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England Under Mary. History Of EnglandAuthor: Dickens, CharlesThe Duke of Northumberland was very anxious to keep the young king'sdeath a secret, in order that he might get the two princesses into his power.But the Princess Mary, being informed of that event as she was on her way toLondon to see her...

Persia Darius as an administrator. Author: Grote, George Although Darius consolidated and added to the conquests of his predecessors, it was as an administrator that he made his greatest contribution to Persian history. He completed the organization of the empire into satrapies, initiated by Cyrus t...

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...

Japanese Repel The TartarsAuthor: Parker, Edward HarperJapanese Repel The Tartars1281Kublai Khan, the first of the Mongol emperors who reigned at Peking, andKameyama, the ninetieth emperor - as reputed - of Japan, are supposed to havecome to their respective thrones in the same year, 1260. At this p...

by Plutarch Marcus Crassus, whose father had borne the office of a censor, andreceived the honor of a triumph, was educated in a little housetogether with his two brothers, who both married in their parents'lifetime; they kept but one table amongst them; all which,perhaps, was not the least reason o ...

History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians Book: Part III: The Ascendancy Of Assyria Author: Godspeed, George Last Days Of Splendor Ashurbanipal. 668-626 B.C. 248. Upon the death of Esarhaddon the arrangements made by him for the succession were smoothly and promptly carried out; the empire passed to...

Joshua ChamberlainLying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describingthe Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horsestumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & at ...

Sumerian Homes The earliest Sumerian houses were built of bundles of reeds but after cities began to develop, sun baked mud brick was used. These mud brick houses were more permanent and larger than the reed dwellings.Reed built house The houses in the cities were very close together with most shari...

World War One, Otto Von Bismarck b. April 1, 1815, Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia [Germany]d. July 30, 1898, Friedrichsruh, near Hamburg OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD, FÜRST (PRINCE) VON BISMARCK, GRAF (COUNT) VON BISMARCK-SCHÖNHAUSEN, HERZOG (DUKE) VON LAUENBURG was prime minister of Prussia (1862-73, 1873-...

Discovery Of Diamonds In Africa Author: Williams, Gardner F. M.A. Discovery Of Diamonds In Africa 1867 The story of the Kimberley diamond-field is one of the romances of the industrial world. Any chemist can tell us that the diamond is pure crystallized carbon; but the wisest geologist cannot make ...

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION - JUNE 20, 1676: The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676) On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely establi...

The American Civil War, Daniel Butterfield (1831 - 1901)Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Thoroughly hated by his fellow officers, Daniel Butterfield was wounded at Gettysburg and "fortunately for him and to the joy of all has gone home." A New York businessman with the American Express company, he had ...