Reviews for What Every American Should Know About Europe: The Hot Spots, Hotshots, Political Muck-ups, Cross-Border Sniping, and Cultural Chaos of Our Transatlantic Cousins

The average rating for What Every American Should Know About Europe: The Hot Spots, Hotshots, Political Muck-ups, Cross-Border Sniping, and Cultural Chaos of Our Transatlantic Cousins based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-02 00:00:00 Kim Furzer France: biggest food producer in Europe, largest Muslim populations in Europe, World's Top travel destination. Napoleon's younger brother married a woman from Maryland, USA. Their grandson later became US attorney general and founded the FBI. -Apparently, Medicins Sans Frontieres (doctors without Borders) was founded in France in 1971, they won the Nobel Peace Price in 1999 and is now based in Brussels. Germany: -where the first religious conflict was taken place, Martin Luthur emerged in Germany first and initiated the 30 years war which killed millions. -Back in the 1800s, two brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm had been fired after protesting about the king. They then decided to make money by collecting folktales, and eventually publishing stories such as Cinderella and Snow White. UK: -British National Party is recently gaining a lot of power in government. They are a group of whites who hate immigrants and many of them are neo-Nazi members. Although Britian has 99% literacy rate but the functional illiteracy rate is 24%. -Most memorable monarchs: King Arthur: the legendary Arthur and the knights of the round table, first mentioned in a Welsh poem in 596AD King John: the king who was forced to sign the Magna Carta who gave rights to common men James I: the heir to Elizabeth I, who first united Scotland and England and who wanted to change the protestant religion. Under his rule, many fled England and came to America as Pilgrims -Back in 1785, many English noblemen had forced Scots to give up their lands by burning their houses and making sure there were no woods left to rebuild them. Now, it is considered a genocide. -Cecil Rhodes: a son of a villager, he went to a South African farm and bought a gold mine, this mine made him very rich. He then started enslaving blacks in Africa and bought 3 countries(Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi). Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe just recently took the lands back and gave it to the blacks. -The UK has many small parties but normally the prime minister seat goes to either the Conservative(Republican) or Labor (Democrats) Italy: -a design competition in 1402 for the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistry is viewed as the starting point of the Renaissance. -Mussolini granted the Vatican independence in 1929, making it the world's smallest independent state.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-16 00:00:00 Michael Norton Contains some very interesting information (that has to be weeded out) about common European countries.