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Contentment is a state of being in which one is satisfied with their current life situation, and the state of affairs in one’s life as they presently are. If one is content, they are at inner peace with their situation and how the elements in one’s life are situated.
Lin Carter, author of Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, calls "The Festival" "the first Mythos story to use witch-haunted Kingsport as a setting", and also credits it with advancing the lore of the Necronomicon, saying that it is "the first tale to give a lengthy quote from the imaginary book and to tell us something about its history (i.e., that Olaus Wormius translated it into ...
The UK uses 10 principles of war, as taught to all officers of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force: The British Army's principles of war were first published after the First World War and based on the work of the British general and military theorist, J. F. C. Fuller. The definition of each principle has been refined over the ...
The Armistice with Germany marks the end of World War I. German troops are given 72 hours to evacuate occupied territories [5] and Allied troops subsequently move in and occupy the German Rhineland. [citation needed] November 13 The Hungarian–Romanian War begins. December 27 Start of the Greater Poland Uprising against German rule.
Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945). "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to ...
The existence of specific lessons to be learned from the Holocaust is cited as a justification for Holocaust education, but challenged by some critics. [5] There is a tension between the argument that the Holocaust was a unique event in history and that it has lessons that could be applied to other situations.
In the decades preceding World War II, there was a tremendous growth in the recognition of Yiddish as an official Jewish European language, and there was even a Yiddish renaissance, particularly in Poland. On the eve of World War II, there were 11 to 13 million speakers of Yiddish in the world. [15]
This event changed Löhndorff's perspective. However, because he was present at the scene and involved in the situation, the US placed a bounty on his head. A punitive expedition led by General John Pershing was launched but remained unfinished, as the troops were ordered to return in 1917 when the US entered the First World War. [5]