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Burials in the Mausoleum of Augustus Marcus Claudius Marcellus42-23 B.C.son of Augustus' sister OctaviaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa63-12 B.C.husband of Augustus' daughter JuliaOctavia>63-11sister of AugustusDrusus Maior38-9son of Livia, stepson of AugustusLucius Iulius Caesar17 B.C.-2 A.D.grandson of...

A History of Ancient Greece Ancient History Sourcebook:Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE):The Spartan War Machine, c. 375 BCE In the first instance, the ephors announce in proclamation the limit of age to which the service applies for cavalry and heavy infantry; and, in the next place, for the various arti...

Africa, Civilization, And The Wider World Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi We have viewed the development of Egyptian civilization in conjunctionwith the parallel developments of the Fertile Crescent, yet we should alsorecognize that many aspects of Egyptian life, such as ideas about religio...

Dutch Settlement Of New YorkAuthor: Valentine, David T.Dutch Settlement Of New York1614Greater fame ordinarily attaches to the discovery of some vast region ofthe earth than to the finding or exploring of a limited coast, district, orriver-course. There are, however, some instances in which geograph...

In 1925, a death certificate from a Canadian doctor in Edmonton, Canada, gave the cause of death as 'talked to death'. He claimed that his patient would probably have made a recovery if he had not been bothered by relatives anxious about the content of his will. ***** In 1761, a peddler in Oxford, E...

Conquest Of Africa By The Vandals. Vandals, ancient Germanic tribe of Jutland (now in Denmark), who migrated to the valley of the Odra (Oder) River about the 5th century BC. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD they settled along the Danube River. They entered Gaul (now France) in 406, invaded Spain ...

Lydians, The History Of TheAuthor: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731 The kings who first reigned over the Lydians, are by Herodotus calledAtyades; that is, descendants from Atys. ^1179 These, he tells us, derivedtheir origin from Lydus, the son of Atys; and Lydus gave the name of Lydiansto that people, who,...

The American Civil War, George MeadeEdited by: Robert Guisepi2002 b. Dec. 31, 1815, Cádiz, Spain. Nov. 6, 1872,Meade was a Philadelphia American army officer who played a critical role in the American Civil War by defeating the Confederate Army at Gettysburg, Pa. (July 1863). As commander of the 3rd...

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...

The Huns Huns, nomadic Asian people, probably of Turkish, Tataric, or Ugrian origins, who spread from the Caspian steppes (the areas north of the Caspian Sea) to make repeated incursions into the Roman Empire during the 4th and 5th centuries AD.During the 3rd century BC some of the earlier segments ...

World War Two, CHURCHILL, Winston Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 (1874-1965) Once called "a genius without judgment," Sir Winston Churchill rose through a stormy career to become an internationally respected statesman during World War II. He was one of Britain's greatest prime ministers. ...

Ancient Rome Tacitus: Germania 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) "Remem...