The warring states period and Qin's RiseThe Warring States period (475–221 BCE) was a time of intense military conflicts among seven major states vying ...
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Ulysses S. Grant.Important Union Contributions:· Brigadier General Benjamin Prentiss who commanded the 6th Division in the Union center. He was a ...
Alabaster Stela of the Asirian King Ashurnasirpal II (884-859 BC) - British Museum, with credit to and available from this link.Across the eastern ...
Coca-Cola and World War II Allied Forces Before we get into the actual story, it is important that we comprehend how important Coca-Cola was during the ...
Emigrants Crossing the Plains. Drawn by F.O.C. Darley, engraved by Henry Bryan Hall.“You have no idea how few women we have here, a San Francisco lawyer ...
Audrey was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4 1929, to an English father and Dutch mother. Her mother, Ella van Heemstra, was from an aristocratic ...
Charles Lindbergh shown receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross from President Calvin Coolidge in June 1927.The American Founding Fathers counseled that ...
A depiction of Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne.Major campaigns and victoriesCharlemagne's military conquests were central to his legacy. Over his ...
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Dean O’Banion.Dean O’BanionDean O’Banion, or Dion as he is often misnamed in history, is considered the archetype of Irish Chicago Gangsters. An ...
Major John Howard.John Howard’s early yearsWithin Howards own written account he describes his early very ordinary upbringing which was not unusual for ...
A portrait of Otto von Bismarck by Franz von Lenbach.Early life and entry into politicsBismarck was born in Schönhausen, a small town near Berlin, into a ...
A Russian Emancipation Reform took place in 1861. The above painting is Peasants Reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory ...