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Great Civil War In England, Execution Of Charles I, Part 2 Author: Macaulay, Lord;Knight, Charles By Charles Knight The drawbridge of Hurst castle ^1 is lowered during the night, December 17, 1648, and the tramp of a troop of horse is heard by the wakeful prisoner. He calls for his attendant Herbe...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IIIThe contributions granted by cortes were assessed and collected byrespectable individuals (hombres buenos) of the several towns and villages. ^uThis repartition, as the French call it, of direct taxes is a matter of thehig...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IVNo people in a half-civilized state of society have a full practicalsecurity against particular acts of arbitrary power. They were more commonperhaps in Castile than in any other European monarchy which professed to befree....

Mesopotamia The International History Project Date: 2003 The achievements of ancient Mesopotamia The world of mathematics and astronomy owes much to the Babylonians--for instance, the sexagesimal system for the calculation of time and angles, which is still practical because of the multiple divisibi...

Sumerian Inscription Umma and Lagash The Sumerian cities of Lagash and Umma were approximately 20 miles apart. The following writings were discovered on clay cylinders and date from about 2500 BC. The events here record Entemena, king of Lagash and his uncle, Eannatum, who had been king earlier and ...

Discovery Of Gold In CaliforniaAuthor: Hittell, John S.Discovery Of Gold In California1848Before the time of the great gold discovery of 1848, the metal had beenfound in California, but the mines from which it was taken were poor andyielded small returns for years of working. The discovery in 1848 i...

Ancient Egypt, An Overview The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization, which many regard as one of the fountainheads of Western culture, cannot be established with certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that early dwellers in the Nile Valley were influenced by cultures of the Near East, but t...

Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages Indo-European Invasions triggered by Flooding of Black Sea 5600 B.C. Indo-Europeans (Aryan language) Nomadic tribes from Steppes of AsiaHerders and GrazersWarfare using horsesSwept into Old Europe, Middle East, India starting about 5,000 BCReligion of war and male...

The Postclassical Era Date: 1992 The Byzantine Empire unfolded initially as part of the greater Roman Empire and then, as this framework shattered with Roman decline, took on a life of its own particularly from the reign of the emperor Justinian onward. During its formative period, which lasted thr...

Description Of Elizabethan England Author: Harrison, William Date: 1577 Chapter I Of Degrees Of People In The Commonwealth Of Elizabethan England [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5.] ^1 [Footnote 1: These references are to the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicles. The mod...

Teutonic Knights: Their Organization And History Title: Teutonic Knights: Their Organization And History Author: Woodhouse, F. C. 1190 - 1809 Scarcely less renowned than the Knights Templars, the Teutonic Knights carried the spirit and traditions of the great military religious orders of the Middle...

The American Civil War, George Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876)Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Thank you to Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War for this fine work.Although better known for his Indian fighting, George Custer compiled a creditable record as a cavalry leader in the latter part of the ...