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the enlightenment
The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view -
gatling gun
In 1861, Doctor Richard Gatling patented the Gatling Gun, a six-barreled weapon capable of firing a masive 200 rounds per minute. The Gatling gun was a hand-driven, crank-operated, multi-barrel, machine gun. The first machine gun with reliable loading. this gun was also used agenst indiginas people due to the fact that they only hade speers and arows but people coming for more sivilaised countrys -
Edmund Barton
Edmund Barton became Australia's first Prime Minister on New Year's Day 1901 at a huge public ceremony in Centennial Park in Sydney. Barton was certainly qualified for his new job. He'd been a member of the New South Wales parliament for 20 years, -
the start of world war one
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war mainly in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. The First World War also killed 17 million people -
the battle of fromelles
Fromelles was the first major battle fought by Australian troops on the Western Front. Directed against a strong German position known as the Sugar Loaf salient. When the troops of the 5th Australian and 61st British Divisions attacked at 6 pm on 19 July 1916, they suffered heavily at the hands of German machine-gunners.
