.... intentions,the story of disarmament between 1919 and the 1932 Disarmament Conference is a story of failure. Specific proposals contained too many flaws and nations took diametrically opposed positions on the entire issue.In some ways it could be argued that disarmament was and still isa logically impossible. The first step in disarmament after the war was the treatment meted out to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles.It was hoped that this would begin a general move towards disarmament.Article 8 of the League Covenant saw disarmament as a specific goal: The members of the League recognise that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armam .....

.... since 60,000 years ago. The Nile River is the world's longest river , it is approximately 4,160 miles long and flows from the highlands in Central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. It is the main reason why the Ancient Egyptians were such a successful people, the moisture from the river was the only thing keeping Egypt from change to a desert. Even back then, everybody knew that without the river they had no chance of survival. First of all the main food the Egyptians ate were bread made from the grain grown with the precious silt and water from the Nile River. Barges and boats made with papyrus reeds or wooden planks(used after 3,000BC) were filled with .....

.... to the environment. If they are used, they leave harmful waste for many years such as radiation or hazardous chemicals. He was also dumping oil from Kuwait into the Persian Gulf because he couldn’t sell it due to embargoes. This was an immediate threat to the environment. Hussein alone is a very dangerous man and one of the missions of the war was to kill him. However, we were unsuccessful, and today he is a huge threat. Hussein’s control of Kuwait affected the U.S. economically. All of Kuwait’s oil was in Hussein’s power and the U.S. was unable to trade with him because of sanctions. Therefore, oil based product prices raised 50 percent due to the lack .....

.... 2630 BC with the creation of the step pyramid. The Step Pyramid was designed for King Djoser ,of the 3rd dynasty, by his vizier, Imhotep. The pyramid is located in Saqqara, the main necropolis of Memphis. The Saqqara pyramid has a series of six levels of stone decreasing in size as they ascend to about 200 feet/60 meters in height. The Step Pyramid originally began as a mastaba, and it has been visualized as a series of mastaba shapes, decreasing in size, stacked one on top of another. The surface was originally encased in smooth white limestone which must have caught the sun light and reflected its rays. It has the distinction of being the site of the fi .....

.... of the ironclads the ships that are used in wars today are much safer. They are stronger and easier to maneuver. The first ironclad to ironclad battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor was long and drawn out. Although neither one emerged victorious, the world began to see what a major improvement in warfare these ironclads were. A reporter from the Norfolk Day wrote: “This work will create a revolution in naval warfare. Americas improvement has impacted naval history in a way that no other invention ever has!” (Davis,135) Many times in United States history the major nations of the world, such as England, France and Germany, have ignored the United States in .....

.... how some very powerful leaders can act so cruelly and kill thousands of innocent people just because of their ethnicity, race or religion. The political leaders who committed do not seem very smart to me because strong and powerful countries do not differentiate between colour and religion. Equality is the most important aspect leading to a united, strong country despite the different races or religions in that country. Instead of killing, chasing and dividing up their countries, these leaders should have created a powerful and united country. To fully understand , one must first try to define it. is “the effort to destroy the essential foundations of the li .....

.... privilege to settle and govern an English colony in the Massachusetts Bay area of North America. In 1630 John Winthrop, a lawyer, directed one thousand English colonists to Massachusetts Bay. "The Church of England had been established a century before John Winthrop and the other colonists arrived at Massachusetts Bay. In 1531, King Henry VIII had the English Parliament declare that the king, not the Pope, was the head of the church in England."1 With that statement, the religious movement called "The Reformation" began to spread across northern Europe. The Reformation led to the formation of a religious group called Protestants. In the decade that followed, ma .....

.... an adult. From 1775 to1792 Goya paints cartoons for a royal tapestry factory, beginning his first genre paintings of everyday life. Later Goya achieves his first successful movement. He became a portrait painter for the Spanish aristocracy. He finally enrolled in the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1780, Francisco and was named painter to King Charles IV in 1786,and Court Painter in 1789. In 1792 he suffered from a serious illness which left him permanently deaf. This began to make him feel alienated and separated from everyone else, provoking him to paint the darkness and weakness of mankind. He began to paint his own version of caricatures, .....