.... were the official monetary authorities, they had little direct influence on monetary policy. Monetary policy was controlled by private banks, and so monetary policy reflected their market response to economic circumstances. Banks determined short-term interest rates through their competition for deposits and were key planners in the foreign exchange market during the early years of depression. The fact that Sir Robert Gibson was Chair of the Commonwealth Bank only added to the Governments predicament. Gibson's thoughts on economic policy were conservative, and under existing legislation, he was answerable to no one except the Bank Board, which he do .....

.... troops clashed in fearsome battle. Napoleon fought heroically and the British were driven out. As Napoleon's reward he was given a promotion to general and h is own infantry unit. Unfortunitly Napoleon ran into some bad luck, the leader of the French Revolution Maximilien Robespierre became power hungry and lost control. His own men mutinized against him and executed him. Bonapart was also captured and briefly imprisoned because he was a member of Robspierre's faction. Napoleon was freed just two months later.In 1795 a revolt began in Paris over a new constitution that was presented by the National Convention, the National Convention was name t .....

.... Minh to cut off their airway to Hanoi. After a siege that had lasted for fifty - five days, the French surrendered. Ho Chi Minh led the war against France and won. After the war there was a conference in Geneva where Vietnam was divided into two parts along the seventeenth parallel. North Vietnam was mainly Communist and supported Ho Chi Minh, while the south was supported by the United States and the French were based there. There was still some Communist rebels within South Vietnam. These were the Viet Cong. The South Vietnam ruler was Ngo Dinh Diem who was anti - Communist. At the conference, Laos and Cambodia became independent states. North Vie .....

.... descriptions of public and private hangings, the responsibilities of the hangman and the general reaction of the public, who were for and againts hangings. In the days of , gallows or scaffolds were rather crude contraptions. Early contraptions consisted of two post in the ground, with a cross-piece between them from which the victim swung. As the years passed by a second contraption was invented, a single stout post with a timber nailed at a right angle at the top, with supporting boards attached. A third contraption was made which was a platform erected nine or more feet from the ground, in the middle of which was a trap door which swung upon hin .....

.... with 54 electoral votes, you are talking about a lot of electoral votes! If you got 36% should you get about that much of the electoral votes, that would be close to 18 electoral votes you could have towards your victory, but instead you get NONE, nada ZIP! Perhaps revision is the answer to this problem or maybe it is just fine the way it is. After all it is a simple fool proof plan. YOU get none or you get all. It doesn't take a math whiz to figure that one out now does it. And with the people nowaday, we probably don't need anything oo complicated. But is it really fair? We are after all a DEMOCRATIC nation. Which means the powe .....

.... and cultural historians have dubbed the late 20th century as, “post Enlightenment�, we still walk around with a worldview largely based on, Enlightenment thought. So in the spirit of not dating the Enlightenment, simply refer to the changes, in European thought in the seventeenth century as "Seventeenth Century Enlightenment Thought." Although there were many philosopher and scientists engaged in the enlightenment period bringing new ways of thinking there are only a few that kick open the doors of this way of thinking. Decartes 1597-1650. He changed the way of thinking though the enlightenment period he replaced all other forms of knowledge .....

.... and the servants. "Never forget me. We will be together under one nation, the Confederate Nation. Our spirits will live on, bringing forth rights to rule as we please." Going off to war is a tough thing to do. I am forced to leave my family, horses, plantation, and slaves to fight for the pride. The proudest of keeping those elements intact. Keeping those in order is a war in itself. -Jonathan Cort Dear Journal, August 17, 1863 The war front is quite an unimaginable experience unless you go through it yourself. We have little rations of horrid food. Hard tack full of meal worms and chicory coffee. Our Mamie's collared greens is what .....

.... car. Three-out-of-four families owned one or more cars. With the assembly line they made a lot more cars in one day than they did before. Instead of paying for the cars with cash, people could now use credit to purchase items. Since most families didn't have the money, they would buy the car with credit and pay off the debt later. The thirties was a bad time for the automotive industry. By now Ford had made a Model-A and had three new colors: tan, purple and black. All of the companies were making more cars than they could sell. Nobody had enough money to buy a car because of all of the banks going under. Millions of people lost whole fortunes. Since .....

.... began not in camps or in the gas chambers, but with four small groups of murderers. Known as the Einsatzgruppen formed by Himmler an Heydrich immediately before the invasion of the Soviet Union. They operated in the territories captured by the German army during the invasion of the Soviet Union and, with the cooperation of German army units and local militias, murdered over a million men, women, and children. It was the story that did not end until 1952 when Otto Ohlendorf, the last surviving commander of an Einsatzgeuppe, climbed the steps of the gallows to pay for the 90,000 murders his command committed. There have been many genocides in hum .....

.... ranks. Until it became controllable no longer, and civil war broke out, luring the outer barbarians into the empire. Eventually leading up to the empires final collapse. Another factor that contributed to the downfall of the empire was the lack of technology. Cheap labour cased the empire not to want development. A reason for this being the insufficience of a deep education. For the schools at that time put a greater emphasis on reading and writing rather than on stimulating intellectual education. The third element resulting in the collapse of the Roman empire was the instability of succession for the throne. At times rulership was passed from fat .....