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Newton The European Dream Of Progress And EnlightenmentSource: H. S. Thayer and John H. Randall, eds., Newton's Philosophy of Nature(New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1953), pp. 3-5.Date: 1992Document: Newton, Rule III Of ReasoningThis selection, from Book III of the Principia, illustrates Newton'sco...

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A History of England Alfred the Great (848?–899) The course of English history would have been very different without King Alfred, renowned both as a statesman and a warrior. He is justly called "the Great." The Saxon Kingdoms and Alfred's Rise During Alfred's time, England consisted of four small S...

THE ARTS Various Author Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Paintings and power shovels, sonatas and submarines, dramas and dynamos--they all have one thing in common. They are fashioned by people. They are artificial, in contrast to everything that is natural--plants, animals, minerals. The average 20th-centu...

Revolutionary Movements In GermanyAuthor: Maurice, C. EdmundPart I.1848Popular demonstrations in various parts of Germany in the greatrevolutionary year 1848 were no doubt partly due to the outbreaks in Franceand elsewhere, but it is also apparent that discontent at home had been longturning the peo...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Domitianus, c. 110 C.E. I. DOMITIAN was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of November of the year when his father was Consul-elect and was about to enter on the office in the following month [October 24, 51 C.E.], in a street of the sixt...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization The Hittite empire to c. 1180 BC Principal archaeological sites of Anatolia and northern Syria to c. 1340 BC. It is possible that the branch of the Hittite royal family that gained control i...

Women's RightsAuthor: Wallbank;Taylor;Bailkey;Jewsbury;Lewis;HackettDate: 1992Document: Women's RightsThis statement on women's rights was issued July 7, 1969, by Redstockings, afeminist organization.I. After centuries of individual and preliminary politicalstruggle, women are uniting to achieve the...

Harvey Discovers The Circulation Of The Blood Author: Huxley, Thomas H. Harvey Discovers The Circulation Of The Blood 1616 Contemporary with Galileo, and ranking but little below him in influence upon the modern world, was William Harvey. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, combine...

War Between China And JapanAuthor: MacGowan, J.By J. MacGowan1894It might almost be said of the situation in the Far East that the mainquestion is whether Korea should be the Ireland of China or the Ireland ofJapan, and this virtually was what led to the war in 1894 between those twoPowers. The Japa...

Ancient Egypt, Menes 2925 B.C. also spelled MENA, MENI, OR MIN, first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single, centralized monarchy. Manetho, a 3rd-century-bc Egyptian historian, called him Menes; the 5th-century-bc Greek historian Herodotus refer...

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...