History A-Z III

[Kveldulf]

X-radiation - discovery often credited to Wilhelm Rontgen in 1895.

 

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Yalta Conference

 

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Yin and Yang, which are often shortened to "yin-yang" or "yin yang", are concepts used to describe how apparently opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

 

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Zoroastrianism became a formal religion by about the 6th century BCE and has influenced other later religions including Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity and Islam

 

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Addams, Jane

 

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Bank of America Corporation is an American multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The history of Bank of America dates back to 1904, when Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.

The Bank of Italy served the needs of many immigrants settling in the United States at that time, a service denied to them by the existing American banks who were typically discriminatory and often denied service to all but the wealthiest.

Giannini was raised by his mother and stepfather Lorenzo Scatena, as his father was fatally shot over a pay dispute with an employee.

When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, Giannini was able to save all deposits out of the bank building and away from the fires. Because San Francisco's banks were in smoldering ruins and unable to open their vaults, Giannini was able to use the rescued funds to commence lending within a few days of the disaster. From a makeshift desk consisting of a few planks over two barrels, he lent money to those who wished to rebuild.

Later in life, he took great pride in the fact that all of these loans were repaid.

 

[TexasWild]

Charlemagne

 

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Donner Party

 

[Kveldulf]

Edward the Confessor

 

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The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best known work written by American author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson.

The children's book tells the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. He sits in the middle of the bull ring failing to take heed of any of the provocations of the matador and others to fight.

The book was released nine months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and was seen by many supporters of Francisco Franco as a pacifist book.

It was banned in many countries, including in Spain. In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered the book burned, while Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, granted it privileged status as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland.

India's leader Mahatma Gandhi called it his favorite book.

 

[LadyVer]

Geronimo

 

[Kveldulf]

Harold Godwinson, King of Wessex

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

Indira Gandhi

 

[jacktar48]

Johannes Kepler: First to correctly explain planetary motion, thereby becoming founder of celestial mechanics and the first "natural laws" in the modern sense; being universal, verifiable, precise.

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

Karl Marx

 

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Lane Bryant is a United States retail women's clothing store chain focusing on plus-size clothing.

It began in 1904 with the innovative maternity designs created by Lena Himmelstein Bryant Malsin.

As of 2013, the chain consists of 812 stores in 46 U.S. states (only Alaska, Hawaii, Montana and Wyoming do not have Lane Bryant stores).

 

[RUlookingup]

Massachusetts Bay Colony

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

Nehru

 

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Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889

 

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Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.

 

[LadyVer]

Quentin Roosevelt

 

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The Rt Hon Cecil John Rhodes DCL (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902)[1] was a British businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa.

Rhodes was named the chairman of De Beers at the company's founding in 1888. De Beers, established with funding from NM Rothschild & Sons Limited in 1887, today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds, and at one time marketed 90%.

An ardent believer in British colonialism, Rhodes was the founder of the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which was named after him in 1895.

 

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Spanish Inquisition

 

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Tacitus

 

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Utrecht, Treaty of