.... will most likely live from their car or move into one of the Hoovervilles. In this Hooverville they will live like many other families, in a house made from packing cases and corrugated iron. Disease is rife here and few are able to get medical help. There is however no shortage of water. When it rains it comes under the walls and through the roof drenching everything inside. News travels slowly amongst the poor, most people hear what is going on in the world by word of mouth. Or by reading a week old paper that they are using to stop their roof leaking. During the winters it is bitterly cold. Children search through junkyards fo .....

.... in US foreign policy, especially in the case of the US's war against the Filipinos. Carnegie taunted the advocates of President William McKinley's war policy by asking, "Is it possible that the American Republic is to be placed in the position of the suppressor of the Philippine struggle for independence?" He then went so far as to offer to buy the island nation from the US for $20 million in order to grant its citizens complete independence. His offer was refused. Carnegie's proclaimed regard for the betterment of man may have struck those familiar with his dealings with his own employees as rather out of character. As the foun .....

.... basic but integral principle which is important even today, and justified the independence movement for the newly formed United States of America. The preamble to the declaration established a small but vital principle that "whenever any form of government becomes destructive...it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." This principle has continued to be significant to the United States because it gives every citizen the right to question the government and to actually do something about it. The second part of the declaration consisted of a list of justifications for departing from the British Empire. Some ma .....

.... to the Union. Under this plan new governments were formed in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, but the Congress refused to recognize them. Republicans in Congress did not want a quick restoration, because it would bring Democratic representatives and senators to Washington. In 1864 Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill. This bill would have delayed the process of rejoining the Union until 50 percent of the people took an oath of loyalty. However Lincoln pocket vetoed the bill. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just as the South surrendered in April 1865, and then Andrew Johnson inherited the problem of . Johnson supported .....

.... responsibilities consist of administering and enforcing the federal laws relating tofirearms and explosives, and to alcohol and tobacco products. Since 1982, when the federal Anti-Arson Act was passed, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has also dealt with arson activities that were for profit. Right now the ATF operates on about $335 million per year, and employs about 4,100 people. The ATF is divided into two sections. The first is Regulatory Enforcement, and the second is Criminal Enforcement: 1) The Regulatory Enforcement section is liable for monitoring trade- practice .....

.... the time Jefferson was elected to the presidency in 1800 his party was called Democratic Republican. The Federalist Party disappeared as a political force by the 1820 election, mostly because of its opposition to the War of 1812. The fall of the Federalist Party left the country with only one major party, but only for a short time. During the 1820’s Democratic Republicans began to split into two parts. The conservatives of the party favored a strong nationalism, a protective tariff, and a national bank. They called themselves National Republicans. The others stood for states' rights, tariff for revenue only, and an independent .....

.... were then suspended. The sacred truce was to protect Games-goers from assault and lasted three months. The competitions were open only to honorable Greek men, and lasted five days. On the first day of the Games the athletes and the judges swore that they would compete and judge honestly. On the second, third, and fourth day the different contests were held. The main event at Olympia was the stadion or single-course race, and the winner of that race gave his name to the Olympiad. On the fifth day, at the conclusion of the Games, the victors were awarded a crown of wild olive leaves. The olive crown was the greatest honor for th .....

.... Frankfurt in the hopes of creating a more united country. 1871 Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck realized his dream of a united Germany as the German Empire was founded. 1918-1919 Germany was forced to accept harsh terms under the Treaty of Versailles that brought an end to World War I. The Weimar Republic was founded. 1933 Adolf Hitler and the Nazis assumed power. 1939 Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. 1945 Allied armies occupied Germany and divided it into four zones of occupation. Nazi war criminals were tried at Nürnberg. 1949 Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany. Berlin, in .....

.... in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. The earliest European guitars did have four courses of gut strings. A 2 course is a pair of strings tuned in unison. These early guitars were distinguished from lutes by body sides that curved inward to form a waist and by four courses of strings. Some but not all early guitars had a flat back, while lutes always had a flat back. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance the lute was the dominant fretted instrument. The lute with was pear-shaped and had five or more courses of strings was ge .....

.... entitled Singapore Sue. Grant then traveled to Los Angeles, where he made a successful screen test for Paramount. The studio offered him a five-year contract, suggesting he change his name to Cary Lockwood; Leach negotiated with them, and they settled on the name Cary Grant. Grant's feature debut was in This Is the Night in 1932. He soon found himself playing opposite such top Paramount female stars as Nancy Carroll, Sylvia Sidney, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West . In 1935 Grant appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett. When his Paramount contract expired in 1937, Grant chose not to sign with ano .....