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AEMILIUS PAULUS by Plutarch Almost all historians agree that the Aemilii were one of the ancient and patrician houses in Rome; and those authors who affirm that king Numa was pupil to Pythagoras, tell us that the first who gave the name to his posterity was Mamercus, the son of Pythagoras, who, for ...

FLOOD LEGENDS In the traditions of most ancient civilizations there can be found a legend concerning a flood of such enormous proportions that it is believed to have covered the whole Earth. Such was the destructive force of this flood that few land animals and plants survived it. For readers in Wes...

By the simplest definition, architecture is the design of buildings, executed by architects. However, it is more. It is the expression of thought in building. It is not simply construction, the piling of stones or the spanning of spaces with steel girders. It is the intelligent creation of forms and...

History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians Book: Part II: The Rise Of Assyria And Its Struggles With Kassite Babylonia Author: Godspeed, George Times Of Tiglathpileser I. 1100 B.C. 133. The splendid extension of Assyrian authority to the northwest, achieved by Shalmaneser I. and his successors (sect....

Publius Aelius Hadrianus, called Hadrian, was Roman emperor from AD 117 until 138. He regarded his 20-year reign as a golden age of peace and prosperity, comparable to that of his great predecessor Augustus more than 100 years earlier (see Augustus). Monuments to Hadrian's reign are the Tivoli villa...

Age Of Fable Or Beauties Of Mythology Author: Bulfinch, Thomas Preface If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier...

The American Civil War: Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Ambrose Everett Burnside, though often criticized for his tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, faced unique challenges and exhibited a mix of success and failure throughout his military career. Nota...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms chang...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Domitianus, c. 110 C.E. I. DOMITIAN was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of November of the year when his father was Consul-elect and was about to enter on the office in the following month [October 24, 51 C.E.], in a street of the sixt...

BOOK V Contents I. How Ethelwald, successor to Cuthbert, leading an eremitical life, calmed a tempest when the brethren were in danger at sea. [A.D. 687] II. How Bishop John cured a dumb man by blessing him. [A.D. 685] III. The same bishop, John, by his prayers, healed a sick maiden. [A.D. 686] IV. ...

The Middle Ages Political Organization In The Early Middle Ages The centralization of the Carolingian state was not long a source of political stability in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. In those areas where the Carolingian Empire had little impact, and even in the regions which were at s...

In the olden days in Germany and Austria, some people kept a frog, and a tiny ladder, in a jar half-filled with water for predicting the weather. If the frog stayed put rain would come. But if the frog climbed up the ladder the sun would come out.**********The hole in the doughnut was created in 184...