hortly after noon on a drizzly spring day in 1915, the Cunard liner Lusitania backed slowly away from Pier 54 on New York’s Lower West Side. It was Lusitania‘s 202nd Atlantic crossing, and as usual the luxury liner’s sailing attracted a crowd, for the 32,500-ton vessel was one of the fastest and most glamorous ships afloat. In the words of the London Times, she was ‘a veritable greyhound of the seas.’
Passengers, not yet settled in their accommodations, marveled at the ship’s size and splendor. With a length of 745 feet, she was one of the largest man-made objects in the world. First-class passengers could eat in a two-story Edwardian-style dining salon that featured a plasterwork dome arching some thirty feet above the floor. Those who traveled first class also occupied regal suites, consisting of twin bedrooms with a parlor, bathroom, and private dining area, for which they paid four thousand dollars one way. Second-class accommodations on Lusitania compared favorably with first-class staterooms on many other ships.
People strolling through nearby Battery Park watched as three tugs worked to point the liner’s prow downriver toward the Narrows and the great ocean beyond. While well-wishers on the pier waved handkerchiefs and straw hats, ribbons of smoke began to stream from three of the liner’s four tall funnels. Seagulls hovered astern as the liner slowly began to pick up speed.
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The answer is Emperor Hulagu. He sent wanted the Caliph (Al-Musta'sim) to demanded him to surrender the Capital. He promised to continue a governance and security to the land. However, Caliph (Al-Musta'sim), did not agree to Hulagu's terms and demands. T<span>he Caliph (Al Musta'sim) refused despite the weak military condition of his territory. Hulago made an embargo on Baghdad and soon entered the city and killed Abbasi caliph (Al-Musta'sim ).</span>
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Answer: Camillo Benso, count di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Explanation: both 19th-century politicians (at that time Italy was not unified). Cavour was a prime minister of Sardinian kingdom (1852-1859 and then between 1860 and 1861), he was a monarchist politician and belong to those politicians who attempted to unify Italian territories under the rule of Savoy dynasty. He became internationally recognized politician when waging a Crimean war together with Britain and France.
Giuseppe Garibaldi is considered a representantive figure of Italian <em>risorgimento</em> movement driven by nationalist sentiments of that time. In 1860 he was able to move from Genoa to Sicily, to conquer a kingdom of Two Sicilies (at that time under the rule of Bourbon dynasty) and Umbria. These territories Garibaldi handed in to Savoy dynasty (Victor Emmanuel II). After all these event Italian kingdom was proclaimed in Torino (1861). Garibaldi was born in Nizza (today French city of Nice), so he is - as well as Cavour who was born in Torino - from the extreme west of Italy.