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than the movies, which still shows how Disney’s other properties are worth more to the company for the profit made. The two most popular Disney films based largely on American folklore, not partly, based on box office revenue are Song of the South (1946) and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955), which made 65 million dollars and 2 million dollars, respectively. Very little merchandise exists for either of these films, and most, if not all, comes from “Frontierland” in the Magic…

The phrase ‘ Special Relationship’ refers to the exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural and historical relations between the United States and the United Kingdom. First used by Winston Churchill, this one phrase summed up the entirety of the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, both of their shared history and their camaraderie to come in future decades ("A Point of View: Churchill and the Birth of the Special Relationship."). The cultural substance of…

Elope?” “We couldn 't. We kept begging your great grandmother to let us get married. Her answer was always the same. No! Then one day Lous’ letters just stopped. I never heard from him again.” Something did add up. Nanna and Grandad had married in 1946. Dad was born in 1947, which means Nanna was already pregnant. Curiosity got the better of me. “How did you end up marrying grandad?” "Your grandfather started writing to me towards the end of the war. He was in the English Army," Nanna…

Terror” from 1945 until 1946, and fled to seek refuge in the mountains. In 1947, three detention camps were established on Greek islands and ten thousand accused communists were forced into the camps. Communists were not allowed to flee the nation during this time, because emigration from Greece was not allowed from 1950 until 1974 unless a person obtained a certificate of affirming one had “nationally correct views” (“Red Acropolis, Black Terror” ). War officially broke out in 1946 between the…

128,650 US causalities were caused from the Korean War, though that is just one event from the Cold War. From about 1945-1991 The Soviet Union and the United States had “icy” tensions which was also known as the cold war. The U.S. wanted capitalism as the Soviet’s wanted communism, they became enemies and the worlds superpowers. In order so communism didn’t spread to the U.S. and our territories, we had contained all of those areas from it. Some argue that US exaggerated communist threat and…

scholarship for her Master’s studies. This seems to have been an interesting and fruitful time for her: she read a great deal and she learned a lot about writing. Her first publication, in Accent magazine, of her story “The Geranium,” occurred in 1946 while she was still a student. In 1947 she won the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award for a first novel, with part of Wise Blood. On the strength of this, she was recommended for a place at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York, a philanthropic…

two shifting tectonic plates, it lies directly below the island and has been the source of multiple earthquakes that have measured over 7.0. In 1918, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake led to a tsunami that killed more than 90 people on the island, while a 1946 8.1-magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that killed as many as 1,800…

Jocques Roumain is an excellent writer that shows audience the essence of the Haitians activism through his beautiful novel "The preface to the life of a bureaucrat." The atavism which was a typical element that characterized the governmental authorities for decades. This novel was published in 1930 and in this period a lot of relevant events happened in Haiti. Eustache Antoine Francois Joseph Louis Borno was a lawyer who later became president of Haiti during the period of American…

Jackie soon retired in 1946 and then got inducted into the Hall of Fame. He sadly died in 1972 in North Stamford, CT. He was shot by a person who didn't like the color of his skin! Overall Jackie was really good person! Jackie Robinson accomplished so many things…

change of pretty much all war supply production back to every day consumer items. These changes incurred a twenty five percent increase on the prices of the items in the wage earners demanded wage increases. When the increases didn't happen by Spring 1946 two major strikes began by the coal miners and railroad…