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Imperial Surrender Broadcastby Emperor Hirohito of Japan At noon on August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan delivered the following over the radio. Not only did this speech signify the end of World War II, but it meant the end of the Emperor’s status as a deity. This was the first time in history the...

Henry VIII And Anglicanism "Here I Take My Stand" Author: Lewis Hackett Date: 1992 The early English Reformation created an Anglican Church even more politically oriented than Lutheranism. The leader of the Reformation in England was not a dissenting priest but rather the reigning monarch, Henry V...

Terrorism In Early AmericaThe U.S. Wages War Against The BarbaryStates To End International Blackmail and Terrorism By Thomas JewettThe events of September 11, 2001 shocked the United States out of its complacency concerning its invulnerability. Even though the U.S. has the most powerful military ma...

Fall Of Maximilian Book: By Charles A. Fyffe Author: Fyffe, Charles A. By Charles A. Fyffe 1867 Compared with the Civil War in the United States, the contemporary French intervention in Mexico seems but a slight episode, little more than an eddy in the tremendous current of greater events. But as a ...

The United States Of America Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi This is the story of how the American Republic developed from colonial beginnings in the 16th century, when the first European explorers arrived, until modern times."We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more per...

Harold II (born 1022?, ruled 1066), the last king of the Anglo-Saxon period, reigned for only nine months. He was the son of the powerful Earl Godwine and was himself earl of East Anglia and of Wessex before he was chosen king. Most of the time from 1055 until 1066 was spent in conflict with other c...

Decline Of The Moorish Power In SpainAuthor: Dunham, S. A.Growth And Decay Of The Almoravide And Almohade Dynasties1086 - 1214During the early part of the eleventh century the western caliphate,which with its splendid capital of Cordova had flourished for almost threehundred years, entered upon a de...

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The Indus Valley And The Genesis Of South Asian Civilization Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Introduction Like Sumer, Egypt, and other early civilizations in the Middle East, civilizations first developed in East and South Asia in the vicinity of great river systems. When irrigated by the massive spring f...

Ancient Rome Letter Home of a Roman "University" Student, 44 BCE Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (...

Sumerian and Akkadian Myths Myths The Akkadian myths are in many ways dependent on Sumerian materials, but they show originality and a broader scope in their treatment of the earlier Sumerian concepts and forms; they address themselves more often to existence as a whole. Fairly close to Sumerian pro...

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4by Abraham LincolnThe Lincoln-Douglas Debates IILincoln and Douglas Fourth Joint Debate,At Charleston, September 18, 1858. Ladies and Gentelmen:--It will be very difficult for an audience solarge as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, andconsequently ...