For these reasons, the 1863 New Zealand Settlement Act, and soon afterward, the Native Land Courts were established, both of which ignored Maori rights. This deeply upset the Tuhoe tribe who had fought tirelessly to put an end to the land confiscations and surveying as brought about by the Native Land Court. ... The Native Land Courts and land confiscations, and more importantly the Urewera 1896 Act were major sources of grievance to Rua and the rest of the Tuhoe tribe, and thus a significant factor of Rua's resistance during the First World War. The First World War gave Rua the platfor...

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America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... When Moses died, his son Steven Austin took over the project, and brought over 2000 new immigrants, called empresarios, to settle in the colony. ... When Costa Rica declared war on Nicaragua, Walker found that much of the native population had rebelled to join the Costa Ricans and suddenly found him outnumbered. In a second Battle of Rivas, Costa Ric...

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Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Munich as a non-practicing Jew. He was born with a very large head that was oddly shaped. Albert took much longer to learn to talk than other children, and his parents feared...

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"He was the second son. "The oldest son would go into the army, the next brother would be a doctor, a brother after that would be a businessman- (Ondaatje, 182). ... Hana and Kips relationship is much more beautiful; Hana a nurse from Canada, and Kip who is a native from India. ...

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Max Beckmann born in 1884 and died in 1950 was an artist who is widely regarded as the greatest native-born German painter of his generation, yet his achievement is often deformed. ... She lost her son to World War I and her grandson to World War II and these losses contributed to her political sympathies and also was reflected in her art pieces. ...

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Under the guidance of Norodom Sihanouk, the head of the country during the decade, the number of public schools nearly doubled.15 Sihanouk also established compulsory education for children and universities for native Cambodians. ... My sons had a green thumb, so the Khmer Rouge told them to plant rice," instead of attend school. 19 Chanrinthy Him, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, wrote after the genocide that "it [had] been six years since I attended formal school. ...

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Adolf Hitler was born and reared in Germany. He was just like any other man, de-voted to his country. Hitler served as a soldier and a statesman. He gained the trust of mil-lions that fought and died in his name. We must understand how he gained and abused power. We must know the life and impact of...

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As the son of Emperor Taisho and Crown Prince, Hirohito found comforts in the studies of science, mathematics, ethics, geography, and literature often studying in his native Japanese as well as Chinese. ... Reports surfaced that his son, Chang Hsueh-Liang, had attempted to arise anti-Japanese sentiment throughout Manchuria and Japanese military forces saw an opportunity. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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