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    With steady improvements and with more of the tourist looking for a backwoods area with excellent fishing and hunting the Summer Resort started to flourish. On of the earliest guests of John 's Summer Resort was two families of Bampfield 's, James and his brother along with their wives on an 1895 fishing excursion. The Bampfields were one of the wealthiest families in Niagara Falls Ontario whose success emanated form various commercial development such as the Great Western Restaurant and a…

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    In McManus’ illustrations this scene is illustrated in a very different way. The illustrator uses colors such as red and green to make the scene pop out at the reader more than the illustrations in the Norton Edition, which are all black and white. Alice, who does not appear to be much larger than the other animals, is trying to hold onto the goose. A parrot is seen flying away, a frog is running away, and another goose has been knocked over by Alice who we can assume is trying to help the…

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    South Africa, as well as diamonds at Kimberley, created a massive influx of British investment into South Africa” (O’Reilly 30). In the period between 1840-1899, Boer [farmer] Republics were established in Orange Free State, the Transvaal and in Natal. This resulted in the First Anglo-Boer War in 1880, followed by the Second Anglo-Boer war in 1899, in 1902 the Boer Republics were eventually defeated by Britain. In 1910, under British colonial rule, the Union of South Africa was formed and…

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    Cotton Candy History

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    As amazing as it may seem cotton candy was invented by four men – Josef Delarose Lascaux, Thomas Patton, William Morrison, and John C. Wharton. Both Wharton and Morrison patented the first electric cotton candy machine back in 1899. Cotton candy was first introduced to the public at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. However it was 50 years later when in 1949 a cotton candy machine with a spring base was introduced that it became easier to process cotton candy. Today cotton candy continues to…

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    Jack London was an American writer, author and journalist who lived from 1876 to 1916. Some of his famous works include The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he was raised in Oakland, California, by his mother and stepfather. Jack London is considered to be a great writer. In his teenage years, he worked many different jobs. In his spare time, he read travel books and novels at the library. Eventually, he told his mother a story of what happened one day…

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    for women, there is a distinct difference in treatment between the genders. The novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a classic novel due to its acknowledgement of the sexist lifestyle of the 19th century, an issue still present today. Published in 1899, The Awakening is a classic mainly for its feminist ideals of a woman being her own, independent being. Typically, the “social norm” of this period was that people looked at women “as one […] looks at a valuable piece of personal property”.…

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    Explain the “Traditional Model of Juvenile Justice” and what is the importance of the Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899? During the Traditional Model of Juvenile Justice, juveniles were tried separately from adults and these changes began in the 1870s. This system was created so that criminal record of juveniles was not made public but kept securely. The Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899 is the first law to implement the separation of juvenile court. The purpose of this act was to not try…

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    Duke Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington on April 29, 1899. The name “Duke” was a nickname given to him because of his choice of clothing. Duke’s parent both worked to live a decent life his mother a domestic and his father a butler who had a part-time catering business. Duke studied piano since the age of seven and was influences by pianist, James Johnson and Willie the Lion Smith. He wrote his first song “The Soda Fountain Rag”, at the age of seventeen. This title was influenced by a…

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    The Boers tried to keep everyone out of the south, they didn't want them gaining political rights. People tried fighting the Boers, however that failed. The Boers became upset and blamed everything on the British. They had enough, in 1899 they decided to fight the British. This war was called the Boer War, it was also known as the South Africa War. The Boers used raids and guerrilla tactics against the British. The British retaliated by burning the Boer farms and locking women and children…

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    Jean Moulin was born on June 20, 1899 in south west France. Jean Moulin enlisted in the army in 1918. Although he never saw any action, he later became known as a hero due to his work in the French Resistance during World War II. After going to college to study law Moulin's was extremely passionate about politics. Due to his passion it was not a surprise when he was arrested by the occupying Gestapo and tortured as a suspected communist in June of 1940. During his time in confinement Moulin…

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