... in barracks, while demand for equipment completely exceeded supply. In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. It may therefore ... King and Country, together with drama and bands that took place behind the lines. Letters from the front were received regularly, the hobby of writing relieving the boredom felt in many of the quieter parts of the line,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in 1816 and decided to bring a taste of the wonderful music he had heard home. He brought more than a taste. Raffles brought home two entire gamelan sets (just instruments) to Buckinghamshire, England. One was given to the Verney family to be put on display at the Clayden House, and the other was given to the British Museum's Department of Ethnology. Even though the west now had the capability of making ... in Amsterdam. America's first introduction to gamelan took place in 1883 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This ensemble actually left their instruments to be kept at the Field...

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... wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of generations to come." (1) This statement falls ... the Jewish undermining of Germany's home front, France would have lost the Great War. Hitler was determined for this outcome to change in the next war, and for that he would woo the British, and less importantly the Italians, into alliances with Germany. As had already been noted Hitler respected the British for their cou...

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• Grade Level: High School