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Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Author: Pears, Edwin Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Plunder Of The Sacred Relics, A.D. 1204 In the treaty arranged at the end of the Third Crusade (1192) it was stipulated that all hostilities between the Christians and the Moslems should cea...

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...

b. Sept. 15?, AD 53, Italica, Baetica [now in Spain]d. Aug. 8/9, 117, Selinus, Cilicia [now in Turkey] Latin IN FULL CAESAR DIVI NERVAE FILIUS NERVA TRAIANUS OPTIMUS AUGUSTUS, also called ( 9798) CAESAR NERVA TRAIANUS GERMANICUS, ORIGINAL NAME MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS, Roman emperor (AD 98-117), the f...

Bach Lays The Foundation Of Modern Music 1723 Date:2004 Our first recognized triumph in the marvelous modern development of music, the first great masterpiece which taught the world the beauty of which the art is capable, was Bach's Das Wohltemperirte Clavier. The production marks, therefore, "the...

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT. Passed by Congress in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act has been called the most momentous piece of legislation in the United States before the American Civil War. It set in motion events that led directly to the conflict over slavery. In January 1854, with the support of President ...

Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra Written by Edith Hamilton, W.W. Norton Inc. 1986 now in the Library of Congress and reprinted by permission b. 69 BCd. Aug. 30, 30 BC, Alexandria "She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day, and because of the third she destroyed herself." Cleopatra Ptolemy was the d...

Mamelukes Usurp Power In EgyptAuthor: Muir, Sir WilliamMamelukes Usurp Power In Egypt1250From A.D. 969 to 1171 the Arabian dynasty of caliphs called Fatimites -because they professed to trace their descent from Fatima, the daughter ofMahomet - reigned in Egypt. Their downfall was due to their own de...

Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine To the President of the United States (James Monroe)Monticello, October 24, 1823 DEAR SIR, -- The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us...

A History of England ARTHURIAN LEGEND The virtues of knighthood were more completely embodied in King Arthur, the legendary prince of the ancient Britons, than in any other figure in literature. According to legend, Arthur was the son of King Uther Pendragon. Immediately after his birth, Arthur was...

Catherine The Great Assumes Power In Russia HackettDate: 1992Document: Catherine The Great Assumes Power In RussiaCatherine became empress in 1762 in a coup which overthrew her estrangedhusband, Peter III. This selection is from her own written account of theepisode.The Hetman [Razumovsky,] Volkonsk...

Wycliffe Translates The Bible Into EnglishAuthor: Smyth, Paterson J.Wycliffe Translates The Bible Into English1382 It may safely be said that no greater service has been rendered at onceto religion and to literature than the translation of the Bible into theEnglish tongue. This achievement did not i...

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...