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Ancient Rome GLADIATOR. 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, Ro...

The Indus Valley And The Genesis Of South Asian Civilization Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Introduction Like Sumer, Egypt, and other early civilizations in the Middle East, civilizations first developed in East and South Asia in the vicinity of great river systems. When irrigated by the massive spring f...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi REFORMED CHURCHES. Among Protestant Christian denominations, those that use the names Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregational originated during the 16th century in the work of John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and others centered mainly in Switzerl...

American Civil War Letter In 1861, a Union officer named Sullivan Ballou, assigned to the Grand Army of The Potomac, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield, Rhode Island. July 14, 1861 Dear Sarah, The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow, and lest I should no...

An April Fool's Tale? April Fool's Day During the 16th century, the calendar had become so inaccurate that Pope Gregory VIII decided to order a recalculation of the correct dates. As part of this reform, he decreed that the celebration of the new year would no longer begin on April 1, as had been th...

The American Civil War, The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was perhaps the most dramatic protest action against slavery in United States history. The operations of clandestine escape networks began in the 1500s, and was later connected with organized abolitionist activity of the 1800...

Thomas Jefferson on Slavery It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by t...

Cuneiform Cuneiform was the system of writing used most extensively in the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform was employed for writing a number of languages from about the end of the 4th millennium BC until about the 1st century BC. Spread and development of cuneiform Although begun by the Sumerians, ev...

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...

Adolf Hitler, one of history’s most notorious figures, was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a small town on the Austrian-German border. His life and actions would lead to global devastation and a profound shift in world history. From his humble beginnings, he rose to lead Nazi Germany, lea...

The Emergence Of JapanThe Rising Flood Of Asian Culture, 300-1300 The rise of Japan after the sixth century was part of a much largerprocess in which a number of new fringe cultures developed rapidly in theshadows of the old major civilizations. In Europe, Africa, southeast andcentral Asia, Korea, a...

countrykilled, died of wounds, orin prison{1}woundedprisoners or missing{2}deaths due to wartotal deathsAllied PowersBelgium12,000----76,00088,000Brazil9434,222----1,000British Commonwealth373,372475,047251,724{3}92,673466,000Australia23,36539,80332,393--24,000Canada37,47653,17410,888--38,000India24...