The Hindenburg disaster remains one of the most influential events in shaping the modern day industry. The LZ-129 Hindenburg‚ a passenger zeppelin (or more commonly referred to as a blimp)‚ tragically crashed on Thursday‚ May 6‚ 1937‚ resulting in 36 casualties. In an instant the Hindenburg was engulfed in flames resulting in people’s lives‚ this disaster is still to this day one of the most influential events in aviation history. The LZ-129 Hindenburg was a German passenger zeppelin manufactured
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Explain why Alexander III introduced reactionary policies after 1881. (12) The years leading up to 1881 were fraught with political opposition and threats of revolution. The autocracy was being threatened and publicly questioned by groups such as groups of student radicals like ‘the Organisation’. They used their highly intellectualised reasoning to try and mould the public opinion to accept rebellion. From 1860‚ students offered high level unrest and eventually die to the unrest‚ Russian educated
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Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck is a prominent mathematician who is well known for his theories in algebraic geometry‚ homological algebra and functional analysis. He was born in the capital of Germany‚ Berlin‚ in 1928‚ one year before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Grothendieck’s parents were Sascha Shapiro and Hanka Grothendieck. Shapiro was a Russian anarchist of Jewish decent‚ prosecuted by the Czar and later by the Bolsheviks. He’d lost his left arm during an attempted prison
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Alexander the Great‚ king of Macedonia‚ accomplished much in his lifetime. He added many new lands to his vast empire including Asia Minor‚ Syria‚ Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Persia‚ Sogdiana‚ and part of India. He became the conqueror of the world he knew. Alexander the Great was the son of Princess Olympias of Epirus (Cinderella) and King Philip II of Macedonia (Popovic). His parents hated each other and had an unstable marriage (Cinderella). Philip’s relationship with Alexander was also poor. He once
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alliances and Balkan nationalism are important factors involving WWI. The alliance between Great Britain‚ France and Russia created a bigger threats on Germany and Balkan nationalism helped create tension
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Analysis of Federalist Paper No.15 Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Paper No.15 expressed how he felt about the people and the government. Hamilton argued non-stop about the Constitution problems and how he would like to solve them. Hamilton had his own beliefs‚ fears‚ and assumptions about the arguments he faced with the Constitution‚ but he was not afraid to speak up and speak out about how he would solve them himself. In the Federalist paper No. 15‚ Alexander Hamilton argues that a stronger central
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Scholarship regarding the economic effects of Alexander III’s conquest mostly agrees that because Alexander minted such large quantities of coinage in such a short period of time‚ he effectively inflated prices across the entire Mediterranean. This idea is supported by the Quantity Theory of Money‚ which states that an increase in the money supply will create a proportional increase in the price level‚ as the velocity and real value of transactions remain constant. Despite the fact that this theory
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There are four reasons why Alexander Hamilton argued in favor of the development of manufacturing. His first reason was that manufacturing would help the economy. The economy would grow financially and manufacturing would cause more trade. His second reason was that manufacturing would bring down tariffs‚ which would cause more trade and jobs. His third reason was that manufacturing would bring more immigration to the “Young America”. With the new population it will expand America and open more areas
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How far did Russia experience a period of “reaction” following the assassination of Alexander II? On 13 March 1881‚ Tsar Alexander II was assassinated by the populist terrorist group the “People’s Will”‚ due to the reforms he had created‚ although he was on the way to give Russia its first national assembly before his death. Therefore his son Alexander III became Tsar in place of his deceased father. Immediately‚ Alexander III turned his back on all the reforms created by his father‚ and he swiftly
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C.M. The Influence of Christianity in Essay on Man Alexander Pope is an eighteenth century writer who spent most of his life suffering. He had a rare form of tuberculosis which left him in constant pain. As a result of this disease‚ he never grew very tall. He was only about four and a half feet tall and he also experienced migraines (Greenblatt 2714). Despite all of Pope’s impediments‚ he managed to write Essay on Man which portrays an extremely optimistic outlook on life. Although Pope
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