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Over the course of time, there have been many misconceptions about the presence of Jewish people in the Land of Israel. Over the course of this speech, I will cover the history of the Jewish people dating back to the 17th Century BCE. Much of the information I’ll be using is sourced from Israel’s Ministry … Read more
In the years before 1901 Australia split into six different colonies which had their own laws and systems. They operated apart from each other and were not considered to be one country. They did not share the same defence force or railway system. At this time many Australians felt there was a need for a … Read more
Karl Marx, born on 5 may 1818 at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, a town then part of the Kingdom of Prussia’s Province of the lower Rhine. Ancestrally Jewish, his grandfather was a Dutch rabbi. Herschel, Karl’s father was a lawyer and lived a relatively wealthy and middle-class life. Back then, they were living in anti-semitic … Read more
From the 1800s to 1850s, slavery became the largest trade in the Southern states of the US. What was originally thought of as “a necessary evil” was now an essential to the Southern economy. The South’s belief in slavery progressively polarized them from the North economically, morally, and politically as the Civil War reached closer. … Read more
August 18, 1935 Howard Morrison A Musician an entertainer and was born in Rotorua a decendeant of the Te Arawa Iwi, with scotish ancertry he was one of six children to be born to a former Maori All Black Temuera Morrison and an Entertainer Kahurangi Morrison (also known as Gerrude Harete Davidson) He was … Read more
Fredrick Douglass was one of the most important black American leaders of the 19th century. As an author, orator, and publisher, Douglass promoted the freedom from slavery, civil rights and universal suffrage. During his fight to try to free African Americans from slavery, he wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave … Read more
The United States is home to some of the most notorious and prolific serial killers in history. Names such as Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, and the Zodiac Killer have become household names due to the horrific nature of their crimes. One of the most prolific serial killers in American history is John Wayne Gacy. Nicknamed … Read more
Adolf Hitler’s speech delivered to the German Reichstag on January 30th, 1939 is a primary source that explicitly discloses the German government’s antisemitic attitude towards European Jewry, as well as the condemnation of countries who voiced solidarity against the forced emigration of Jewry from Germany such as France, England and the US. As an official … Read more
Locations matter. This was as true in the fifteenth century as it is today. Even though no ruler has used the Binnenhof in The Hague as his main residence since the death of John of Bavaria (r. 1418-1425), the Dutch government is still seated there instead of in Amsterdam, the real capital of the Kingdom … Read more
Reliefs sculptures were on the walls in situ or in the site museum, but in the 19th century most of them, scattered to the museums and private collections around the world. The reliefs in the west suite of the palace was poorly preserved, because many of its wall slabs had been removed and used in … Read more
Early Anatolian Civilizations Brief Information About Halaf Culture In the period 6500’5500 B.C., a agricultural society appeared in northern Mesopotamia and Syria which thrown in a comparable culture and deliver pottery. The name of this culture is Halaf which named the site of Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria. The distinctive wellsprings of mud were utilized … Read more
Sir Isaac Newton’s legacy has been an enduring one. Even today, he is considered one of the greatest mathematicians and scientist who ever lived. He took on many roles in his life: astronomer, alchemist, philosopher, theologian, physicist, and mathematician, though at the time he was just considered a natural philosopher. He was born in Woolsthorpe, … Read more
The roots of the western civilization lie in the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The western civilization took shape in Europe during the Medieval Ages with its Christian religion and feudal structure but it did not take full form until the modern era and it developed an economic strength that surpassed the economies of … Read more
George Mason was known to be a notable, honest man and till this day is known as that man. George Mason was a huge part of our history, he was born on December 11, 1725 on a Potomac River plantation which is now modern day Fairfax County, Virginia. He was born into a very wealthy … Read more
Tudor women were raised to believe that they were vastly inferior to men. Centuries of Christian teaching had rigidly enforced the concept that a woman was an ‘instrument of the devil … who would lure man away from the path to salvation’ and as a result there was a great stigma attached to the prospect … Read more
