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World War One, Flanders Field In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now ...

Lucius Cornelius SullaSulla, Lucius Cornelius, called Felix (138-78BC), Roman general and statesman, who led the Optimates (aristocratic party) during the civil war of 88-86BC. Sylla By Plutarch Sylla(legendary, died 78 B.C.E.) By Plutarch Written 75 A.C.E. LUCIUS Cornelius Sylla was descended of a ...

History Filipo Brunelleschi Dufay's stunning motet Nuper Rosarum Flores holds a particularly important place in the history of Florence. As its text relates, Dufays motet was composed for the consecration of Florence's great Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, known colloquially as Il Duomo on the Fe...

Ancient Rome The Grandeur of Rome, 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 permission) "Re...

A History of Ancient Greece LegacyAuthor: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 A Vital LegacyThe final complexity in dealing with classical Greece (and then Rome)involves its relationship to us - to contemporary residents of North America.For most Americans, Greece constitutes the first phase of "our own" clas...

Persia Life and legend of Cyrus II Author: Grote, George Cyrus was born between 590 and 580 BC, either in Media or, more probably, in Persis, the modern Fars province of Iran. The meaning of his name is in dispute, for it is not known whether it was a personal name or a throne name given to him when...

Revolutionary Movements In GermanyAuthor: Maurice, C. EdmundPart I.1848Popular demonstrations in various parts of Germany in the greatrevolutionary year 1848 were no doubt partly due to the outbreaks in Franceand elsewhere, but it is also apparent that discontent at home had been longturning the peo...

England Under Harefoot, Hardicanute, And Edward The Confessor Author: Dickens, Charles Chapter VI. England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, And Edward The Confessor. Canute left three sons, by name Sweyn, Harold, and Hardicanute; but his queen, Emma, once the Flower of Normandy, was the mother ...

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...

Babylonia, A history of ancient Babylon (Babylonia) including its cities, laws, kings and legacy to civilization. Part Six History Of The Babylonians Language And Literature Book: Introduction Author: Godspeed, George 22. The discoverers of the long-buried memorials of Assyria and Babylonia were a...

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...

The Reformation and Counter Reformation THE REFORMATION Europe's Search For Stability The Reformation was the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century; its greatest leaders were Martin Luther and John Calvin. Having far-reaching political, economic and social ef...