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The Spread Of Peoples And Civilizations, New ZealandAuthor: Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992The New Zealand Landfall And The Development Of Maori CulturePerhaps as early as the 8th century A.D., the crews of canoes or raftsfrom the Society Islands and other parts of eastern Polynesia had sailedthousand...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 The evacuation from Dunkirk For the Allies, the arc of the westward German advance from the Ardennes to the Somme severed all communication between their northern and southern forces. The Allied armies in the north, having fallen back from the Dyl...

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4by Abraham LincolnThe Lincoln-Douglas Debates IILincoln and Douglas Fourth Joint Debate,At Charleston, September 18, 1858. Ladies and Gentelmen:--It will be very difficult for an audience solarge as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, andconsequently ...

A History of Ancient Greece Battle Of Marathon Author: Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd Part I. B.C. 490 Introduction Marathon! A name to conjure up such visions of glory as few battlefields have ever shown. Heroism and determination on the part of the Athenians, supported by the small but ever noble ba...

KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). The philosopher of the 1700s who ranks with Aristotle and Plato of ancient times is Immanuel Kant. He set forth a chain of explosive ideas that humanity has continued to ponder since his time. He created a link between the idealists--those who thought that all reality was...

Dutch Settlement Of New YorkAuthor: Valentine, David T.Dutch Settlement Of New York1614Greater fame ordinarily attaches to the discovery of some vast region ofthe earth than to the finding or exploring of a limited coast, district, orriver-course. There are, however, some instances in which geograph...

LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996). United States citizens knew little about western North America when the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out in 1804. Twelve years earlier Captain Robert Gray, an American navigator, had sailed up the mouth of the...

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, ...

Founding Of The House Of Hapsburg Author: Coxe, William Founding Of The House Of Hapsburg1273 The house of Hapsburg - also called the house of Austria - owes its origin and firm establishment to the most celebrated of the Hapsburgs, a German princely family who derived their name from Hapsburg cast...

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...

Latin America: Reform Or Revolt Early Latin AmericaAuthor: Stearns, PeterDate: 1999 After World War Two, Latin America shared many of the problems experienced by the developing countries of the non-European world. Formerly competitive economies such as those of Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil have fa...

Foundation Of VeniceAuthor: Hodgkin, Thomas; Ruskin, JohnThomas Hodgkin The terrible invaders, made wrathful and terrible by the resistance ofAquileia, streamed through the trembling cities of Venetia. Each earlierstage in the itinerary shows a town blotted out by their truly Tartar geniusfor destr...