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The United States Congress The Senate The U. S. Senate is one of the two houses of the legislature of the United States, established in 1789 under the Constitution. Each state elects two senators for six-year terms, the terms of about one-third of the Senate membership expiring every two years. The...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IVA new generation had risen up in Lombardy since the peace of Constance,and the prerogatives reserved by that treaty to the empire were so seldomcalled into action, that few cities were disposed to recollect theirexistence. They denominated themselves...

Age Of Fable Or Beauties Of Mythology Author: Bullfinch, Thomas The Druids - Iona Druids.The Druids were the priests or ministers of religion among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany. Our information respecting them is borrowed from notices in the Greek and Roman writers, comp...

Holy Roman Empire, TheBook: Chapter I: Introductory.Author: Bryce, James Page One From Christmas Day in AD 800 until Aug. 6, 1806, there existed in Europe a peculiar political institution called the Holy Roman Empire. The name of the empire as it is known today did not come into general use until 12...

The History Of FranceHistory Of Europe During The Middle AgesAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part FiveTwenty years before the first crusade Gregory VII. had projected thescheme of embodying Europe in arms against Asia - a scheme worthy of hisdaring mind, and which, perhaps, was never forgotten by Urban II., w...

A History of Ancient Greece Hellenistic PoliticsGreece And The Hellenistic WorldAuthor: R.A. GuisepiDate: 1992 The collapse of Athens opened the way for Spartan domination of the Greekmainland. During the war, Sparta had accepted Persian help, particularly onthe seas, and in return it handed over co...

The Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine, was the fruition of early American policy. There had long been a deep-seated conviction on the part of the people of the United States that the opportunities of a hard-won freedom would be threatened by the ambitions of European powers and that the aims of th...

The American Civil War, Gettysburg 1863 Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 On June 24, 1863, General Robert E. Lee led his Confederate Army across the Potomac River and headed towards Pennsylvania. In response to this threat President Lincoln replaced his army commander, General Joseph Hooker, with Gene...

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke ...

Ancient Egypt, Menes 2925 B.C. also spelled MENA, MENI, OR MIN, first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single, centralized monarchy. Manetho, a 3rd-century-bc Egyptian historian, called him Menes; the 5th-century-bc Greek historian Herodotus refer...

Travels Of Marco PoloBook: PrologueAuthor: Polo, MarcoPrologue Great princes, emperors and kings, dukes and marquises, counts, knights,and burgesses! and people of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of thevarious races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of theWorld, take t...

Horatio Nelson and Wellington In the center of London's Trafalgar Square stands a column topped by a statue of Admiral Nelson. The square was named in honor of Lord Nelson's victory in the battle of Trafalgar (1805). Nelson was one of England's great naval heroes. His brilliant victories during the ...