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The Great DepressionThe story of the World Wide Great Depression and how it effected the 20th Century The Twentieth Century In World History Book: One-Half Century Of Crisis, 1914-1945 Author: Adas, Michael Date: 1992 The Great Depression The next step in a mounting spiral of international crisis ...

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...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization The Hittite empire to c. 1180 BC Principal archaeological sites of Anatolia and northern Syria to c. 1340 BC. It is possible that the branch of the Hittite royal family that gained control i...

The Battle of the Alamo Stephen L. Hardin The siege and the final assault on the Alamo in 1836 constitute the most celebrated military engagement in Texas history. The battle was conspicuous for the large number of illustrious personalities among its combatants. These included Tennessee congressman ...

World War Two, DE GAULLE, Charles (1890-1970). Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Twice in 20 years France looked to Charles de Gaulle for leadership in a time of trouble. General de Gaulle led the Free French government in the dark days of World War II. In 1958 he returned to power in an attem...

The Hyksos The Hyksos were a group of mixed Semitic-Asiatics who settled in northern Egypt during the 18th century BC. In about 1630 they seized power, and Hyksos kings ruled Egypt as the 15th dynasty (c. 1630-1521 BC). The name Hyksos was used by the Egyptian historian Manetho (fl. 300 BC), who, ...

Discovery Of NeptuneAuthor: Lodge, Sir OliverDiscovery Of Neptune1846Among modern astronomical discoveries none has been regarded as moreimportant than that of Neptune, the outermost known planet of the solarsystem. It was a rich reward to the watchers of the sky when this new planetswam into their ...

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...

Hammurabi Code of Laws Translated by L. W. King When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they...

The Sumerian king list: translation (In the following translation, mss. are referred to by the sigla used by Vincente 1995; from those listed there, mss. Fi, Go, P6, and WB 62 were not used; if not specified by a note, numerical data come from ms. WB.) After the kingship descended from heaven, the k...

Ancient Rome Rome Established As A Republic, Part Two Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed ...

Trajan b. Sept. 15?, AD 53, Italica, Baetica [now in Spain]d. Aug. 8/9, 117, Selinus, Cilicia [now in Turkey] Latin IN FULL CAESAR DIVI NERVAE FILIUS NERVA TRAIANUS OPTIMUS AUGUSTUS, also called ( 9798) CAESAR NERVA TRAIANUS GERMANICUS, ORIGINAL NAME MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS, Roman emperor (AD 98-117)...