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History Filipo Brunelleschi Dufay's stunning motet Nuper Rosarum Flores holds a particularly important place in the history of Florence. As its text relates, Dufays motet was composed for the consecration of Florence's great Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, known colloquially as Il Duomo on the Fe...

Ancient Egypt, Part Two EGYPT'S HISTORY Robert Guisepi, 2004 The Valley of the Nile NEW KINGDOM The 13th Dynasty was a time of weak rulers—50 or 60 in 150 years. The Second Intermediate period (14th-17th dynasties) was again a time of divided rule in Egypt. The Hyksos, foreign invaders from west...

Ancient Rome The Roman Way of Declaring War Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permis...

The Amorites were member of an ancient Semitic-speaking people who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about 2000 to about 1600 BC. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400-c. 2000 BC), the Amorites were equated with the West, though their true place of origin was most li...

GRANT, ULYSSES S. (1822-1885). 18th President of the U.S. (1869-1877). Nicknamed"Unconditional Surrender" Grant after cooly demanding "immediate and unconditionalsurrender" at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi (May 18 - July 4, 1863; surrendered on July4, 1863). 29,000 rebel troops surrendered, th...

A History of Ancient Greece GREEK LITERATURE The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Gr...

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. ...

American Civil War, Submarines The next U.S. attempt at submarine warfare came during the Civil War (1861-65) when the Confederate States resorted to "unconventional" methods to overcome the Union Navy's superior strength, exerted in a blockade of Southern ports. In 1862 Horace L. Hunley of Mobile,...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VState of Italy after the Extinction of the House of Suabia - Conquest ofNaples by Charles of Anjou - The Lombard Republics become severally subject toPrinces or Usurpers - The Visconti of Milan - Their Aggrandizement - Declineof the Imperial Authority ...

The Americas, Origins Of American SocietiesAuthor: Stearns, Peter NDate: 2001Origins Of American SocietiesMost archeologists agree that the Americas were originally populated bypeoples from Asia, who moved during the period of the last Ice Age when thelevel of the oceans fell. Possibly due to increa...

Plutarch's Lives: Caius Gracchus Caius Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother's enemies,or designing to render them more odious to the people, absentedhimself from the public assemblies, and lived quietly in his ownhouse, as if he were not only reduced for the present to liveunambitiousl...

Nomadic Challenges And Civilized Responses Edited By: R. A.Guisepi The Rise And Spread Of Pastoral Nomadism The domestication of animals also made possible an alternative basis for the support and organization of human societies - nomadic pastoralism. We do not know when genuinely nomadic societie...