a set of laws they would follow when they landed in America.

Boers

2006-12-04T18:03:09Z

Elizabeth B.:

Boers are Africans who's ansesters are either Dutch or Huguenots.