In 1841, Prussia took the revolutionary decision to adopt the needle gun. At that time other armies had just finished the conversion from flintlock to percussion lock. The infantry of these nations was still armed with smoothbore muzzleloaders for a large part. The...

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There were less than ten thousand Jews in the New World three centuries after its discovery, and about two-thirds of them lived in the West Indies and in Surinam or Dutch Guiana in South America. While the communities in those far-away places are now larger in...

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Pope Joan. A concealed pontificate of a woman or a fictitious legend? In 1277, Martin of Troppau mentioned in his chronicle the pontificate of a woman who, as John Anglicus, had held the office of pope for two and a half years around 850 and was later removed from the...

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The book outlines the history of Russia-Germans - one of the indigenous peoples of Eastern Europe.

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Fun, short, simple and in full colour! You won't end up knowing the list of the 4th century emperors, but you'll never again confuse a Roman legionary of Augustus with one of Constantine, and one of Constantine with a Viking. Weapons and helmets, formations, logistics,...

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Japan lay sweltering with uncertainty. Four centuries of unbridled warfare had reduced her once sturdy, centralized government to little more than a revered impotency; the country had become the property or the booty of its daimyos-those knights-errant, the pride of a...

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The book deals with the latest global developments since the presidential election in the US in 2016 when Donald Trump took over the presidency in the White House. The author gives a historical look back at the earlier geostrategic theories from the 1800s - 1900s, of...

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Die Juden waren für die Entwicklung Norderneys zu einem führenden Kurbad von sehr großer Bedeutung. Durch die sehr schnell erstellte Infrastruktur, die es den jüdischen Gästen erlaubte, in jüdischen Geschäften einzukaufen, ihren Gottesdienst in einer Synagoge...

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Experience and Historical Materialism: Five Argumentative Essays. The central essay in this volume sketches a revised version of historical materialism, with agents' experiences of and responses to their social circumstances as the motive power of historical...

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Perhaps everyone interested in reading, for example, the history of Assyria, Babylon and Egypt, has at some point noticed some references to solar eclipses observed at that distant time. Taking a glance at the chronologies of those peoples, it can be stated that the...

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Shankara Bhagavatpada (~788 - 820 CE) was a true master of the highest caliber who expounded the ancient teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the Principal Upanishads, and the Brahma Sutras, usually known as Prasthanatraya in an ingenious way. This anthology of nearly 1900...

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IN the following lectures no attempt will be made to give a systematic account of a political development, which is the ordinary theme of history. History is "past politics" in the wide sense of the word. It has to do with the growth and decay of states and...

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We thought that Palestine had passed into ancient history, but it has been a centre of modern events. No country in the world has a more continuously interesting and profitable story. Its present population is made of sturdy and able people. Three great religions call...

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The Holy Shroud appeared in history, as early as 1356, in a collegiate church, located 20 kilometers south of Troyes. It was Jeanne de Vergy who testified to it, following the wish of her late husband, the knight, Geoffroy de Charny, also a standard-bearer and advisor...

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Religion is a matter of the highest importance to every man, and therefore there can be nothing which deserves a more impartial inquiry, or which should be examined into with a more disinterested freedom; because as far as our acceptance with the Deity depends on the...

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The murder of Laura Foster in 1866 has been the source of many legends and both in fiction and non-fiction it has inspired many authors. The murder, which in the end led to the conviction and execution of Thomas C. Dula, also inspired the famous song,The Ballad of Tom...

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In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there...

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In the summer of 477 A.D. a band of ambassadors, who claimed to speak the will of the decayed body which still called itself the Roman senate, appeared before the judgment-seat of the emperor Zeno, the ruler of Constantinople and the Eastern Empire. They came to...

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Dieses Heft enthält die als Handschrift im HStA Dresden liegenden Aufzeichnung des im Regiment v.Rechten stehenden Major v.Hausen. Die Aufzeichnungen sind zum einen Feldzugsberichte in Briefform an seinen Bruder Carl Heinrich Xaver (1812/13 Platzadjutant in Dresden) und...

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Saxo Grammaticus, or "The Lettered", one of the notable historians of the Middle Ages, may fairly be called not only the earliest chronicler of Denmark, but her earliest writer. In the latter half of the twelfth century, when Iceland was in the flush of literary...

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