... most everyday activities had to do with a manor or castle. By the time of the Renaissance, towns in southern Europe had grown greatly in size. The wealthy people who lived in Renaissance society had more spare time and money than in the Middle Ages. This meant they could spend more time studying new ideas and had more money to truly patronise the arts. The medieval view of the world was a look at the bad side of things: People thought of life as short and full of suffering. There was very little medieval art that didn't have a religious theme, and most art was made by hired artists for a church, to teach people abo ...

... of the Panama Canal. President Reagan finally decided to attack the rebels and wiped out their group. When asked about his actions he stated, "Today, we did what we had to do .... He counted on America to be passive, he counted wrong," It helped to earn him the nickname, Superman. Then, vice-president Bush, would soon have to face terrorists also. When Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, decided to invade his neighboring country of Kuwait. President Bush was called upon by Kuwait to help and the president answeredtheir call firmly. He told Saddam to pull out of Kuwait, when he was ignored, President Bush attacked. ...

... he was elected to the U.S. Senate.In 1953, he married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. In the general election on November 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in a very close race. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President and the first Catholic. Just after the election, the Kennedy's second child, John Jr., was born. Kennedy wanted Americans to travel to a more distant destination. In May 1961, after Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to fly into space, Kennedy asked Congress to spend more money on space exploration, with the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the de ...

... River. This is believed by some as his most fatal mistake. Today we know this colossal invasion as . Midsummer 1943, Nazi Germany was at its zenith. Their Blitzkrieg or “lightning war� tactics had given the control of all of the mainland Europe except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. At this time Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pushed US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to mount a force against the powerful Germans. Plans though always fell through due to lack of numbers and insufficient military craft. Britain however, began to conjure theoretical plans t ...

... political connections. In 1920, mobster Johnny Torrio had an inspiration. He discovered that there was big money to be made with an outlawed liquor business. He needed a lieutenant to run his business, and picked a 23-year-old bullheaded roughneck from Five Points Gang of New York to run his business, to go to Chicago and bootleg. He promised him half the profit for his work. was an excellent choice for Johnny Torrio. settled in Chicago, in small office. His business card stated, “Alfonso Capone, Secondhand Furniture Dealer�. Alfonso Capone had a great ability to handle the emergency situations. ...

... the Sosso in the battle of Kirina. Afterward, Sundiata established the empire of Mali. He converted to Islam for support of the Muslim peoples. When Mansa Musa came into power, in the early 1300s, the empire reached its height. Mansa Musa traveled through Cairo on his pilgrimage to Mecca. It is said that he gave away so much gold that it dropped in value in Cairo for 12 years. Afterward the empire slowly declined, until, in the 1600s it was no more than it had been originally when it originated: the small kingdom of Kangaba. Government The government of Mali was a dictatorship. The dictator, who had ...

... Aztec Empire. People say the empire was partially formed by a deeply believed legend. As the legend went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw while entering the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city aqueducts (piping) were constructed, bridges were built, and chinapas were made. Chinapas were little islands formed by pilled up mud. On these chinapas ...

... to develop grenades, trench mortars, flamethrowers, and heavy artillery. The British army first established the use of tanks, a new weapon in warfare. The Germans, in turn, developed new weapons to deal with the tanks which included field guns such as the German 77 mm and French 75 mm (Young World Book 369). A famous long range gun was called Big Bertha. This was also the first war in which cars and trucks were used to carry men and supplies to the front. World War I marked the beginning of chemical warfare in which clouds of poisonous mustard gas contributed to the casualties of the war (Stewart 8). Unl ...

... in progress been so graphically documented. Within a day, newspaper readers and theater audiences were confronted by fiery images of . Radio listeners heard the emotional words of newsman Herb Morrison, sobbing into his recorder, "It's burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. . . . Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!(Marben 58)" When this floating cathedral, called , burst into a geyser of flaming hydrogen there was a tremendous impact on the public, although two thirds of the people on board survived. Two theor ...

... inhabitants face a hot but temperate climate with more rain relative to the north. Inland temperatures are cooler with seldom snow. Tel Aviv is the largest city and the centre of industry. Jerusalem has been declared the capital but has not been recognised as such by the international community. Major towns in the West Bank include Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jericho. Agriculture and industry employ millions of Israelis. Today Israel is a leading fruit exporter. The industry is mainly based on military. Service industries account for more than half the employment in Israel. Tourism is anothe ...