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A History of Ancient Greece GREEK LITERATURE The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Gr...

The American Civil War, Belle Boyd (1843 - 1900) Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 One of the most famous of Confederate spies, Belle Boyd served the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Born in Martinsburg-now part of West Virginia-she operated her spying operations from her fathers hotel in F...

The Genesis narrative in the light of recent scholarship The saga of Abraham unfolds between two landmarks, the exodus from "Ur of the Chaldeans" (Ur Kasdim) of the family, or clan, of Terah and "the purchase of " (or "the burials in") the cave of Machpelah. Tradition seems particularly firm on thi...

History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians Book: Part III: The Ascendancy Of Assyria Author: Godspeed, George Last Days Of Splendor Ashurbanipal. 668-626 B.C. 248. Upon the death of Esarhaddon the arrangements made by him for the succession were smoothly and promptly carried out; the empire passed to...

Spaniards And Portuguese: Background To Conquest The peoples who inhabited the Iberian peninsula had long lived at the frontier of Mediterranean Europe. The peninsula had known many inhabitants - Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Goths - and during the Middle Ages it had become a cultural fron...

World War One, President Woodrow Wilson's War Message Woodrow Wilson, War Messages, 65th Cong., 1st Sess. Senate Doc. No. 5, Serial No. 7264, Washington, D.C., 1917; pp. 3-8, passim.On 3 February 1917, President Wilson addressed Congress to announce that diplomatic relations with Germany were seve...

The Origins Of Civilizations The Agrarian Revolution And The Birth Of Civilization Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Agriculture And The Origins Of Civilization: The Neolithic RevolutionThere was nothing natural or inevitable about the development of agriculture. Because cultivation of plant...

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...

Cuneiform Cuneiform was the system of writing used most extensively in the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform was employed for writing a number of languages from about the end of the 4th millennium BC until about the 1st century BC.The earliest attested documents in cuneiform were written in Sumerian, t...

Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Art History, also called Art Historiography, historical study of the visual arts, being concerned with identifying, classifying, describing, evaluating, interpreting, and understanding the art products and historic development of the fields of painting, sculpture, architectu...

A History of Ancient Greece, TROY The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 Greek TROIA, also called ILIOS, OR ILION, Latin TROIA, TROJA, OR ILIUM, was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of the Troj...

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