Tag: world history

In the olden days in Germany and Austria, some people kept a frog, and a tiny ladder, in a jar half-filled with water for predicting the weather. If the frog stayed put rain would come. But if the frog climbed up the ladder the sun would come out.**********The hole in the doughnut was created in 184...

Kush And The Eastern Mediterranean The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Toward the end of the early civilization period, a number of partially separate civilization centers sprang up on the fringes of the civilized world in Africa and the Middle East, exte...

Recognition Of The Independence Of CubaAuthor: VariousDate: 1898 Recognition Of The Independence Of Cuba[The following resolution not only recognized the independence of Cuba,but authorized the levying of war upon Spain in order to force upon thatcountry a similar recognition. The resolution was pas...

The State The Earliest Forms Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow Part I. 1. Nature of the Question. - The probable origin of government is a question of fact, to be settled, not by conjecture, but by history. Some traces we can still discern of the history of primitive societies. As fragments of...

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...

THE ARTS Various Author Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Paintings and power shovels, sonatas and submarines, dramas and dynamos--they all have one thing in common. They are fashioned by people. They are artificial, in contrast to everything that is natural--plants, animals, minerals. The average 20th-centu...

The Thirty Years' WarAuthor: Wallbank Date: 2002The Thirty Years' WarSpain's golden age had ended, but the religious and political strife ofdynasties continued with even greater intensity. Despite the weakening ofSpain, other nations still feared a Habsburg resurgence and other dynastiessought to wi...

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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD In the ancient world there were seven great man-made structures for travelers to see on a world tour. Lists of the so-called seven wonders of the world sometimes varied. The following list, dating from about the 6th century AD, was a commonly used and standard one: (1) the...

World War One, Kaiser Wilhelm II b. Jan. 27, 1859, Potsdam, near Berlind. June 4, 1941, Doorn, Neth. German IN FULL FRIEDRICH WILHELM VIKTOR ALBERT, German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918, known for his frequently militaristic manner as well as for ...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Author: Robert A. Guisepi Date: 2001 The Peloponnesian War In 431 B.C. the Peloponnesian War broke out between the Spartan League and the Athenian empire. While commercial rivalry between Athens and Sparta's major ally Corinth was an important ...

Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Author: Pears, Edwin Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Plunder Of The Sacred Relics, A.D. 1204 In the treaty arranged at the end of the Third Crusade (1192) it was stipulated that all hostilities between the Christians and the Moslems should cea...