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Australia And The Islands Of The Sea Author: Larkin, Dunton Introduction Announcement. It is now conceded by all educators that school instruction should be supplemented by reading matter suitable for use by the pupil both in the school and in the home. Whoever looks for such reading, however, must...

Invention Of The TelegraphAuthor: Cornell, Alonzo B.Invention Of The Telegraph1844After the experiments of Franklin that did so much to advance the studyof electrical phenomena, and to suggest practical applications of electricity,physicists in all countries occupied themselves with investigations a...

Dante Composes The "Divina Commedia"Author: Church, Richard WilliamDante Composes The "Divina Commedia"1300 - 1318Out of what may be called the civil and religious storm-and-stress periodthrough which the Middle passed into the modern age, there came a greatliterary foregleam of the new life upon wh...

De Soto Discovers The Mississippi Author: Abbott, John S. C. De Soto Discovers The Mississippi 1541From the eastern coast of Florida the Spaniards made early explorations of the interior until they reached the Mississippi River. Florida, which was discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513, was soon v...

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......

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 American Civil War, Daniel Butterfield (1831 - 1901)Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Thoroughly hated by his fellow officers, Daniel Butterfield was wounded at Gettysburg and "fortunately for him and to the joy of all has gone home." A New York businessman with the American Express company, he had ...

Asia's First Civilizations - India And ChinaAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.Date: 1992IntroductionLike Sumer, Egypt, and other early civilizations in the Middle East,civilizations first developed in East and South Asia in the vicinity of greatriver systems. When irrigated by the massive spring floods of th...

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...

The American Civil War, Ulysses S. GrantEdited by: Robert Guisepi2002 From humble beginnings, Ulysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead them to victory. So great was his popularity that the people twice elected him to the presidency.His Birth and BoyhoodUlysse...

PHILOSOPHY Edited By; Robert Guisepi An analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs PhilosophersThere was a time when many of the subjects now taught in school were all part of a very broad area called philosophy. Physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, sociology, governme...

Harpist From UrBetween two mighty riversThe Fertile Crescent expands Hanging Gardens Babel Tower Gates to Eden An old indigenous manCreated a harp of his own Arched bough, silver and gold Lapis lazuli, ivory and pearl Sumerian Queen Shub-AdAsleep in eternal silence The harpist from the Royal Tomb D...