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Although the above graph shows that German losses during this month were very high, they appear even worse when we take the total German strength and convert the above figures into percentages. The single engined Bf109 figures represent 24% of the total fighter strength while the bombers represent a...

Ancient Egypt, Relief sculpture and painting For Egyptians the decoration of tomb walls with reliefs or painted scenes provided some certainty of the perpetuation of life; in a temple, similarly, it was believed that mural decoration magically ensured the performance of important ceremonies and rein...

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT (AD 280?-337). Two important events marked the reign of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. He made Christianity a lawful religion in Roman society, and he founded the city of Constantinople, the brilliant capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Flavius Val...

The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Hold The Line at All Costs Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 rica Excerpts From Chamberlain's Writings As we neared the summit of the mountain, the shot so raked the crest that we had to keep our men below it to save their heads, although this did no...

Caesar(died 44 B.C.E.)By PlutarchWritten 75 A.C.E.Translated by John DrydenAfter Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Caesar put away his wife Cornelia, daughter of Cinna, the late sole ruler of the commonwealth, but was unable to effect it either by promises or intimidation, and so conten ...

World War One Tragic War And Futile Peace: World War I Edited By: Robert Guisepi 2001 World War I (The Great War) from its beginning to the Armistice including the Marne, Somme, Verdun, gas, trench war, poems and music "What is this war? It is mud, trenches, blood, rats, lice, bombs, pain, barbed wi...

Invention Of The TelegraphAuthor: Cornell, Alonzo B.Invention Of The Telegraph1844After the experiments of Franklin that did so much to advance the studyof electrical phenomena, and to suggest practical applications of electricity,physicists in all countries occupied themselves with investigations a...

Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Author: Pears, Edwin Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Plunder Of The Sacred Relics, A.D. 1204 In the treaty arranged at the end of the Third Crusade (1192) it was stipulated that all hostilities between the Christians and the Moslems should cea...

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...

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...

Dancing Mania Of The Middle AgesAuthor: Hecker, J. F. C.Translation: Babington, B.G.Dancing Mania Of The Middle Ages1374The black death, which originated in Central China about 1333, appearedon the Mediterranean littoral in 1347, ravaged the island of Cyprus, made thecircuit of the Mediterranean cou...

Intellectual Revolt Of Germany, Goethe's "Werther" Revives RomanticismAuthor: Hillebrand, KarlIntellectual Revolt Of Germany, Goethe's "Werther" Revives Romanticism1775 The latter half of the eighteenth century was, throughout Europe, aperiod of revolt against the old ideas, the outworn bonds of med...