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Terrorism In Early AmericaThe U.S. Wages War Against The BarbaryStates To End International Blackmail and Terrorism By Thomas JewettThe events of September 11, 2001 shocked the United States out of its complacency concerning its invulnerability. Even though the U.S. has the most powerful military ma...

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...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Dissension And Separation Of The Greek And Roman ChurchesAuthor: Tozer, Henry Fanshawe Dissension And Separation Of The Greek And Roman Churches1054The Eastern or Greek Christian Church, now known as the Holy Orthodox,Catholic, Apostolic, Oriental ...

Cuneiform Cuneiform was the system of writing used most extensively in the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform was employed for writing a number of languages from about the end of the 4th millennium BC until about the 1st century BC.The earliest attested documents in cuneiform were written in Sumerian, t...

Ancient Egypt, Thutmose I and Thutmose II Lacking a surviving heir, Amenhotep I was succeeded by one of his generals, Thutmose I (ruled 1493-c. 1482 BC), who married his own full sister Ahmose. In the south Thutmose destroyed the Karmah state. He inscribed a rock as a boundary marker, later confirm...

The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Crash of Hell Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Excerpts From Chamberlain's Writings Ten minutes had not passed. Suddenly the thunder of artillery and crash of iron that had all the while been roaring over the Round Top crests stopped short. We u...

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 ...

The State The Earliest Forms Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow Part II. 18. Of the theories of the origination of government in individual lawgiving or in divine dictate, it is sufficient to say that the one exaggerates the part played by human choice, and the other the part played by man's im...

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Wycliffe Translates The Bible Into EnglishAuthor: Smyth, Paterson J.Wycliffe Translates The Bible Into English1382 It may safely be said that no greater service has been rendered at onceto religion and to literature than the translation of the Bible into theEnglish tongue. This achievement did not i...

KU KLUX KLAN Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi A secret terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan led underground resistance against the civil rights and political power of newly freed slaves during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War. The Klan's goal was to reestablish the ...

History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians Book: Part II: The Rise Of Assyria And Its Struggles With Kassite Babylonia Author: Godspeed, George Times Of Tiglathpileser I. 1100 B.C. 133. The splendid extension of Assyrian authority to the northwest, achieved by Shalmaneser I. and his successors (sect....