... Muller to take in a certain proposal regarding oil supplies. As Tintin unravels the true nature of Dr. Muller, news broke that the Emir's son Prince Abdullah has been kidnapped. Tintin doubtful about Dr. Muller outwits him by the help of an old friend, the Portuguese merchant Oliveria de Figueria and ... Caption Haddock who reaches with the Emir's soldiers just in time to recover the prince. Muller is imprisoned and held guilty for damaging the oil supplies by a chemical called formula fourteen, that has caused all the explosions. Thomson twins ... the King of Iraq, Faisal II who became ...

• Word Count: 1962
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... promise and lives and works for the people. ("Her Majesty the Queen" 1-8) In November of 1927, Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, now the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Both were distant cousins yet that is something we need not get into. They had four children each named respectively Charles (the ... Prince of Wales), Anne (the Princess Royal), Andrew (the Duke of York), and Edward (the Earl of Wessex). Elizabeth II was a very loving ... As time continued, her feelings of anxiety overcame her when the Falklands War, provoked by the Argentine annexation of the Britain's South Atlant...

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... on April 29, 1901 in Tokyo. He was the eldest son of Yoshihito. In 1912, Yoshihito became emperor of Japan making Hirohito the new crown prince. Hirohito was educated at a palace school established to prepare the crown prince for his future responsibilities. After graduating in 1921, he took a six-month tour of Europe, becoming the first member of the Japanese imperial family ... ruled by coming of age with a new Japan. The author takes the reader from Hirohito's birth to his death. The book contains numerous stories of Hirohito's rise from a shy young prince, to a god-king emperor on a...

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... with a lust for revenge. Before they entered the city, the Japanese troops were given a secret message that contained the orders "Secret, to be destroyed" and "KILL ALL CAPTIVES". The Prince of Japan, Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, sealed this message and gave royal credence to the slaughter of many Chinese. The slaughtering of the Chinese coincided with the predominant Japanese militarists views of Chinese ... ...

• Word Count: 1855
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... Harbor, the image switched to an enemy that was quite a formidable opponent. Underestimation of Japanese troops was a major factor in the sinking of the great ships, the Repulse and the Prince of Wales. Military commentator Fletcher Pratt describe the Japanese as having "defects of the tubes of the inner ear . . . are generally myopic." One of the more famous examples of racism ... ...

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... Tobacco Co. Separate from the price and where the tobacco comes from the ad reads: "Tobacco and Warfare - When the fighting in France was at its worst, the German Crown Prince asked his home people to send the men at the front all the smoking tobacco they could. Says he: "It is their greatest comfort." Poor chaps, I hope most of the ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... War I. The area was placed under a British Mandate by the League of Nations (Harris 1). In 1921, Iraq became a separate nation under British control (Baram 1, Farouk-Slugett 11-12). An Arab, Prince Faysal ibn Husayn of the Hashimite house of Hijas, was elected king and coronated August 1921 as King Faysal I (Baram 1). Upon entry into the League of Nations, Iraq became an ... ...

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... side. As long as their public is focused on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict they won't complain about the increasing poverty and miserably bleak outlook for Iran's youth, or how the prince of Saudi Arabia has built himself his eighth palace at a cost of $350 million dollars while many in his country are poor. Under closer scrutiny many Middle East nations have ... ...

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... groups are represented here, and they have proven that they can work, live and prosper together, all under the roof of one county," said George A. Cooley II, marketing manager for Prince George's County's Conference & Visitors Bureau. These people learned to appreciate other people's religions. All the different religions and cultures that make up this country is what make it so great ... ...

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... the conveniences of arms, became private citizens after having been dukes. For, among the other bad effects it causes, being disarmed makes you despised; this is one of these infamies a prince should guard himself against as will be treated below: for between an armed and unarmed man there is no comparison whatsoever, and it is not reasonable for an armed man ... ...

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... (gunpowder) to propel a metal ball. Therefore, there were no important development in rocket technology and no use of rockets on battlefields until the 18th century. In this century, Hyder Ali, a prince in India, developed war rockets with some important changes and used them with considerable effect against British (Britannica.com, 2000). When this effective use of rockets was heard in Europe ... ...

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... 's 60,000 battle force were killed, and probably another 20,000 wounded, the imperial family was mortified by the desertion of Lieutenant Higashikuni, the twenty-three-year-old son of Prince Higashikuni, during the fight, a matter suppressed by Japanese censors.13 Stalin was also happy to call it a day. Zhukov withdrew his force to the Manchurian border on 31 August 1939 ... ...

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... a controlling group or of an individual, and that power itself must be maintained foremost in any type of society or it is subject to collapse. "Nicolo Machiavelli contended in The Prince that rulers could maintain their power only by resorting to immoral tactics and strategies" (Magstadt 82). Even though power can be used for good it must always be in firm ... ...

• Word Count: 1873
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• Grade Level: High School