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The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VINotwithstanding the deranged condition of the Milanese, no furtherattempts were made by the senate of Venice for twenty years. They had not yetacquired that decided love of war and conquest which soon began to influencethem against all the rules of t...

Augustus (63 BC- AD 14), first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), who restored unity and orderly government to the realm after nearly a century of civil wars. He presided over an era of peace, prosperity, and cultural achievement known as the Augustan Age.The Divine Augustus Augustus was born Sept. 23, ...

Famine In IrelandAuthor: Duffy, Sir Charles GavanFamine In Ireland1847From the fact that its immediate cause was the almost complete failure ofthe potato crop, due to the rot, the great Irish famine is known as the"potato famine." The crop that suffered so was that of 1845, and the faminebegan in th...

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...

The Middle Ages Date: 2002 The Making Of Modern Britain Medieval Politics, Economics, Religion, And Learning Introduction Between 1000 and 1300, drastic political, economic, and social change occurred in Europe. Not only did trade revive, cities grow, and a new bourgeois social class emerge, but i...

Praise to Ishtar (from an Akkadian hymn to Ishtar, translated by Ferris J. Stephens) She is clothed with pleasure and love.She is laden with vitality, charm,and voluptuousness.Ishtar is clothed with pleasure and love.She is laden with vitality, charm,an Praise to Ishtar (from an Akkadian hymn to Ish...

Joshua ChamberlainLying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describingthe Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horsestumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & at ...

Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 BC), Roman general and statesman, who laid the foundations of the Roman imperial system. Caesar(died 44 B.C.E.) By Plutarch Written 75 A.C.E. After Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Caesar put away his wife Cornelia, daughter of Cinna, the late sole ruler of ...

Council Of Trent And The Counter-ReformationAuthor: Ward, Adolphus W.1545 An important phase of history in the sixteenth century is summarized byMacaulay when he says that "the Church of Rome, having lost a large part ofEurope, not only ceased to lose, but actually regained nearly half of what sheha...

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...

World War One, Between the two world wars A strong impulse toward the development of international studies in universities came in the 1920s. New centers, institutes, and schools devoted to teaching and research in international relations were founded. Courses were organized and general textbooks ...

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), the f...