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Founding Of The JesuitsAuthor: Taylor, IsaacFounding Of The Jesuits1540Toward the middle of the sixteenth century definite utterance began to begiven to a widespread feeling in the Church that the old monastic orders wereno longer fulfilling their purpose. Suggestions of new orders wereentertained b...

The United States Of America Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi This is the story of how the American Republic developed from colonial beginnings in the 16th century, when the first European explorers arrived, until modern times."We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more per...

Foundation Of VeniceAuthor: Hodgkin, Thomas; Ruskin, JohnThomas Hodgkin The terrible invaders, made wrathful and terrible by the resistance ofAquileia, streamed through the trembling cities of Venetia. Each earlierstage in the itinerary shows a town blotted out by their truly Tartar geniusfor destr...

The Battle of Britain 1940 Groups and Sectors of the RAF Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force was divided into a number of groups and Great Britain was covered by four operational groups in total. 10 Group covered the south-west, 11 Group covered the south-east, 12 Group covered the Midlands whi...

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Saracens Conquer Egypt Destruction Of The Library At AlexandriaAuthor: Irving, Washington640Who shall estimate the loss to civilization and the world that has beencaused by the destruction of accumulated stores of books, through the crassignorance or stupid bigotry of benighted rulers? The chronicle...

History Of The Conquest Of Mexico, The Aztecs (part eight) The Postclassical Era Book: Chapter 17: The Americas On The Eve Of Invasion Author: Prescott, William H Date: 1992 Analysis and Conclusion Analysis: The "Troubling" Civilizations Of The Americas From the first encounter with the peoples of ...

The American Civil War, Abolition, Jefferson Davis During the Civil War, Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States and Abraham Lincoln led the United States. Both were born in Kentucky, several months apart, Davis on June 3, 1808. The Lincolns moved to Indiana soon after, then to Illin...

Age Of Fable Or Beauties Of Mythology Author: Bulfinch, Thomas Preface If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier...

A History of Ancient Greece Religions Of GreeceAuthor: Foot Moore, GeorgeDate: 1913Religion In Early GreeceThe Aegaean Civilisation - The Hellenic Migrations - Prehellenic andGreek Religion - The Land - The Gods - Zeus - Artemis - Apollo - Hermes -Athena - Aphrodite - Hera - Hephaistos - Ares - Othe...

The American Civil War Chronology Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr. 1860 November 6 - Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States. December 14 - A call issued in Georgia for a convention to deliberate on a Southern Confederacy. December 20 - South Carolina s...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...