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Sumerian Kish The once-majestic city of Kish is today only ruins. It lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) east of the site of Babylon in what is now Iraq. Inscriptions in the ruins state that it was "the first city founded after the Flood." As the traditional f...

Battle of Lexington and Concord On April 18, 1775 British General Thomas Gage in Boston was ordered to seize a cache of arms in Concord, a small town 15 miles away, and if possible, to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, two of the more outspoken rebel leaders. To accomplish this, Gage assembled ...

KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). The philosopher of the 1700s who ranks with Aristotle and Plato of ancient times is Immanuel Kant. He set forth a chain of explosive ideas that humanity has continued to ponder since his time. He created a link between the idealists--those who thought that all reality was...

World War One, Letter from Albert SmithFranceOct. 15, 1918.Mr. Mcgregor SmithCookeville, Tenn.Dear "Greg":I received a letter from you a few weeks ago but have not had time to answer for we have been exceedingly busy. We are speedy[?] clearing France of the Huns and making Europe safe for you Kids t...

Nathaniel Banks Of the 14 Union officers who received the Thanks of Congress during the Civil War, Nathaniel P. Banks was the least entitled. Serving under five different party labels during his political career, he rose from a childhood job in a cotton mill in his native Massachusetts-which earned ...

What was it like, that first time under fire? In real battle during the U.S. Civil War? Brothers of the native soil against brothers of the same good earth? Said (or wrote) an officer from Maine sometime after: "The behavior of those who were hit appeared to be singular; and, as there were so many o...

Japanese Just Before The Attack Pearl Harbor During The Attack The USS Shaw The Arizona The USS West Virginia Hickman Field Damage Arizona's Turret A View of the Ships Burning The Japanese Surrender Aboard The USS Missouri...

Plutarch's Lives: Caius Gracchus Caius Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother's enemies,or designing to render them more odious to the people, absentedhimself from the public assemblies, and lived quietly in his ownhouse, as if he were not only reduced for the present to liveunambitiousl...

A History of Ancient Greece Draco and Solon Laws Draco, 7th century BC also spelled DRACON, Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death--hence the continued use of the word draconian to describe repressive legal measures. The six junior arch...

Battle Of ToursAuthor: Creasy, Sir Edward ShepherdBattle Of Tours732When the Saracens had completed the conquest of Spain and all thatcountry was wholly under their dominion, they determined to extend theirauthority over the neighboring country of the Franks.Having crossed the Pyrenees they met with...

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...

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