The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
There were long seeded differences between the United States and the Soviet Union over ideologies. In the Russian Revolution of 1917 the communists took power. The United States and Britain were worried that the same thing might happen in their countries.
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The Metric Act of 1866, enacted on 28 July 1866 , legally recognized the metric system of measurement in the US. It's sometimes referred to as the Kasson Act, after Congressman John A. Kasson of Iowa, who chaired the House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures.
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The correct answer is D. The missionary brothers who converted the Slavic peoples of Moravia to the Orthodox Christianity of the Byzantine Empire were Cyril and Methodius.
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Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in the 8th century in Thessaloniki who became missionaries of Christianity in the Khazars and Moravia. They promoted the use of the Old Church Slavonic as a liturgical language and developed the Glagolitic alphabet, the predecessor of the Cyrillic alphabet.
In fact, the nickname of Cyril was Constantinos, and he worked as a philologist and university teacher in Constantinople. The original name of Methodius has still not been found out, but he was a monk and at some point in his life also worked as an administrator.
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Roosevelt uses logical evidence by explaining that, once people have seen these freedoms, they will want them for themselves.
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Eleanor Roosevelt's 1958 speech "The Struggle for Human Rights" was given in Paris to appeal to the members of the United Nations to vote for the Declaration of Human Rights. Her speech talks about the <em>"preservation of human rights" </em>and how it is important that individual rights be given enough importance as opposed to collective rights.
In her speech, Roosevelt talks about how unanimity is a difficult task to achieve, considering the <em>"different concepts of government and human rights"</em> that each government has. But at the same time, the struggle to achieve unanimity <em>"must be firm and patient." </em>She also reiterates the importance of such unity in the face of a desire to be free.
Thus, the correct answer is the second option.
