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The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored, persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 across Europe and North Africa. The height of the persecution and murder occurred during World War II. By the end of the war in 1945, the Germans and their collaborators had killed nearly two out of every three European Jews.
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The terms of the surrender were generous: Confederate soldiers would have to turn in their rifles, but they could return home immediately and keep their horses or mules. They were also given food as many of them were very hungry. These terms were more than Lee and the Confederate Army could ask for.
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Odysseus's wife and Telemachus's mother. In the beginning of the story, Penelope's most prominent qualities are passivity, loyalty, and patience (along with beauty and skill at the loom) – the age-old feminine virtues. She does very little but lie in bed and weep. But from the start we are given to understand that she possesses other hidden qualities. The trick of the loom, which she weaves and unweaves in order to hold the suitors at bay, matches the cunning of any of Odysseus's plans. Her final scene, in which she mentions the bridal bed built around the olive tree, shows her cleverness as well: she tests Odysseus just as he has tested her. Theirs is a marriage of wits.
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A. That Britain only did so out of self-interest.
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Thomas Paine was an English American author and commentator whose "Common Sense" and different scripts inspired the Westerner Revolution, and served to cover the route for the Declaration of Independence. Common Sense is a compilation composed by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 vindicating independence from Great Britain to personages in the Thirteen Territories. Inscribed indefinite and powerful prose, Paine ordered ethical and legislative contentions to support ordinary people in the Territories to struggle for the impartial rule.
