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Amerigo Vespucci's Account Of His First Voyage Author: Vespucci, AmerigoDate: 1497Amerigo Vespucci's Account Of His First Voyage Introduction Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence in 1452 and died in Seville in 1512. He was employed in the latter city in the business house which fitted out Columbus...

The American Civil War: A. P. Hill Edited by: Robert GuisepiPublished: 2002 Overview Born: November 9, 1825, Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.Died: April 2, 1865, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S. A. P. Hill was a Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, renowned for his leadership of the "Light Division," co...

A History of Ancient Greece, TROY The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 Greek TROIA, also called ILIOS, OR ILION, Latin TROIA, TROJA, OR ILIUM, was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of the Troj...

Japan: Conquered Nation To World Power Author: Wallbank; Taylor; Bailkey; Jewsbury; Lewis; HackettDate: 1992Japan: Conquered Nation To World PowerAfter 1945 the old European empires disappeared, replaced by over 80 newcountries. These new states, primarily located to the south of the Europeanpowers,...

Cosmogony and cosmology Thorkild Jacobsen: Professor of Assyriology,Harvard University, 1962-74. Author of The Sumerian Kinglist; "Mesopotamia"in The Intellectual History of Ancient Man Reprinted by Permission Though the "Eridu Genesis" may have come close to treating existence as a whole, a true co...

The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors To Empire BuildersAuthor: Robert GuisepiDate: 1992 For centuries before the rise of the Ottoman dynasty in the 13th and 14thcenturies, Turkic-speaking peoples from central Asia had played key roles inIslamic civilization as soldiers and administrators, often in t...

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke ...

By the simplest definition, architecture is the design of buildings, executed by architects. However, it is more. It is the expression of thought in building. It is not simply construction, the piling of stones or the spanning of spaces with steel girders. It is the intelligent creation of forms and...

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...

The American Civil War, Ulysses S. GrantEdited by: Robert Guisepi2002 From humble beginnings, Ulysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead them to victory. So great was his popularity that the people twice elected him to the presidency.His Birth and BoyhoodUlysse...

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...

Library Of Alexandria Founded.Author: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731 Ptolemy Soter Resigns His Kingdom To His Son Ptolemy Philadelphus.Ptolemy Soter, the son of Lagus, after a reign of twenty years in Egypt,with the title of king, and of nearly thirty-nine from the death of Alexander,was desirous of tra...