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A History of Ancient Greece The Greek GeniusAuthor: Robert GuisepiDate: 1998The Greeks were the first to formulate many of the Western world'sfundamental concepts in politics, philosophy, science, and art. How was itthat a relative handful of people could bequeath such a legacy tocivilization? The d...

The European Dream Of Progress And EnlightenmentAuthor: WallbankDate: 1992The Reaction Against ReasonThe eighteenth century was primarily an "Age of Reason," but in thelatter decades there was a general reaction against rationalism. One form ofthe reaction came in philosophy with a new idealism, in ...

The Origins Of Civilizations The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Middle East By 4000 B.C.: The Causes Of Civilization As you have seen, one reason that civilization first appeared in the Middle East was because agriculture had taken ho...

The American Civil War, Jefferson Davis Inaugural Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens:- CALLED to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the provisional government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the ...

Toward The Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: VariousDate: 1992 Edited By: R. A. GuisepiThe Gulf WarIntroductionTime present and time pastAre both present in time future ...Time past and time futureWhat might have been and what has beenPoint to one end, which is always time present.T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norto...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Divus Claudius, c. 110 CE. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. [Arkenberg Introduction]. Rolfe's annotations appear in brackets with no attribution; mine are noted. I have also replaced modern place names, as used by Rolfe, with those in use by the Roma ...

FLOOD LEGENDS In the traditions of most ancient civilizations there can be found a legend concerning a flood of such enormous proportions that it is believed to have covered the whole Earth. Such was the destructive force of this flood that few land animals and plants survived it. For readers in Wes...

World War Two John Graham Royde-Smith: Associate Editor, History, Encyclopædia Britannica, London. Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2006 On Sept. 1, 1939 , Germany invaded Poland . On September 3 England and France demanded that Germany withdraw its troops. When Germany refused England and France d ...

In 496 A.D., Chlodovocar (Clovis or Louis), the founder of the Frankish power that would develop into modern France and Germany, converted to Catholic Christianity from heathenism. This event held high historical significance. Had Clovis, like other Germanic kings, embraced Arianism, he would have b...

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...

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...

World War One, Gavrilo Pincip Gavrilo Pincip b. July 25 [July 13, Old Style], 1894, Obljaj, Bosniad. April 28, 1918, Theresienstadt, Austria South Slav nationalist who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his consort, Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg (née Ch...