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World War One, Letter from Edward Luckert Monday - July 22 - 18Dearest: -It does seem as if we are never going to get any rest I know, but still I guess there's a remote chance sometime in the near future.If they wouldn't always give us the hardest work it would be a cinch, but they have never yet f...

England Under Edward The Sixth. History Of EnglandAuthor: Dickens, CharlesHenry the Eighth had made a will, appointing a council of sixteen togovern the kingdom for his son while he was under age (he was now only tenyears old), and another council of twelve to help them. The most powerful ofthe firs...

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...

Ancient Rome Caesar Conquers Gaul 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 permission) "Reme...

Statutes of Willliam The Conqueror (Stubbs' "Charters," p. 83-85.) Here is shown what William the king of the English, together With his princes, has established since the Conquest of England. 1. Firstly that, above all things, he wishes one God to lie venerated throughout his whole kingdom, one fai...

Ancient Mauritania Herodotus: The Histories, c. 430 B.C., Book IV.42-43: For my part I am astonished that men should ever have divided Libya, Asia, and Europe as they have, for they are exceedingly unequal. Europe extends the entire length of the other two, and for breadth will not even (as I think...

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 ...

Watt Improves The Steam-Engine Author: Arago, Francois Watt Improves The Steam-Engine 1769 No greater service has been rendered to the world through mechanical invention than that performed by James Watt in his improvement of the steam-engine. Watt was born at Greenock, Scotland, in 1736. During th...

countrykilled, died of wounds, orin prison{1}woundedprisoners or missing{2}deaths due to wartotal deathsAllied PowersBelgium12,000----76,00088,000Brazil9434,222----1,000British Commonwealth373,372475,047251,724{3}92,673466,000Australia23,36539,80332,393--24,000Canada37,47653,17410,888--38,000India24...

Canada, An Early History Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Canada to 1763 Prehistory to early European contact Pre-contact aboriginal history The first humans to make their homes in North America migrated from Asia. It is generally thought that this migration took place over a now-submerged land bridg...

Great Men Doing Great Things During the Middle Ages there was this Pope who really wanted to make love to the daughter of his chambermaid. So every night he would send his servant to the woman's bedside and as she slept he would whisper that it was God's will that the woman's daughter sleep with the...

Henry VIII And Anglicanism "Here I Take My Stand" Author: Lewis Hackett Date: 1992 The early English Reformation created an Anglican Church even more politically oriented than Lutheranism. The leader of the Reformation in England was not a dissenting priest but rather the reigning monarch, Henry V...