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Margaret McMillan was born to James and Jean McMillan in Westchester County, New York, on 20 July 1860. Her parents were from Inverness but had emigrated to the United States in 1840. When she was four an epidemic of Scarlet fever killed her father and sister and left Margaret deaf (she recovered her hearing at the age of fourteen).
Margaret MacMillan wrote that the German public's interpretation of Article 231 (together with Article 232) as unequivocally ascribing the fault for the war to Germany and her allies, "came to be the object of particular loathing in Germany and the cause of uneasy consciences among the Allies." The Allies never expected such a hostile reaction ...
Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 23 December 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto , and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) .
The word "stochastic" – from the ancient Greek "stokhastikos" ('based on guesswork') – is a term from probability theory meaning "randomly determined". [6] The word "parrot" refers to parrots ' ability to mimic human speech , without understanding its meaning.
To Margaret Atwood, in "The Wizard of Oz" the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and the Tin Woodman (Jack Hale) embody male anxiety over surging feminism (Dorothy, played by ...
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
Margaret MacMillan, in her book, The War That Ended Peace, puts the blame for the start of the First World War on the decision making of a small group of people, primarily blaming the leaders of Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary. [51] The Russians did not want to back down after mobilizing, due to the fast mobilization that they had ordered.
The Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.. Margaret McMillan and Fred Jowett were members of the School Board which introduced free school meals in Bradford.