… inhibited town of town of Salem Village, Massachusetts. Strange and often unexplainable phenomenon was experienced by the townspeople. The disturbing events that took place ware attributed to malevolence of witchcraft. In less than six months, 19 men…

… official, Adolf Hitler dropped out of high school, and after his mother's death in 1907 moved to Vienna. He twice failed the admission examination for the academy of arts. His vicious anti-Semitism (perhaps influenced by that of Karl Lueger ) and…

… War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankind's inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the…

… have been many diseases reported historically such as smallpox, measles and typhoid but none were as horrendous as the Black Death. In order to understand the devastation of this disease we must look at the effects it had on the political, economic…

… towards the collapse of Nazism by 1945. The military defeats experienced by the Nazi's contributed greatly to the downfall of the Nazi regime. In the beginning of the war, Germany was on a roll, with many countries under their control within the…

… about my personal historic folklore. These are things I should be concerned with, but do not seem particularly important to me. Sure, I know a lot about current "Net lore" and the like, but what has happened to stories that are passed down from one…

… is stated in the dictionary as the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes and the movement organized around this belief. Many individuals will understand the word feminism in different ways. There is no true set way…

… property of a person or household. The word slave brings us back to history around 1630's when African Americans were considered slaves to their masters (1). They served their masters as if they were just an object with no identity. They were told…

… skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an airplane when…

… unofficial leader of the democratic assembly in Athens during 450 B.C.? Pericles had characteristics that enabled him to become the unofficial leader of the democratic assembly in Athens during 450 B.C. He managed to make people do what he wanted…