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Alcatraz On June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and the two brothers, Clarence and John Anglin, escaped from the prison Alcatraz in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. According to the ¨Investigation¨ article, the FBI closed the case in the year 1979 and the case was on going for 17 years. They had pronounced in this article that they think that the three escapees had died but, I think otherwise. There is a lot of evidence proving that these escapees are not dead. According to the video, “Did Frank Morris

The California Gold Rush was a spectacular event in California’s history. It occurred from 1848-1855. Many, many people migrated to California to find the gold that was said to be there. This changed California from a dreary and unpopulated place to a thriving and happy place to be. Not everyone struck it rich, though, not even the person who discovered it, James W. Marshall. California’s motto, Eureka, is a reference to the Gold Rush. The California Gold Rush was a life-changing event for many people

Due to the amount of civil unrest in Spain, the military coup of July 1936 was not unexpected. Lead by General Franco in the South, it became the onset of the civil war with Franco later becoming the leader of the Nationalists. The Republicans resisted the attack of the Nationalists, however it was not just these two sides that were participating in the civil war. Casanova (2013, Chapter 3) titles one of his chapters in his book about the Spanish Civil War "An International War on Spanish Soil",

The early Francoist period of Spain’s history was filled with violence, discourse, and the beginning of a new government. Soon after the end of the Spanish Civil War, there was still fighting going on between the victorious Nationalists and the Republicans. The fantasy film Pan’s Labyrinth depicts this time period of Spain in a surrealist setting as it follows the adventures of a young girl, Ofelia, as she goes between a dark underground world and the real world. While the film is often surrealist

Francisco Pizarro: Spanish explorer who discovered and conquered the Inca Empire, nowadays Peru. Hernán Cortés: Spanish explorer who discovered and conquered the Aztec Empire, nowadays central Mexico. Pizarro and Cortés were two great men in the history of the world, men who made an impact in society and left their print for future generations. There have been many conquerors and discoverers that, like them, have contributed to the advances in the world made by the human race. Discoveries and conquers

Through their separate mediums of writing, poetry and literature, both Neruda and Allende both achieve a common goal of criticizing the actions of certain militant forces, past or present, within there country of living. In Neruda’s “I’m explaining a Few Things”, the Civil Spanish war, sparked by the forceful and bloody overtake of the current, fair republican government by the Faschist general Fransisco Franco, is the topic of Neruda’s disgust and criticism. The “burning” and “devouring” manner

These young people were growing their hair long, participating in free love, and flexing their flower power. The hippie generation was not all about rebelling againsed their parents or doing drugs and having sex, Hippies are people who believe that the way to peace is love. They believe that in order to love one another it is important that they accept one another for who they are but the people in their time others did not see this. They just saw kids that were breaking the law. They did many wild

gradually assumed by General Franco, leading forces he had brought from Morocco. On October 1, 1936, he was named head of state and set up a government in Burgos. The Republican government, beginning in September 1936, was headed by the socialist leader Francisco Largo Caballero. He was followed in May 1937 by Juan Negrín, also a socialist, who remained premier throughout the remainder of the war and served as premier in exile until 1945. The president of the Spanish Republic until nearly the end of the war

army of Africa to aid them in this conflict. The Spanish army began to train with the French army on combat tactics and procedures in which they eventually adopted, thus the “Spanish Legion” was established in 1920 under the command of General Francisco Franco. As their numbers grew larger, so did their reputation for being extremely ruthless, as they led a large number of offensive operations, ravaging and devastating the country of Morocco. The War During the course of the war, the Spanish army

Dead Men Do Tell Tales In the book, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, by William R. Maples, Ph.D. and Michael Browning, a story is told in how the dead, no matter how dead, still “talk” to us. The book is appropriately titled because, according to Dr. Maples, truth is discoverable, truth wants to be discovered (2). Dr. Maples tells us of what it is like to be a Forensic Anthropologist. Dr. Maples does not hold anything back in any of his descriptions, from the smell of corpses to the explanations of maggots