... need to abolish such weapons, an even greater argument can be made after examining the effects and dangers. Biological agents are contaminating microbes or toxins used to inflict illness or death in people, animals, and plants. Biological weapons depend upon the ability of the microorganisms to infect and grow in the infected organism. Biological agents can be distributed as an ... paralytic illness. Classic symptoms include double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, dry mouth and muscle weakness. Plague is the lethal bacterial disease that ...

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... wasn't gonna be spared any mercy (Stalin wasn't known as to look after his own people and now war prisoners under Stalins care). The German war prisoners were compelled on death marches or they were put to work on repairing/rebuilding Stalingrad, most or many of them weakened by starvation, illness and wounds, 75,000 German prisoners of war perished inside ... three months of their initial surrender. In an attempt to cut the death rates that were talking up, the Soviets left alone the death march and left the rest of the war prisoners on transports, however this did nothing in helping a...

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... party in Russia around the early 1900s. The goal of the Bolshevik party was to overthrow the Provisional Government after Czar Nicholas II was dethroned and create a proletariat government. The death of over 11 million Russian Citizens caused by the Czar not pulling troops out of WWI due to them not being prepared set the stage for a revolution to spark. With ... , citizens speaking of revolution, and anyone deemed unfit in the governments eyes would disappear, being either executed or sent to work camps. This power in Russia goes until Stalins untimely death in the 1950s. Of the 1,966 d...

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... Russia, though had Stalin not been a member of the Bolshevik central committee, had Russia not been in economic depression, had it not been for World War I, or Lenin's illness and death, Stalin would not have been successful. He was underestimated by his opposition, who were not united against him and he had the support of the working class of Russia, all ... great friends. However, Lenin saw that Stalin was not the best thing for Russia and, in late 1922, wrote his last testament, to be read on the event of his death. Lenin suffered three more strokes and passed away on Jan 21, 1924. T...

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... dwarfs. When experimenting with freezing, doctors submerged the bodies into vats of freezing cold water; they tested how long it took and how low the body temperature could get before death. After a victim had died they tried to resuscitate the frozen body. Dr. Joseph Mengele, who was in charge of the twin experiments, was known as the " Angel of ... Death." Mengele examined the twins from head to toe. After all of the information was obtained they were given an injection of chloroform in the heart killing them. Their dead bodies ... Against Humanity, and Count Four- Membership in a C...

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... communists then targeted the Russian Orthodox Church. They seized most religious properties and turned them into offices and museums. Priests and other religious leaders were all killed or tortured to death in prison camps. Stalin was a ruthless man. His dictatorship led to many violations of human rights. Lenin had started the slave labor camp, but Stalin expanded it literally by a lot ... . After Stalin took charge, the death rate was extraordinary. Stalin knew that his policies would cause starvation, but he did nothing about it. Instead, he turned it into a political weapon by delibe...

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... . There were people in our world history that aspired greatness by intimidating and scaring people into following them. One prime example is Joseph Stalin. Stalin used any means necessary, including death, to achieve his goals of becoming a leader. Joseph Stalin considered himself God, and believed that all the people were inferior to him, just as God himself is reflected in "The ... that he believed was a threat to his "throne." He brainwashed the uneducated and poor masses into believing every thing he said. His word was law. Every infraction was punishable by death or concentration ca...

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... of Pearl Harbor. They fought to repress Hitler's ideology, preserving their own ideas of democracy, capitalism, and equality for all. Even though the war ended in 1945 shortly following the death of Hitler, the marks that the War had left on the continent and the world, both physical and metaphorical, were still fresh at the time that Vaughan Williams was composing ... by patriotism, and the chaotic compound second half represents the later stages of the war, when everyone was desperately waiting for the end, which remained out of sight as the death toll skyrocketed. World War II was pa...

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... Northern and in Southern Europe, but also in Canada, Japan and the United States. The health impact of the Chernobyl accident can be described in terms of acute health effects (death, severe health impairment), late health effects (cancers) and psychological effects liable to affect health. The acute health effects occurred among the plant personnel and the persons who intervened in the ... (216 per sq mi). The most notable recent demographic trend has been a decline in population "with an estimated loss of nearly 1.2 million between 1990 and 1997 "due to death rates exceeding birth rat...

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... about 450km in circumference. By this time, winter had begun. General Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th army, was surrounded by Soviet troops; and his army was slowly starving to death. Hitler ordered him not to surrender, and sent in a panzer division on a rescue mission that failed. He then proceeded into to airlifting supplies to the surrounded troops. These drops were ... had no idea what was going on in Stalingrad, they weren't told about the defeats, only the victories. On Christmas Eve, when the 6th army was slowly being starved to death, a fake radio broadcast from the hear...

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Following the death of Lenin in January 1924, the Bolshevik Party was left without its Messiah. Trotsky, Lenin's brilliant accomplice and civil war hero, seemed the natural replacement. Yet, Stalin, an uninspirational bureaucrat ... power was further enhanced during the "Lenin Enrolment" (1924- 26) when the party bureaucracy gained 300,000 new members, all appointed by the Secretariat under Stalin's control. Thus by Lenin's death, and more so by 1926, Stalin had huge support and loyalty in the party. The huge increase in the size of the Bolshevik Party also changed its character, from an ......

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... taking them out of power, the true Germans can rule with more strength. With this, horrid blood shed began. Being of the Jewish faith automatically marked you for death. No reasoning, no argument, just death. The cold war, unlike the other two world wars, was more politically motivated. The United States and the Soviet Union were going back to back in a continuous ... ...

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... . Old Major was the idealist who dreamed up a wonderful government where animals were equal and the humans must be pushed out. Although his dream never became reality due to his death. Then there was Mr. Jones the farmer who ran Manor Farm. Jones was a drunk who never really paid any attention to the animals and was very unkind to them. He ... the Soviet Union under Communist rule. The revolution started and ended by the animals correspond to the Russian Revolution in that to much power will lead to corruption and the death of many leaders. ...

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... be those that the government inculcated in them, through propaganda and peer pressure. One event that had a great influence in Huxley was his mom's death. She died from cancer when he was 14 years old. His mother's death made him aware of the transience of the happiness of humans. Huxley was a special child, intelligent, alert. He valued his uniqueness as much as ... ...

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... are all gone. Only 420 feet of the Berlin Wall remain mainly in the Bernauer Strasse in the city's Wedding district as a tourist attraction. It was once known as the "death strip," the Bernauer Strasse is where East Germans made dramatic leaps to freedom from upper story windows and where the largest number died attempting to escape. Erected in 1961, the ... ...

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Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was a Russian political leader, who was the acknowledged leader of the USSR from 1929 until his death in 1953. Stalin helped to covert communism in the USSR from a free revolutionary movement into a severe, bureaucratic governmental system. He helped to turn Russia into a great industrial nation, to defeat ... Hitler in World War II. After the war he also established communist regimes through Eastern Europe. However he reigned terror and was responsible for the death and deprivation of millions of people. Stalin still remains the least known of the towering figures...

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... have complete control and do not allow people freely to oppose them. Joseph Stalin, infamous for his campaigns of terror, was totalitarian dictator of the USSR from 1941 until his death is 1953. Stalin's policy of state-organized industrialization turned his country into a powerful industrial and military power. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions ... the civil war, Stalin threw himself into organizational work and administrative tasks. Stalin gained a lot of control when he was elected secretary of the communist party in 1922. Befo...

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... was not his first language but georgian. In 1989, his dad took him away from the seminar and made him work in the factory. A couple of years after his dad's death in 1890, he became a student at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, where he got a strict discipline. There, he initiates himself in secret, to the revolutionary and Marxism ideas. However, he will ... of the communist party, a post which was not considered particularly significant at the time but nevertheless became the base from which he launched his bid for supreme power. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin promoted himself as...

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... miscellaneous prose pieces, drama, and a ballet. Cummings reached the height of his popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, giving poetry readings to college audiences across the United States until his death in 1962. All of Cummings's poetry attests to the author's never ending search for fresh metaphors and new means of expression through creative placement of words on the page, new ... repeated in is 5 (1926), in which the author also included satiric and anti-war pieces, notably "my sweet old etcetera" and "i sing of Olaf glad and big," a poem about the death of a conscientious objec...

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... --the Great Leap Forward, was an unthinkable and indisputable man-made horror in 20th century. When I face the number of death as large as 30,000,000, when I think of the countryside littered with the bodies of peasants who had starved to death, I couldn't help asking myself why this world's last big famine happened, why it lasted three years, and who should ... ...

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... also a topic of conversation at the Legislative Commission. In Catherine's "Instructions" she had stated that she was the only one allowed to deem the death penalty as punishment to any offender.[9] The idea of abolishing the death penalty led to the belief that criminals would no longer fear the consequences of committing crimes. When criminals do not see "murder punished by torture ... ...

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... provincial capitol, there must be one major school, consisting of four grades and, in every provincial and district town, one minor school with two grades. " almost two centuries after her death she still enjoys immense recognition as celebrity, superstar and sex symbol-reputations that show no sign of flagging" (Alexander vii). During Catherine's reign Russia also achieved great military success and ... became the granary of Europe. Catherine expanded the Russian empire by some 200,00 square miles, bringing a large part of that area under Russian rule. By the time of Catherine's death ...

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... was a famine from 1932-1933. In conclusion, we can say that Stalin's policies did make Russia a very successful industrial country. However, they were responsible for the death of millions of people. Collectivisation caused the death of thousands of Kulaks and left many homeless and starving. One million people were executed during the purges, two million people died in camps, one million people ... ...

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... a vital role, in the shaping of Russian history, and despite the ban on factionalism party debates continued to separate the party. Whilst it was kept under control be Lenin, his death, created a power struggle, whereby its results ultimately shaped Russian history. Stalin, "the grey blur" Sukhanov, was able to remove his political opponents by taking control of the rank and file ... ...

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... ;Nuclear build up lead to a "balance of terror" ." When bombs were launched they destroyed cities from big to small. Left people with severe injuries and even sudden death. When Cuba went to war, President Kennedy and the government of the soviet union, decided to help Cuba by sending them weapons only for defense purposes incase the U.S.A decided to ... ...

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