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The Magna Carta Preamble: John , by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his bailiffs and liege subjects, greetings....

Jews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionAuthor: Merivale, CharlesJews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionA.D. 132 IntroductionThe successful revolt of the Maccabees against the bloody persecutionsof the Assyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, about B.C. 164, inaugurated aglo...

woman suffrage Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and Republican Rome, as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. When the franchise was widened, as it was in the United Kingdom in 1832, women continued to be denied all voting rights. ...

Plutarch's Lives: FLAMININUS What Titus Quintius Flamininus, whom we select as a parallel toPhilopoemen, was in personal appearance, those who are curious maysee by the brazen statue of him, which stands in Rome near that ofthe great Apollo, brought from Carthage, opposite to the CircusMaximus, with...

Women In The Revolutionary StruggleWar And Revolution In China And VietnamAuthor: Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992Document: Women In The Revolutionary StruggleEven more than in the nationalist movements in colonized areas such asIndia and Egypt, women were drawn in large numbers into violent, revolutio...

Washington's Farewell Address Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothe...

The first serious battle of the American Civil War was fought in Virginia at a place known as Manassas Junction. The Union would come to remember it as Bull Run. Two great armies were converging on the farm of Wilmer McClean and he hurried home trying to reach safety before the fighting began. Wilme...

The Germanic Tribes, and Huns F. Roy Willis, Professor of History University of California Robert A. Guisepi, Historian and Editor Upon the decline of Roman imperial power, Germanic tribes from the east took over vast lands once ruled from Rome. After long period of growth, development and sometimes...

Great Civil War In England, Execution Of Charles I Part 1 Author: Macaulay, Lord;Knight, Charles By Lord Macaulay 1649 No period of English history is more crowded with important events than that of the civil war. The intolerant reign of James I had brought him into conflict, not only with the rel...

Discovery Of Gold In CaliforniaAuthor: Hittell, John S.Discovery Of Gold In California1848Before the time of the great gold discovery of 1848, the metal had beenfound in California, but the mines from which it was taken were poor andyielded small returns for years of working. The discovery in 1848 i...

A great task faced Marcus Aurelius when he became the Roman emperor in AD 161, as successor to his uncle, Emperor Antonius Pius. Generations of luxury had made the patricians, or nobles, weak and selfish. The middle class was disappearing, and the working class was being reduced to a state of slaver...

A History of Ancient Greece Author: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 Economy And Society In Classical GreeceTitle: Economy And Society In Classical GreeceAuthor: Robert A. Guisepi The economic and social structure of classical Greece, including thecolonies it sent out around the Mediterranean, had many fe...