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The first serious battle of the American Civil War was fought in Virginia at a place known as Manassas Junction. The Union would come to remember it as Bull Run. Two great armies were converging on the farm of Wilmer McClean and he hurried home trying to reach safety before the fighting began. Wilme...

World War One, Kaiser Wilhelm II b. Jan. 27, 1859, Potsdam, near Berlind. June 4, 1941, Doorn, Neth. German IN FULL FRIEDRICH WILHELM VIKTOR ALBERT, German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918, known for his frequently militaristic manner as well as for ...

Babylonia, A history of ancient Babylon (Babylonia) including its cities, laws, kings and legacy to civilization. The International History Project 2004 The Babylonian civilization, which endured from the 18th until the 6th century BC, was, like the Sumerian that preceded it, urban in character, alt ...

The Akkadians Portions of this work contributed by Robert A. Guisepi and F. Roy Williams, University of California Akkad and the Arts Akkadian period Sargon of Akkad's (reigned c. 2334-c. 2279 BC) unification of the Sumerian city-states and creation of a first Mesopotamian empire profoundly affected...

The Race to Build the Bomb At the start of World War Two the only countries capable of making the bomb were Germany, Japan and the United States. When it came to doing atomic research and development Germany had a good organization. Japan had a good organization. The United States had a mess. But......

The History Of FranceHistory Of Europe During The Middle AgesAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part FiveTwenty years before the first crusade Gregory VII. had projected thescheme of embodying Europe in arms against Asia - a scheme worthy of hisdaring mind, and which, perhaps, was never forgotten by Urban II., w...

Persia Darius as an administrator. Author: Grote, George Although Darius consolidated and added to the conquests of his predecessors, it was as an administrator that he made his greatest contribution to Persian history. He completed the organization of the empire into satrapies, initiated by Cyrus t...

ETRUSCANS A History of the Etruscan people including their cities, art, society, rulers and contributions to civilization By: Robert Guisepi 2002 Language and Writing Etruscan, the third great language of culture in Italy after Greek and Latin, does not, as noted above, survive in any literary work...

Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address Washington, D.C.March 4, 1865 This theologically intense speech has been widely acknowledged as one of the most remarkable documents in American history. The London Spectator said of it, "We cannot read it without a renewed conviction that it is the noblest p...

THE REFORMATION Europe's Search For Stability One of the greatest of all revolutions was the 16th-century religious revolt known as the Reformation. This stormy, often brutal, conflict separated the Christians of Western Europe into Protestants and Catholics. So far-reaching were the results of the ...

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard(1818-1893) The services of "The Hero of Fort Sumter," Pierre G.T. Beauregard, were not utilized to their fullest due to bad blood between the Confederate general and Jefferson Davis. The native Louisianan had graduated second in the 1838 class at West Point. There h...

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...