Tag: people
group name: historyrules
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May 28, 2006 11:03 PM EDT --
Today, my husband and I decided we would have a lazy Sunday. We had planned on going garage saling, but decided against it. We figured all of the good stuff would have been bought up yesterday. So, we . . .
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July 02, 2006 11:01 PM EDT --
Hi, my name is Pearl Hart. I was born in Lindsay, Ontario, in 1817. My parents, who were middle class, sent me to finishing school when I was very young. Back then I was known as Pearl Taylor.
At the . . .
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June 27, 2006 06:47 PM EDT --
In 1793, the Upper Canada Act Against Slavery was passed. The Act was inspired by Governor J. G. Simcoe and made Upper Canada (now Ontario) the first British Colony to legislate against slavery.
Slavery . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . .
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October 02, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
This Day in History --
1836: Charles Darwin's return to England
Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle, on which he gathered . . .
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June 17, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
This is a vexing question to me, perhaps
because of the enormous hostility a sizable
number of Americans seem to have about
immigrants (again) despite the *fact* that
everyone in the Western hemisphere . . .
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December 29, 2006 01:59 PM EST --
Gather members are generally positive on the impact President Gerald Ford had on history. OVer half (55%) feel his contributions were positive, and just under 40% feel that he had a neutral impact on history. . . .
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August 21, 2006 05:27 AM EDT --
I am currently reading this book. I am within 20 pages of being done. If you want to read a good book on World War II this is it. It is written fron the tapes of interviews done after . . .
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September 19, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
So, I've been hunting around for some time trying to find the source of this mysterious Byzantine Ambassador to the Empire of the Turks, one Zemarchos, that Grousset mentioned in his "Empire . . .
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . .
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October 09, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
Christopher Columbus died 500 years ago this year, but how should Americans remember him this Columbus Day? Was he the grand explorer deserving of the honor long accorded him, or was he a rank imperialist . . .
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April 24, 2006 11:04 PM EDT --
Slavery ran rampant in the Old South before the Civil War. Slaves would do almost anything in order to gain freedom from cruel masters and unbearable living conditions. Slaves, who left the plantations . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
I got this in a e-mail a few times and have always stopped to read it. It gives an inside view of the people in the famous photo of the marines holding up the American Flag together at Iwo Jima. The rest . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:39 AM EST --
The House Where I Was Born STC
The house where I was born, although it is no . . .
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September 17, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
Some of you might be wondering why I posted a Robert Graves poem, "The Persian Version," without comment. I was hoping someone might make the connection, but then again, it's not like Graves . . .
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September 28, 2006 09:48 AM EDT --
This Day in History --
1958: Madagascar voted for autonomy within the French Community.
1920: In what became known as the Black Sox Scandal, eight members of the Chicago White . . .
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . .
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September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . .
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May 16, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
I had just assumed that upon the death of the last WWI combat veteran there would have been some mention of him in the major media, after all World War One was our official coming out party as a great . . .
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