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story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...
of the most important documents in US history. It is also considered one of the staunchest protections of the freedom of speech a...
equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...
however, early mathematics came right along with that. Richardson notes that Hieroglyphic numbers were introduced around 3,000 BCE...
suggest that it was part of Neros palace.5 It is believed by scholars that the function of these cityscapes, that is, aerial views...
of more than $40 billion, earnings of more than $5 billion and a 34% share of the global market for wireless phones....
that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...
the first use of gunpowder, creating greater capabilities in weaponry and therefore greater need for external defense from within ...
century, there were youth gangs known respectively as Hectors, Scourers, and Mohawks prowled the streets at night, accosting young...
As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...
The battle included the use of guns and dynamite. When the battle ended, sixteen people were dead, and almost 160 were wounded (A...
In many ways Turkey contradicts all of our images of an Islamic nation. While many quasi experts have...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...
French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...
papacy for the council believed that the pope should be second to the council (Council of Basel, 2005). In the Council of Constanc...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...
(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...
years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....
could be used therapeutically both in the treatment of his own diseases and in those of the plants and animals he found important....
associated with fresh, not estuarine or salt, water (Forey and Janvier, 1994). Recent research has determined that, to the contra...
It was the revenue from the sale of tobacco "that produced the first returns on the investment of the Virginia Company" (Faragher,...
and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...
"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...
which would ultimately leave many African Americans enslaved economically and socially in a very different way as they were provid...
very easy for the adult who simply wants a brief understanding of the period. This site also offers many different museums which...
faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...