This document was once part of my history notes. However, I have found that making accurate history notes is boring and does little to help me remember content anyway. So these are improved notes, which is to say that a lot of what is here should never be written on a final by any student [...Read more...]
(Click for full size) Just saw this on Reddit. This is apparently how the United States looks like from a European perspective. As you can see, it attaches a popular stereotype to a certain group of states. For example, California’s large liberal population = hippies. Here are my attempted explanations for some of the labels: [...Read more...]
(Image source: U.S. Army) If you haven’t heard on Facebook, the U.S. Army celebrates its 235th birthday today; 1775-today! Here is what the official U.S. Army site has to say on this glorious event: Two hundred and thirty-five years ago, the United States Army was established to defend our Nation. From the Revolutionary War to [...Read more...]
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I have taken the liberty of compiling all my history notes on the political history of JFK into sentences for easier reading. 45 years ago (in 2009), an assassin terminated the life of the youngest President in the history of the United States: John Fitzgerald Kennedy. During his short term, which lasted a mere 1,036 [...Read more...]
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I have taken the liberty of compiling all my non-political notes about JFK into a nice paragraph format. It was a day like any other on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. The United States had recently entered World War I, but the country was hardly affected in comparison to the major European powers. However, [...Read more...]
The American Revolution / War of Independence Notes General Situation French defeat in the Seven Years’ War left the British in control of nearly all the settled parts of North America In 1763, the Treaty of Paris recognized British claims on the continent that were east of the Mississippi, including Florida and British North America [...Read more...]