100 years of beauty in 70 seconds
Time lapse of models getting their hair and makeup done to match every decade from 1910 to 2010. Continue reading Post ID 41526
Time lapse of models getting their hair and makeup done to match every decade from 1910 to 2010. Continue reading → Post ID 41526
Stuff Mom Never told you . . . .
Women had just won the right to vote, and the Flapper hit the scene–visiting speakeasies and smoking in public… and…. and……
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This is the first in a series of posts referring to the era commonly known as “vintage“. These posts will cover the styles, fashions, fads, and music of the time periods ranging from 1920s to the 1950s.
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CAVEAT – Like many aspects of history, different historical sources provide different and often opposing view points. Use SOAPSTONE to analysis primary and secondary sources.
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The numbers reveal the horror of the Great War: Sixty-five million soldiers fought. Nine million killed in combat. Nearly 20 million wounded. 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the conflict that reshaped Europe, redefined international power structures, introduced the U.S. as a global superpower and fundamentally changed the role government played in people’s everyday lives.
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Reconstruction of destroyed facesWounded tommies (soldiers) facetiously called it “The Tin Noses Shop.” Located within the 3rd London General Hospital, its proper name was the “Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department”.
After WWI, the following empires no longer had the power and influence as they had before.
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Chiang Kai-shek (born October 31, 1887, Chekiang province, China—died April 5, 1975, Taipei, Taiwan), soldier and statesman, head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949, and subsequently head of the Chinese Nationalist government in exile on Taiwan.
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Sun Yat-sen is known as the ‘father of modern China’. He spent his adult life fighting against imperial China and the ruling Qing dynasty.
First as revolutionary leader and later as politician. His military and political work laid the groundwork from which his successors would later call out the People’s Republic of China.
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7.4
1. STOCK MARKET CRASH 2. GREAT DEPRESSION 3. NEW DEAL 4. KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS 5. 5 YEAR PLAN
6. COLLECTIVE FARMING 7. HOLODOMOR. 8. FASCIST CORPORATIST ECONOMY
7.5
1. LEAGUE OF NATIONS 2. MANDATES 3. MANCHUKUO 4. CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE 5. INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
6. BALFOUR DECLARATION 7. RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR 8. CHINESE CIVIL WAR 9. FASCISM 10. NAZI GERMANY
7.6
1. TOTALITARIANISM 2. MILITARISM 3. TREATY OF VERSAILLES 4. MUNICH AGREEMENT 5. APPEASEMENT
6. SPANISH CIVIL WAR 7. LEAGUE OF NATIONS 8. INVASIONS OF POLAND 9. SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR 10. SECOND ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR
“He got wounded 21 times and what he did was stop the Germans from getting through the French line,” Herman Johnson (son of Henry Johnson)
Sgt. Henry Johnson was the first American soldier in World War I to receive the Croix de Guerre with star and Gold Palm from the French government.…
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“We were deep in the brush and we couldn’t see the Germans and they couldn’t see us. But we could hear their machine guns shooting something awful.”
He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
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Time lapse of models getting their hair and makeup done to match every decade from 1910 to 2010. Continue reading → Post ID 41526
You DO NOT have to know any dates for AP World Modern. BUT, Ben Freeman would argue knowing certain major events can give you an idea of the major themes and flow of the course.
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