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A History of Ancient Greece THUCYDIDES (460?-404? BC). As long as the subject of history is studied, the fame of the Athenian Thucydides will be secure. His stature as an historian has never been surpassed and rarely equaled. In his 'History of the Peloponnesian War', he accomplished what few other...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Date: 1992 Ancient Greece and Ethics Early Greece was the birthplace of Western philosophical ethics. The ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who flourished in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, will be discussed in the next section. The sudden...

Huns And Their Western MigrationAuthor: MarcellinusHuns And Their Western MigrationA.D. 374-376IntroductionThe Huns, whose incursions into Europe constituted the first "yellowperil," were a nomadic Mongolian race. In the fourth century before Christthey successfully invaded China. From the country, ...

LEE, Robert E. (1807-70). The Confederacy's greatest soldier, Robert E. Lee, was descended from an old and honored family. Several of Lee's forebears had played distinguished roles in Virginia's history. His father was the Revolutionary War hero Light-Horse Harry Lee, a friend of George Washington. ...

Mayan Glyphs The Peoples And Civilizations Of The Americas Author: Michael Schwartz Date: 1999 Document: Deciphering The Maya Glyphs Of all the peoples of ancient America, the Maya developed the most complex system of writing to record their history, religion, philosophy, and politics. Maya hierogl...

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...

In the olden days in Germany and Austria, some people kept a frog, and a tiny ladder, in a jar half-filled with water for predicting the weather. If the frog stayed put rain would come. But if the frog climbed up the ladder the sun would come out.**********The hole in the doughnut was created in 184...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi The Rise And Triumph Of Christianity The Rise And Triumph Of Christianity Through the long centuries that witnessed the decline of the Roman Empire and the invasions of the Germans, an increasingly powerful force became evident in the Mediterranea...

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...

Lewis Addison Armistead(1817-1863) Lewis A. Armistead nearly scuttled his military career when he broke a plate over the head of fellow cadet Jubal A. Early and was expelled from West Point. He was, however, commissioned directly into the infantry in 1839 and served in the Mexican War, being wounded...

Recantation Of GalileoAuthor: Lodge, Sir OliverRecantation Of Galileo1633From Socrates to Galileo, as from the Church's early martyrs to itslatest victims, runs the same story of conflict between the free human spiritand the repressive environment of custom acting through personal will orthrough con...

The Indus Valley And The Genesis Of South Asian Civilization Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Introduction Like Sumer, Egypt, and other early civilizations in the Middle East, civilizations first developed in East and South Asia in the vicinity of great river systems. When irrigated by the massive spring f...