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exchange stock (titres) just between them and to determinate together the fixed amount of their commissions. That’s finally, in 1817 the New York Stock & Exchange Board appeared in Manhattan. So, 44 years later, broke out in New York (in United States of America generally), the civil war between 1861 and 1865 (the secession war). During all this bloody period, the American government demanded to Wall Street to finance this war. During this long period, there was a lot of little event like the

for 12 people. The legal sales The United States arrive at the head(top) of the producers of weapons, with 55 % of the exports, followed by the United Kingdom (17 %), Russia (8 %), France (6 %), Israel (4 %) and Germany (3 %).Weapons represent an important piece of the world economy. So, they represented 4,4 % of the French total exports between 1980 and 1988 and 4,8 % for the United Kingdom. In 2005 the annual report of the Congress of the United States on arms sales in the world considered

Actually, I was on internet and I saw an article which me had take in for questioning. The tittle of this article is : one day without Mexicans. Briefly, I only would like to say that this article deals with Mexicans immigrants in the South on the United Sates (I will explain the problem with more detail in the first part). I think migration is a very important and interesting topic. Indeed, this subject touches closely more or less every country in the world. When you think about migration

1940’s, for instance the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan. This meant that the Americans were providing financial and military assistance to the countries: this promised an efficient defense against communist countries and its spread. The United States actually feared the domino theory which consists in: “If you knock over the first domino in a line the rest will fall down too”. The USA thought this would happen if one country was knocked over by the Communist threat. Soon all nearby countries

The first constitution of the United States was called “The Articles of Confederation.” It had many problems, including: * Every state had its own currency and monetary policy * Every state pursued its own foreign policy * Federal taxes could not be imposed on states, so taxes were voluntary * Every state had its own judicial system * Every state had its own militia; there was no real common defense policy * To change the Articles all states had to agree * There was

largest battle of the war: the Battle of Brooklyn. The British won and went on to occupy the city from September 1776 to late 1783. George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789 in front of Federal Hall and the city served as the capital of the United States until 1790. Modern New York City traces its development to the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 and an economic and building boom following the Great Depression and World War II. Throughout

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PART 1) Etienne Coursimault Program Matrikulasi De La Salle/Manado February 11th, 2011 Let us remember that we are in the holy presence of God… “Where do…” “…American people come from?” …Asia! …& Africa! Hunters from Asia walked to America around12,000 B.C.    In search of large animals to hunt, they walked across Bering Strait They arrived at the Great Plains They colonize North America America discovered by European

outside (parti : 1) My first real encounter with the world outside the United States came in 1962, when I spent several months working for an anti-gouvernment newspaper in South Africa. [...] The battle against apartheid was my first exposure to serious politics, and to a nineteen-year-old, as I was then, it was overwhelming. Part of the experience was realizing that the USA was on the wrong side. Fine speeches at the United Nations were one thing, but the directory board in the lobby of the American

region and to maintain a status quo in order to avoid any negative impact on domestic affairs. For this last reason, and in order to ensure the regime stability along with the safety of petrol exports, Saudi Arabia developed close ties with the United States. This “strategic alliance” and the introduction of American military bases in the kingdom gave voice to opposition movements inside and outside the country. However, and with the fall of Saddam’s regime in Iraq, the US is giving up military bases

Martin Luther King : Martin Luther King, Jr. is a Baptist afro-American minister born in Atlanta (United States) on January 15th, 1929 and dead man murdered on April 4th, 1968 to Memphis. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later he had his name changed to Martin. Not violent activist for the civil rights of the Blacks in the United States, for the peace and against the poverty, he organizes and manages actions such the Boycott of Montgomery's buses to defend the