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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...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Author: Robert A. Guisepi Date: 2001 The glory that was Greece," in the words of Edgar Allan Poe, was short-lived and confined to a very small geographic area. Yet it has influenced the growth of Western civilization far out of proportion to its...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IIA more fortunate period began with the accession of Henry. [A.D.1368.] His own reign was hardly disturbed by any rebellion; and though hissuccessors, John I. [A.D. 1379] and Henry III. [A.D. 1390], were notaltogether so unm...

Revolt Of Hungary Author: Vambery, Arminius Revolt Of Hungary 1848 Deep interest throughout the civilized world was aroused by the unavailing struggle of Hungary, in 1848, for national independence. The name of Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot and famous orator, became celebrated in many lands;...

Ancient Egypt, Religions Of Egypt Author: Foot Moore, GeorgeChapter II The Middle Kingdom And The Empire The Rise of Thebes - The Sun as Supreme God - Local Gods - Identifications - Enneads and Triads - The Dead - Judgment before Osiris - Moral Ideas - The Empire - Amon-Re the National God - Power o ...

World War One, The Submarine By the eve of World War I all of the major navies included submarines in their fleets, but these craft were relatively small, were considered of questionable military value, and generally were intended for coastal operations. The most significant exception to the concept...

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. ...

Women In Patriarchal Societies The Origins Of Civilizations Date: 1992 Most agricultural civilizations downgraded the status and potential of women, at least according to modern Western standards and to the implicit standards of hunting-and-gathering societies. Agricultural civilizations were cha...

A History of Ancient Greece Author: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 Economy And Society In Classical GreeceTitle: Economy And Society In Classical GreeceAuthor: Robert A. Guisepi The economic and social structure of classical Greece, including thecolonies it sent out around the Mediterranean, had many fe...

In 1925, a death certificate from a Canadian doctor in Edmonton, Canada, gave the cause of death as 'talked to death'. He claimed that his patient would probably have made a recovery if he had not been bothered by relatives anxious about the content of his will. ***** In 1761, a peddler in Oxford, E...

The slavery controversy and the Civil War By the mid-19th century, most white Georgians, like most Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. When the Civil War came, most white Southerners, slave owner or not, joined in the defense of their common heritage...

Beginning And Progress Of The RenaissanceAuthor: Symonds, John AddingtonFourteenth To Sixteenth CenturyThe new birth of resurrection known as the "Renaissance" is usually considered to have begun in Italy in the fourteenth century, though some writers would date its origin from the reign of Frederic...