Tag: world history

Ancient Egypt, The Egyptian calendar EGYPT'S HISTORY Robert Guisepi, 1984 The Valley of the Nile The ancient Egyptians originally employed a calendar based upon the Moon, and, like many peoples throughout the world, they regulated their lunar calendar by means of the guidance of a sidereal calendar....

Ancient Rome Description of the Roman Army 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 permiss...

June 6, 1944 , D-Day By 1943, the Germans had overrun most of Europe, imposing their hateful philosophy on much of humanity. The armies of the democracies were either crushed or barely hanging on to survival. The Russians were fighting valiantly against Hitler’s troops but were seriously out-matched...

Shortly after the discovery of X-rays in 1895, an imaginative English businessman started selling x-ray proof undergarments to women who thought that they would be stared at by men wearing x-ray glasses.*****One morning in 1705, the people of West Hartlepool, England, saw a hairy odd-looking charact...

Plutarch's Lives: Tiberius Gracchus Having completed the first two narratives, we now may proceedto take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in theRoman couple, and with the lives of Agis and Cleomenes,compare these of Tiberius and Caius. They were the sons ofTiberius Gracchus, who, though h...

Ud-ul-uru (Old man cultivator) gave advice to his son: When you have to prepare a field, inspect the levees, canals and mounds that have to be opened. When you let the flood water into the field, this water should not rise too high in it. At the time that the field emerges from the water, watch its ...

Ancient Mauritania Herodotus: The Histories, c. 430 B.C., Book IV.42-43: For my part I am astonished that men should ever have divided Libya, Asia, and Europe as they have, for they are exceedingly unequal. Europe extends the entire length of the other two, and for breadth will not even (as I think...

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, Part One Author: William Kehen, PhD. Columbia University 1996The federal government of the United States was created by the Constitution, which went into operation in 1789 when the first Congress convened and George Washington took the oath of office as president. The gover...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VState of Italy after the Extinction of the House of Suabia - Conquest ofNaples by Charles of Anjou - The Lombard Republics become severally subject toPrinces or Usurpers - The Visconti of Milan - Their Aggrandizement - Declineof the Imperial Authority ...

The American Civil War, Confederate States of America Edited by: Robert Guisepi The Confederate States of America was also called the CONFEDERACY and during the American Civil War, composed the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61, carrying on all the affairs of a...

The Peoples Of The AmericasAuthor: Stearns, Peter NDate: 1992The Archaic CulturesBy about 9000 B.C. small bands of hunters were widely dispersed over theAmerican continents. Changes in climate with the ending of the last Ice Agemay lay behind changes in diet and ways of life. The disappearance of la...

Judas Maccabaeus Liberates JudeaAuthor: JosephusJudas Maccabaeus Liberates JudeaB.C. 165IntroductionThe noble-minded Judas Maccabaeus was the hero of Jewish independence -the deliverer of Judea and Judaism during the bloody persecutions of theSyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, in the second century B....