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AP 24.1256 Fighting Poverty and Diseases – India (Challenges of Sanitation)
Manual scavenging — the removal of human waste from sites with no flush system
Life expectancy is low, with many developing asthma, skin infections and tuberculosis
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AP 24.1092 How long does it take to count to a MILLION?
Reflect on the significance of this number when you run across it in your readings…
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AP 24.766 Society and the Industrial Age – The Suffragettes
suf·fra·gette – noun
a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.Continue reading Post ID 30521
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AP 23.668 Simón Bolívar
Born in 1783, Simon Bolivar grew to become known as the George Washington of South America.
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AP 23.654 How did Napoleon influence the way you eat?
How different would life be without this invention? Nowadays, canned food is everywhere — but how did this industry begin? Tune in to learn how Nicholas Appert discovered the principles used in canning food — and why we have Napoleon to thank for this Stuff of Genius.
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AP 23.653 Napoleon – Have any money? Buy a hat.
Posted November 16, 2014Napoleon’s hat sells for $2.4 million at auction
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AP 23.620 USA – Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
Once the movement for Independence was set in motion, England came to reassert its control on the North American colonies. There was no turning back…. it was too late to apologize.
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AP 23.619 USA – So What Was 1776?
Was it one or more of the following?
A Revolt?
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AP 23.340 Russia – Peter the Great (Czar or Tsar)
Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th century, who is best known for his extensive reforms in an attempt to establish Russia as a great nation.
It is said that Peter the Great grabbed Russia kicking and screaming out of the Middle Ages. Continue reading Post ID 30521
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AP 23.327 Absolutism – France (Versailles)
Before the French Revolution
Illustrative Example (p 70) – Arts and Monumental Architecture: (European palaces such as Versailles)
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AP 23.319 Mughal Empire – Taj Mahal
Originally built by Emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb his wife, the Taj Mahal remains an architectural marvel of the modern world.
Illustrative Example (p 70) – Arts and Monumental Architecture: (Mughal mausolea and mosques)
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AP 23.280 The Black Death – Ring around the Rosie
Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme called Ring Around the Rosie?
“Ring around the Rosie. Pocket full of poesy. Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down.”
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AP 23.202 Hundred Years War (1337 to 1453)
The name the Hundred Years’ War has been used by historians since the beginning of the nineteenth century to describe the long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England against each other from 1337 to 1453.Continue reading Post ID 30521
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AP 23.183 Medieval Europe – What are Guilds?
A guild is an association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town.
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AP 23.78 Islam – Muslim Achievements: Robotics in Islam
Al-Jazarī (1136-1206), was a prominent medieval polymath: an scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Diyarbakır, Turkey, who lived during the Middle Ages.
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