… passing stories on down throught the generations by word of mouth. Stories for entertainment and some to answer meaningful questions. Luckily somewhere along the line people began to write their stories down, which gives us the chance to research…

… of the mid-west plains, was in 1682 by René Robert Cavelier who heard of them from a captive Pani slave, boy at Fort St. Louis who called them Manrhouts and Gattacha. The Kiowa are a group of warrior plains people who lived on the southern Great Plains.…

… story by Will Self, published in 1994, and is about a man, who believes he killed his history teacher back in primary school, by driving him into suicide. In the story, we hear of how the main character, Mr. Fein, droved his teacher, Mr. Vello, into…

… the unusual political structure of the nation at the time, the differing economic structure of the regions of the United States, and the differing social structures and views at the time. All three issues, however, revolved around the issue of slavery. …

… Chivalry was the order of knighthood and the code of knightly behavior. Many of the tenets of Chivalry were displayed throughout the Arthurian legend. “The Lady of the Lake and Excalibur” displayed such aspects of chivalric code. The great…

… history, but the best monarch of all times was a remarkable woman, Queen Victoria. First, Britain’s greatest age expansion was during Victoria’s reign. Second, she was able to keep her country almost free of war. Finally, she showed many great qualities.…

… NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. Who Was This Man? “ Listen my children and you shall hear, of the Midnight ride of Paul Revere, on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day…

… first woman's rights convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were among the women who has organized it. They were all experienced women in abolition, temperance,…

… to why Europe claimed ascendency over China. There is speculation that importing gold and silver helped Europe quite a bit as well as the steam engine. Historians have also observed China's continuing resistance to learn from other civilizations.…

… of aggressive territorial expansion; they invaded weak lands that could be taken over easily. The dictatorships (led by Hitler in Germany, and Mussolini in Italy) knew exactly what their goals were, to form the empire they didn’t achieve during the…