King Ay was the Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt‚ who reigned from 1325 BC to 1321 BC He was the successor of Tutankhamun who ruled from 1334 BC to 1325 BC. Ay was succeeded by Horemheb (1321 – 1292 BC). Ay was also given a royal name‚ i.e. Kheperkheperure which meant "Everlasting is the Manifestations of Re" (tripod.com). When Akhenaten was ruling‚ Ay came to be known as ‘Master of Horses’. Later‚ he used to serve as the Grand Vizier when Tutankhamun was in power. He had much influence
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John Le Carre – The spy who came in from the cold – analysis The spy who came in from the cold‚ written by John Le Carre is happen to be one of the best piece of the literary history of spies. The English writer‚ who is one of the best well-known figure in the spy fiction‚ received the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize for this book. The book is credible because the author himself worked in the intelligence service for a long time. In the 1950s and 1960s he had worked to the MI5
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The Cold War was partly fought in the Olympics Games. Discuss. The Cold War was a ‘war’ fought from 1947 to 1991‚ a battle fought with tension and subdued hostility‚ in which most of the world was affected. The main ‘participants’ in this war were America and its allies‚ against Russia and the aligning countries with that nation. Instead of fighting the war straight up‚ the countries played it out in more subtle ways.1 Politics have been involved in the Olympics for a long time2‚ and the Cold War
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Sweet Dreams The Man Who Was Thursday was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1907. We enter the story in the suburb of Saffron Park in London during the Edwardian era. When the sun is setting Mr. Lucian Gregory‚ the anarchic poet‚ is brought into the novel‚ along with Gabriel Syme‚ an undercover policeman. Further in the novel we meet Sunday‚ the head of the anarchist council‚ and his fellow members. Syme later finds out that all the members of the council are cops just like him. Syme
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surrounding the accuracy of The Crucible. Did these events actually happen‚ or was it made it up to scare people and teach life-long morals? Dedicated historians and investigators strive to answer and pose new questions‚ forming educated ideas to shape possible theories. Was Arthur Miller’s point really to tell the account of a scandalous time period in history? Many people feel that was not the real motive of the piece. Salem was in such unrest during 1692. The unfortunate‚ reoccurring events of bad weather
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Was Anna Anderson Anastasia? There have been many claims regarding whether or not Anna Anderson was Anastasia. There are several reports both agreeing and denying that this claim is true. Whether it is true or false no one will ever know. There can only be evidence to back up someone’s argument‚ even if its wrong. Anastasia Romanov was born June 5‚1901. Her father was the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Her mother was Alexandra Fyordorvn‚ the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and her husband Albert
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Cold War Fears DBQ Essay Deep Patel Harry S. Truman has now his terms as president. A new president has stepped up to the plate‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower. However‚ Eisenhower needs to pick up where Truman had left off. He has to keep the country stable and deal with foreign policies. But‚ Eisenhower needs to face another issue at hand. With the Cold War going on‚ Americans are starting to fear the aftermath of the Second World War. From things like the Red Scare to the spread of communism
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Activity #4 Essay "Truman was more responsible for the Cold War than Stalin was." President Truman was convinced from the beginning that Stalin intended to take over countries based solely by the fact that there were communist parties present in them. France‚ Italy and even China‚ are perfect examples of this. And in the Greek civil war it wasn’t the USSR that was giving aid to the communists‚ it was Yugoslavia. It was obvious that Stalin had no major plans for any kind of global communist
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global nuclear war‚ with the two most powerful nations‚ United States and Soviet Union entangled in a standoff. The Soviet Union‚ under Premier Nikita Khrushchev had secretly deployed medium range ballistic missiles and intermediate range ballistic missiles to Cuba with Cuban leader Fidel Castro ’s consent. The missiles which posed a direct threat to U.S cities‚ military installations and the general population were intended to counter a strategic imbalance between U.S.S.R and U.S incase war erupted‚ given
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The end of the cold war has given the United States much more advantage in shaping its policy choices because uni-polarity ceased the opportunity of regional players that they enjoyed within the bipolar world System. Rajesh Rajagopalan explained in his article ‘Extra-regional Powers and the Emerging Security Scenario in South Asia’ that it was the regional powers‚ India and Pakistan‚ that achieved their strategic objectives by subverting American and Soviet agenda in this region. T.V. Paul also
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