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HUMAN ORIGINS The International History Project Robert Guisepi Date: 2001 In the 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Plato somewhat flippantly defined "man" as an erect and featherless biped. Subsequently Diogenes the Cynic, in an equally flippant fashion, displayed a plucked chicken and declared,...

The Middle Ages Date: 1992 Government In Germany And Italy When the Carolingian kingdom of the East Franks proved incapable of coping with the attacks of Magyar horsemen in the late ninth and early tenth centuries, the task was taken over by the tribal leaders (or dukes) of the Saxons, Bavarians, ...

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 ...

Consolidation Of GermanyAuthor: Lowe, CharlesConsolidation Of Germany1881 - 1890In European statesmanship the master mind of the latter half of thenineteenth century was unquestionably Bismarck. The unification of Germany,consequent on the war with France, was a brilliant stroke; but theconsolidatio...

The State The Objects Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow The Objects Of Government 1514. Character of the Subject. - Political interest and controversy centre nowhere more acutely than in the question, What are the proper objects of government? This is one of those difficult questions upon whi...

Great Men Doing Great Things During the Middle Ages there was this Pope who really wanted to make love to the daughter of his chambermaid. So every night he would send his servant to the woman's bedside and as she slept he would whisper that it was God's will that the woman's daughter sleep with the...

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Author: Wallbank; Taylor; Bailkey; Jewsbury; Lewis; Hackett Date: 1992 Industrialization: The First Phase Most products people in the industrialized nations use today are turned out swiftly by the process of mass production, by people (and sometimes, robots) working on assemb...

Ancient Rome Spartacus 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 (Re-printed by permission) "Remember, Roman...

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...

The History of Judaism A History of Judaism Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron: Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions, Columbia University, 1930–63. Author of A Social and Religious History of the Jews...

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...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms chang...