Mythology. Voices for Justice. History. Magician's assistant. ...I did find fault with the term "assistant" because it sounds like someone rolling props on and off stage when many of us were highly trained actors and dancers.[1]
Impalement arts. Impalement arts are a type of performing art in which a performer plays the role of human target for a fellow performer who demonstrates accuracy skills in disciplines such as knife throwing and archery.
Metropolitan Police Service. The Metropolitan Police Service (abbreviated to MPS and widely known informally as "the Met") is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.[8] The Met also has significant national responsibilities such as co-ordinating and leading on counter-terrorism matters and protection of the British Royal Family and senior figures of Her Majesty's Government.[9] As of October 2011, the Met employed 48,661 full-time personnel.
This included 31,478 sworn police officers, 13,350 non-police staff, and 3,831 non-sworn police community support officers. New Orleans Police Department. The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has primary responsibility for law enforcement in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The department's jurisdiction covers all of Orleans Parish, while the city is divided into eight police districts. On May 11, 2010, Ronal W. Police. Policing in the Nineteenth Century Chicago elected its first constable in 1828, and Cook County its first sheriff in 1831, but these law enforcers worked part-time and did not patrol.
Citizens victimized by criminals applied to a judge for a warrant, and the constable or sheriff “executed” the warrant, earning a fee. A night watch, of doubtful efficiency, was employed in 1839, to watch for fires, criminals, and drunks. A salaried city marshal was also authorized, to coordinate these disparate officials. Nine day police, added in 1853, managed traffic at depots and bridges. Moskos_2008_two-shades-blue. Peloponnesian War. The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Nelson Mandela. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla] ; born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Southern African Names. Nelson Mandela. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/;[4] Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893. The Great Oklahoma Land Rush of At precisely twelve noon on September 16, 1893 a cannon's boom unleashed the largest land rush America ever saw.
Carried by all kinds of transportation - horses, wagons, trains, bicycles or on foot - an estimated 100,000 raced to claim plots of land in an area of land in northern Oklahoma Territory known as the Cherokee Strip. There had been a number of previous land rushes in the Territory - but this was the big one. In 1828 Congress designated the land that would become Oklahoma as Indian Territory. Manifest Destiny. Library of Congress In the 1850s trains were leaving Washington for the West twice daily.
Expansion westward seemed perfectly natural to many Americans in the mid-nineteenth century. Like the Massachusetts Puritans who hoped to build a "city upon a hill, "courageous pioneers believed that America had a divine obligation to stretch the boundaries of their noble republic to the Pacific Ocean. Reasons For Expansion 8b. Five Civilized Tribes. Gallery of the Five Civilized Tribes. The portraits were drawn or painted between 1775 and 1850. The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole—that were considered civilized by Anglo-European settlers during the colonial and early federal period because they adopted many of the colonists' customs and had generally good relations with their neighbors.
History[edit] George Washington and Henry Knox proposed cultural transformation for Native Americans; the Cherokee and Choctaw were successful at integrating aspects of European-American culture which they found useful.[1] Transportation Revolution. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3. Whose land is it? Has the federal government become so arrogant as to claim ownership of the land over which it has jurisdiction? Put differently, does the United States of America exist to protect and defend the property of each individual living within its borders, or to own and control that property itself? This is not a theoretical question reserved for intellectual banter. It is a real question pondered often, especially by those in western states, where the majority of land is owned and regulated by the federal government.
Santa Fe Trail. The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial and military highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880. Traveling on an Emigrant Train, 1879. Traveling on an Emigrant Train, 1879 It was 1879 and twenty-eight-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson - future author of the novels Kidnapped and Treasure Island - was in love. Her name was Fanny Osborne. She was an American, ten years his senior and married to another man. The two had met in France three years earlier and Stevenson had fallen hopelessly in love. She returned to California and her husband, but in 1879, Stevenson received a cable from her that immediately set him off on a voyage to be by her side.
Stevenson's parents were not happy with his plans and refused to fund his journey - so the young author decided to travel to America as an emigrant. We join Stevenson's story after he has landed in New York City. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. NASA satellite image of Cimarron County, August 2008. Cimarron City, Oklahoma. Cimarron City is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States. Ten Most Beautiful Places in Oklahoma. The Mountain Fork River in Beavers Bend State Park offers incredible scenery like this area where the water cascades over the rocky river bottom. Black Mesa (Oklahoma) The plateau has been home to Plains Indians.[4] World's Columbian Exposition.
American exceptionalism. Alexis de Tocqueville.
British. The French Revolution. The War of 1812. Primary Source Documents. Dime novel. Sun Valley Elementary School: Boss of the Plains. In the 1840s, John Stetson was a hat maker. His family had been making hats for years. John lived in New Jersey. Boss of the Plains. The Parts of a Western Saddle. Adamsprinciples. Land of Nod. Hey Diddle Diddle. The King of the Cats. Black cat. Dormouse. Running amok. Pygmalion (mythology) Golem. Shibboleth. Shema. Sicilian Vespers. Sumerian Shakespeare. The Great Fatted Bull, translation of Tablet #36 in the Library of Congress. A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
Lagash.