… where the most important civilizations from the new world that amazed many of the Europeans that came to conquer this wonderful rich land. The Europeans where amazed with the Aztec and Mayan culture, their ways of life, their geographical surroundings…

… in Christ's second appearing. They are one of many utopian farming communities of the early 1800's. The Shakers are more than a farming group, they were dedicated to a life of perfection. They invented many timesaving tools and machines, and…

… recreationally traveling down a snow-covered mountain until Snowboarding. Although no one person takes credit for inviting the snowboard it has revolutionized out door winter sports. "Snowboarding is so successful because it barrows from skate boarding,…

… conservative shifts in a similar pattern. While laissez-faire policies are considered liberal in the Roaring 20's, the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 quickly changed America's view of liberalism. Suddenly, the small government politics of Hoover…

… 15, 1920 at three in the afternoon a paymaster and his guard were gunned down. Fredrick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli were carrying the payroll for a shoe factory through the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts. The payroll was worth $15,776.…

… be like Che" everyday since the execution of Ernesto Che Guevara. Che is remembered for his intentions of liberating Latin America and uniting it against its oppressors. His life was dedicated to revolution. Che's intelligence enabled him to become…

… 8th and 9th centuries A.D. Most of the cities of the central lowlands had been abandoned. Earthquakes, invasions by outsiders, famine, warfare, and drought have all been suggested as possible causes for the fall of the Mayan civilization. By 900 A.D.…

… point of the revolutionary changes sweeping East Central Europe in 1989. Throughout the Soviet bloc, reformers assumed power and ended over 40 years of dictatorial Communist rule. The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began…

… Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost. Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in a poor village in Georgia. Permanently scarred from a childhood bout with smallpox and having a mildly deformed arm,…

… ever since Dutch colonists landed in 1652; "Blacks" and "Whites" have lived apart in South Africa. Officially started in 1948 when the Afrikaner Nationalist party came to power, apartheid is a system of racial laws devised to "Preserve and promote a…