… 23, 1999 The Roman Empire is considered by many as the basis of modern civilization. Today we use a form of government that was started by them long before people even knew that the Earth…

… achievement as the founder of Pakistan, dominates everything else he did in his long and crowded public life spanning some 42 years. Yet, by any standard, his was an eventful life, his personality multidimensional and his achievements in other fields…

… the field gathering the crops and Hades, the god of the underworld, was admiring her. He decided that he had to have her as his wife. Hades then shook the ground and caused it to split open and Persephone fell into the realm of the underworld. Persepho…

… people, whose sense of identity as romans came primarily from their accomplishments in war and their respect of their ancestors. By examining Livy’s The Early History of Rome, we can identify these traits through roman patterns of behavior and…

… focuses on the Connecticut River Valley in Western Massachusetts between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Clark’s study of the economy of the Connecticut River Valley traces the move from an economy based on household subsistence to one of…

… and the Barents Sea have been of importance to the Russian merchant fleet ever since the 15th century. Because of this, Russia’s Navy has always been an important part of the Russian Military. The matter of access to ice free harbors in the north became…

… Hester Prynne wore a red letter “A” on her breast. The symbol stood for adultery, a sin which she had been convicted of. This public humiliation of having to wear the bright crimson “A” was her punishment for becoming pregnant without being married.…

… who at that time was the Chief of the General Staff of Germany, developed a plan for war in Europe. He developed the plan in an attempt to prepare for the inevitable, a two front war with France and Russia. When he developed the plan he…

… wars so neatly divided our history into a Before and After. And the Sixties were more divisive than World War II, which drew more people for the war effort. The Sixties drove people apart – husbands from wives, children from parents, students from…

… time always introduces different mentalities and ideas to everybody in the world. Such is the case with the so-called "Golden Age" for women, which took place int he colonial period. Many scholars say that the women who immigrated to the United…