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Publius Aelius Hadrianus, called Hadrian, was Roman emperor from AD 117 until 138. He regarded his 20-year reign as a golden age of peace and prosperity, comparable to that of his great predecessor Augustus more than 100 years earlier (see Augustus). Monuments to Hadrian's reign are the Tivoli villa...

HISPANIC AMERICANS Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Story Of Hispanics In The Americas In the United States, before there was New England, there was New Spain; and before there was Boston, Mass., there was Santa Fe, N.M. The teaching of American history normally emphasizes the founding ...

Cosmogony and cosmology Thorkild Jacobsen: Professor of Assyriology,Harvard University, 1962-74. Author of The Sumerian Kinglist; "Mesopotamia"in The Intellectual History of Ancient Man Reprinted by Permission Though the "Eridu Genesis" may have come close to treating existence as a whole, a true co...

A History of Ancient Greece Demaratus on the Spartan Way of Living Introduction: Herodotos presented this dialogue (Bk 7, trans. G. Rawlinson; revised, M. Markowski) between Demaratos (a Greek) and Xerxes, Emperor of Persia. Xerxes followed Darius in power and continued the war against the Greeks. ...

Ancient Rome was a powerful civilization that existed from 753 BCE to 476 CE. It was located in the central part of the Italian peninsula and was known for its military prowess, political and legal systems, and architectural and engineering achievements. Ancient Rome is considered to be one of the m...

Sojourner Truth 1797(?)-l883 Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionists-for she herself had once been a slave. In the 1820s, when still quite a young woman, she escaped from her New York owner after being brutally treated and sold awa...

John Buford(1826-1863) Within six months of his having played a key role in the opening of the battle of Gettysburg, cavalryman John Buford was dead of typhoid fever. The Kentucky-born soldier had moved to Illinois before being appointed to West Point. Graduating in 1848 he was posted to the dragoo...

Mesopotamian/Sumerian Calendar In Mesopotamia the solar year was divided into two seasons, the "summer," which included the barley harvests in the second half of May or in the beginning of June, and the "winter," which roughly corresponded to today's fall-winter. Three seasons (Assyria) and four sea...

A History of England The Kings and Queens of England Saxon 802-839 Egbert 839-858 Ethelwulf 858-860 Ethelbald 860-865 Ethelbert 865-871 Ethelred 871-899 Alfred the Great 901-924 Edward the Elder 924-939 Athelstan 939-946 Edmund I 946-955 Edred 955-959 Edwy 959-975 Edgar 975-978 Edward the Martyr ...

Calvin Is Driven From Paris Author: Fairbairn, A. M.;Audin, Jean M. V. By A. M. Fairbairn He Makes Geneva The Stronghold Of Protestantism, 1533 Among what may be called the second generation of Protestant reformers, the great leader was John Calvin. By his writings, and by his directive and admin...

Persia Darius I Author: Grote, George Darius I, called the Great, tells the story of the overthrow of Bardiya and of the first year of his own rule in detail in his famous royal inscription cut on a rock face at the base of Bisitun mountain, a few miles east of modern Kermanshah. Six leading Achaeme...

The Dynamic Culture of the Middle Ages The European High Middle Ages, which lasted from about 1050 to 1300, evoke for many people romantic images of knights in shining armor, magnificent castles, and glorious cathedrals. And to many people, the word medieval (Latin medium aevum; "middle age") wrong...