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Who was Agent 355 in the Revolutionary War?

Historians believe this woman was a member of a wealthy Loyalist family, which gave her access to the kind of insider information that could help General Washington defeat the British troops. She aided in exposing Benedict Arnold as a traitor, and her insider intelligence helped lead to the arrest of England’s head intelligence officer.Agent 355 was captured in October 1780, according to the National Women’s History Museum. She was pregnant at the time of her arrest and gave birth to a son while held captive on a prison ship. It is believed that she died shortly after this, keeping her ide..

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What is the summary of the Navajo origin legend?

Like the creation story of the Bible, numbers play an integral role. The number four in particular, a prevalent number to the Navajo nation, is a recurring theme in the Navajo story of origin. There are four worlds in the story. In the first world, there are four oceans ruled by four creatures and four clouds in the sky. In the third world, there are four gods and five sets of twins born in four day increments. Each set of twins is given to one of the gods to become the ancestors of each of the four Navajo clans. There are some marked similarities of the Navajo creation story to that of the cr..

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What year did Hawaii become a state?

In 1894, the Republic of Hawaii became a U.S. protectorate. Officially annexed in 1898 when the United States began to understand how important its location was to the United States in terms of military strategy, Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900. The bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the United States into World War II. The United States approved Hawaii as a state in March of 1959, and the people of Hawaii voted to accept statehood in June of that same year.

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What did Hitler call the Jews?

Hitler also used symbolism to target the Jews. Early on, shops owned by Jews were required to display a yellow Star of David or the word "Juden" on windows and doors; later, the Jews were required to sew a similar star to all their clothing. According to the History Learning Site, these anti-Jewish laws made it easier for anti-Semites to target Jewish people on Kristallnacht, when Jewish shops and homes were vandalized or burned, and later to locate Jews for imprisonment in concentration camps.

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What was Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850?

Neither side was completely satisfied in this compromise, and it did not ultimately succeed in keeping the nation from splitting apart. The Compromise of 1850 paid Texas $10 million in exchange for losing the border dispute with New Mexico, and it banned slave trade in the nation's capital city of Washington, D.C., though owning slaves was legal there. One of the greatest victories for the South and defeats for the North was the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Act as part of the Compromise. The Fugitive Slave Act stated that warrants were to be issued for runaway slaves and that Northerne..

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How did Hitler get people to follow him?

An enormous part of Hitler's appeal was his selection of scapegoats. His first scapegoats were the nations that had punished Germany after World War I. According to The Holocaust Explained, “Hitler used his skills of oratory to appeal to the patriotism of the German people by promising to break free of the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles.” Hitler vowed to return Germany to its former glory and to deliver it from the clutches of the Great Depression which had ravaged the country with famine and unemployment. Hitler also used Jews as scapegoats, attacking them in fiery speeches..

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What was the U.S. population in 2007?

These figures are only estimates, as the U.S. Census Bureau only conducts the census every 10 years. The Bureau conducted the most recent censuses in 2010 and 2000. At the time of the 2000 census, the United States had an exact population of 281,421,906. By the time of the 2010 census, the U.S. population had grown to 308,745,538.\nAs of October 2015, the most recent estimates place the U.S. population at approximately 321.86 million.

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What is Spartacus' real name?

Historical evidence suggests that early on in his life, Spartacus may have been in the Roman army. At some point in his life, he was enslaved and sold to a gladiatorial training school in Capua, north of Naples. He escaped from this school with 78 other slaves around 73 B.C. and took refuge near Mount Vesuvius, where other escaped slaves began to join him. The numbers grew until an army of 90,000 to 100,000 runaway slaves, led by Spartacus, began a revolt known also as the Third Servile War. This army was eventually defeated by the Roman politician and general Crassus.

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Who invented the first glider?

George Cayley is also credited with the first man-carrying glider flight in 1853, when his coachmen flew his glider across Brompton Dale in England. This event happened 50 years prior to the Wright Brothers and their first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. The hot air balloon made it into the air before the glider, the first manned flight happening on Nov. 21, 1783.

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What is the Kickapoo tribe?

The Kickapoo tribes that live in the United States have reservations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The Mexican tribe members live in two villages. The Kickapoo had their own language, which is still spoken today in Mexico and by the tribe located in Oklahoma.\nDue to British and American encroachment upon their lands, the Kickapoo tribe resettled in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Eventually the American government forced the tribe onto reservations.

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