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Who are some famous retired Marine generals?

“Chesty” Puller may be the most famous retired Marine Corps General. There are a number of autobiographies about Puller. Puller is also portrayed in the H.B.O. show “The Pacific.” He rose from the rank of Private to General during his career in the Marine Corps. Puller retired as one of the most decorated Marines is history. He was the recipient of five Navy Cross citations and a Distinguished Service citation.\nJerome “Gary” Cooper served as a Major General from 1988 to 1989. Cooper initially retired from the Marine Corps as a Major in 1970. He is one of the most decorated African..

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What are some interesting facts about Queen Hatshepsut?

Hatshepsut means "foremost of noble women," while Ma'at translates to "order or balance," and ka-Ra means "the spirit of the sun god Ra." Hatshepsut married her half-brother, Thutmose II, after her father died when she was 12 years old. When her husband died, she became the regent for the infant Thutmose III, Thutmose's heir by a concubine. Hatshepsut, for unknown reasons, claimed power and declared herself pharaoh. She often dressed in male garb, and art from the time depicts her as a man with a beard. Egypt was prosperous under Hatshepsut, who built many obelisks and the Djeser-dje..

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How many casualties were in World War 1?

There were about 65 million total mobilized forces on both sides of World War I. To put casualty number in perspective, an estimated 57.5 percent of total mobilized forces were considered casualties by the end of the war. It was the third-deadliest war in United States history, trailing behind only World War II and the American Civil War. The country with most casualties was Russia, with 9.1 million killed, wounded or missing in action.

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Who was the prime minister of Canada during World War I?

Robert Borden was the third Canadian prime minister from Nova Scotia. He started work as a teacher in New Jersey before returning to Canada in 1874 to study law. He became senior partner in his law firm when he was only 35. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1896, made leader of the Conservative Party in 1901 and appointed Prime Minister in 1911. During World War I, he helped transform the Canadian government into a wartime administration via the War Measures Act of 1914.

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What were some of Srinivasa Ramanujan's contributions?

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in Tamil Nadu, India, in 1887. When he was 15, he obtained a copy of the second volume of "Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics" by George Shoobridge. Much of the material in the book was out of date, but nevertheless it spurred Ramanujan to delve into the subject and formulate his own theories.He studied in Cambridge, England, under Godfrey Hardy, after beginning a correspondence with him by mail. It was in England that he made significant progress in the partition of numbers. Partition of a number is a way of writing a number as a sum of..

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How did foot binding work?

Foot binding is the Chinese custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further foot growth. The practice possibly originated among upper-class court dancers during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Imperial China in the 10th or 11th century but spread in the Song Dynasty. Foot binding eventually became common among all but the lowest classes as a means of displaying status. Chinese women from wealthy families who did not need to work could afford to have their feet bound. Foot binding was also adopted as a symbol of beauty in Chinese culture, a..

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What was Ferdinand Magellan's impact?

Magellan was born as minor nobility, exposing him to stories of exploration at the Portuguese court. After the Portuguese king denied support for his voyage to the Spice Islands, he eventually gained support from Spanish King Charles I. After a shipwreck, a mutiny and months of storms, the voyage finally traveled through the Strait of Magellan to its destination. Only one of the five ships that set sail returned to Spain, but the country received extremely valuable spices from the voyage.

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When was the Civil War fought?

The Civil War started when Confederate soldiers bombarded the Union-held Fort Sumter. The next morning Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. After the battle, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee seceded from the union to join the Confederate States. Despite a series of early victories, the Confederate army would come to lose much of the territory it gained by 1865. The war effectively ended on April 26 with a Union victory. However, fighting continued until the middle of May that same year.

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From where did the Titanic leave?

At the time of entering service, the Titanic was the largest passenger liner in the world. The sinking of the Titanic after colliding with an iceberg led to the death of more than 1,500 people. It is considered one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history. The naval architect of the ship, Thomas Andrew, lost his life in the sinking. The ship was owned by the White Star Line and was registered in the port of Liverpool.

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What did Adolf Hitler promise?

Beyond the fundamental promise of revoking the Treaty of Versailles, between the Great Depression's arrival in 1929 and his rise to the chancellery in 1933, Hitler made many promises to the German people and particular interest groups within the populace. To those anxious about an ascendant Soviet state under Josef Stalin, Hitler promised to oppose communism within Germany. This was especially appealing to a middle class hurting from the chaos of the depression-era Weimar Germany intent on maintaining law and order. Along with the revocation of Versailles, Hitler promised the upper class ..

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