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LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996). United States citizens knew little about western North America when the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out in 1804. Twelve years earlier Captain Robert Gray, an American navigator, had sailed up the mouth of the...

Jews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionAuthor: Merivale, CharlesJews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionA.D. 132 IntroductionThe successful revolt of the Maccabees against the bloody persecutionsof the Assyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, about B.C. 164, inaugurated aglo...

Mexican Mythology Preliminary View Of The Aztec Civilization.Author: Prescott, William H. One of the most important duties of the priesthood was that of education,to which certain buildings were appropriated within the enclosure of theprincipal temple. Here the youth of both sexes, of the higher and...

Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages Indo-European Invasions triggered by Flooding of Black Sea 5600 B.C. Indo-Europeans (Aryan language) Nomadic tribes from Steppes of AsiaHerders and GrazersWarfare using horsesSwept into Old Europe, Middle East, India starting about 5,000 BCReligion of war and male...

The American Civil War, John Brown The importance of John Brown rests in the fact that prior to his attack upon the armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, the southern army had been almost non-existent. However, after the attack, southerners became worried that northern agitators would stir up the blac...

The American Civil War, Jefferson Davis Inaugural Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens:- CALLED to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the provisional government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the ...

NUMA POMPILIUS by Plutarch Though the pedigrees of noble families of Rome go back in exact form asfar as Numa Pompilius, yet there is great diversity amongst historiansconcerning the time in which he reigned; a certain writer calledClodius, in a book of his entitled Strictures on Chronology, avers t...

An Overview of the Paleolithic Prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. Robert A. Guisepi Date:2000 The Stone Age is a prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone too...

Foundation Of VeniceAuthor: Hodgkin, Thomas; Ruskin, JohnThomas Hodgkin The terrible invaders, made wrathful and terrible by the resistance ofAquileia, streamed through the trembling cities of Venetia. Each earlierstage in the itinerary shows a town blotted out by their truly Tartar geniusfor destr...

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...

Mary Chesnut A Diary from Dixie,as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut,Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senatorfrom South Carolina, 1859-1861,and Afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-Generalin the Confederate Army: I do not pretend to go to sleep. How can I? If Anderson does no...

Women's RightsAuthor: Wallbank;Taylor;Bailkey;Jewsbury;Lewis;HackettDate: 1992Document: Women's RightsThis statement on women's rights was issued July 7, 1969, by Redstockings, afeminist organization.I. After centuries of individual and preliminary politicalstruggle, women are uniting to achieve the...