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Ancient Rome The Roman Way of Declaring War 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 by permis...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 The evacuation from Dunkirk For the Allies, the arc of the westward German advance from the Ardennes to the Somme severed all communication between their northern and southern forces. The Allied armies in the north, having fallen back from the Dyl...

The American Civil War, Ulysses S. GrantEdited by: Robert Guisepi2002 From humble beginnings, Ulysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead them to victory. So great was his popularity that the people twice elected him to the presidency.His Birth and BoyhoodUlysse...

Panama Canal Author: Low, A. Maurice Panama Canal By A. Maurice Low No one can look at a map of the Western World without thinking of the great and obvious advantage that would result to commerce if the isthmus could be cut by a ship-canal. From the time when Balboa (not Cortes, as the poet has it...

The Sumerian Flood Story In the beginning, all roads lead to Sumer; until recently, it was the earliest recorded civilization (currently, the oldest extant documents are from Egypt). The Sumerians were a non-Semitic people. The remains show them to be generally short and stocky, with high, straight ...

Title: The State Book: The Functions Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow The Functions Of Government 1473. What are the Functions of Government? - The question has its own difficulties and complexities: it cannot be answered out of hand and by the list, as the physiologist might answer the ques...

Australia And The Islands Of The Sea Author: Larkin, Dunton Introduction Announcement. It is now conceded by all educators that school instruction should be supplemented by reading matter suitable for use by the pupil both in the school and in the home. Whoever looks for such reading, however, must...

Great Puritan Exodus To New England, Founding Of BostonAuthor: Palfrey, John G.Great Puritan Exodus To New England, Founding Of Boston1630Whatever might have been the historic development of New England had itproceeded from the single plantation of Plymouth, it is certain that thegrowth and characte...

World Civilizations: The Origins Of Civilizations Human Life In The Era Of Hunters And Gatherers By the end of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in 12,000 B.C., humans had evolved in physical appearance and mental capacity to roughly the same level as today. Our species, Homo sapiens, had been com...

The Grandeur That Was Rome Page Three Date: 2002The Late Republic, 133-30 B.C.The century following 133 B.C., during which Rome's frontiers reached theEuphrates and the Rhine, witnessed the failure of the Republic to solve theproblems that were the by-products of the acquisition of an empire.Effects...

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Within one week's time, in the summer of 1991, the 74-year-old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--or Soviet Union--became a finished part of history. The forces of reform unleashed by President Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s spawned a democratic movement. Af ...

History of Maps The oldest surviving maps are maps from Mesopotamia made on clay tablets and maps from ancient Mediterranean cultures made on mosaic tile. The writings of ancient Greece and Rome refer to other maps, but these were drawn on perishable parchment or paper, and the originals have disapp...