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Discovery Of The Canary Islands And The African Coast Author: Helps, Sir Arthur Discovery Of The Canary Islands And The African Coast Beginning Of Negro Slave Trade, A.D. 1402 The Canary Islands - the "Elysian Fields" and "Fortunate Islands" of antiquity - have perhaps figured in fabulous lore mo...

Opening Of JapanAuthor: Perry, Matthew C.Opening Of Japan1854In view of the events that have followed, the ending of Japan'sself-isolation and the opening of that country, first to American commerce,and later to world-wide intercourse, must now be regarded as an achievement ofmomentous consequence, ...

The Agrarian Revolution and the Birth of Civilization: Part Two The Neolithic Transition The advent of agriculture marked a transformative era in human history, as societies began to reshape their environments dramatically. Humans transitioned into sedentary cultivators, clearing land, controlling p...

Conspiracy Of Pontiac Author: Randall, E. O. Conspiracy Of Pontiac 1763With the fall of Quebec and De Vaudreuil's capitulation of Montreal, Canada passed from the dominion of France to Britain, and for a time came under military rule. In the West, around the shores of the Great Lakes and the country...

A History of Ancient Greece Draco and Solon Laws Draco, 7th century BC also spelled DRACON, Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death--hence the continued use of the word draconian to describe repressive legal measures. The six junior arch...

The Byzantine Empire, Part One Eastern Europe, And Russia To 1600 Donald MacGillivray Nicol: Koraës Professor Emeritus of Byzantine and Modern Greek History, Language, and Literature, King's College, University of London. Director, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Battle of the Bulge On Dec. 16, 1944, the Nazis launched a furious counterattack in the Ardennes. While overcast skies grounded Allied planes 24 German divisions drove a bulge 60 miles wide and 45 miles deep into the American lines. Part of this s...

Shortly after the discovery of X-rays in 1895, an imaginative English businessman started selling x-ray proof undergarments to women who thought that they would be stared at by men wearing x-ray glasses.*****One morning in 1705, the people of West Hartlepool, England, saw a hairy odd-looking charact...

The First Plantation ColonyEarly Latin AmericaAuthor: Stearns, PeterDate: 1999The search for gold and silver was a constant theme in overseasexpansion, but there were other European demands the New World could alsosatisfy, which contributed to its growing involvement in the Western-dominatedworld ec...

The first serious battle of the American Civil War was fought in Virginia at a place known as Manassas Junction. The Union would come to remember it as Bull Run. Two great armies were converging on the farm of Wilmer McClean and he hurried home trying to reach safety before the fighting began. Wilme...

Ancient Egypt, The Egyptian calendar EGYPT'S HISTORY Robert Guisepi, 1984 The Valley of the Nile The ancient Egyptians originally employed a calendar based upon the Moon, and, like many peoples throughout the world, they regulated their lunar calendar by means of the guidance of a sidereal calendar....

Babylonia, A history of ancient Babylon (Babylonia) including its cities, laws, kings and legacy to civilization. The last kings of Babylonia Awil-Marduk (called Evil-Merodach in the Old Testament; 561-560), the son of Nebuchadrezzar, was unable to win the support of the priests of Marduk. His reig...