Kurt Vonnegut's "The Barnhouse Effect"
1. At no time were his experiments, as Premier Slezak called them, "a bourgeois (characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns) plot to shackle the true democracies of the world."
2. "Did you give it everything you had?" asked the general dubiously (in a doubtful manner).
3. Many a stouthearted patriot has found himself prone (lying face down) in the tangled bunting and timbers of a smashed reviewing stand.
4. Save for one short, enigmatic (mysterious) message left in my mailbox on Christmas Eve, I have not heard from him since his disappearance a year and a half ago.
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The answer is Versailles, France
After the French revolution, the French economy was in ruins.<span> The Directory </span><span>failed to restore stability took effective steps to control the money supply overpowered the revolutionaries </span>.<span> Napoleon took advantage of this situation by </span><span>executing the ruler of France terminating the French legislative councils appointing himself as the Emperor of France </span><span>in a coup.
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Why did people want to go on the Oregon Trail?
OREGON TRAIL, one of several routes traveled in the mid-nineteenth century by pioneers seeking to settle in the western territories. Over a period of about thirty years, roughly 1830 to 1860, some 300,000 Americans crowded these overland trails. The Oregon Trail was first traveled in the early 1840s.
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