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?The approach to the Garden sloped like a hillside and the several parts of the structure rose from one another tier on tier? On all this, the earth had been piled? and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the beholder? The water machines [raised] the water in grea...
The Jewish revolt led by Bar Kochba in 132 AD was not the work of a single if a single radical revolutionary. It was the inevitable result of years of promises not kept to the Jews, and laws which suppressed the basis of Jews as a nation. To understand the reason for Bar Kochba's Revolt one must go back many years even before the war. P...
By: Jason Sebesto cut The British North American colonies were on the cutting edge of governmental systems in their time. They developed confederations and other styles of ruling that greatly differed from the iron fist of the absolutist monarch of Britain. Among these colonies, Connecticut was the forerunner. Among three major towns, Hartf...
By: Audra Rourk In the spring of 1841, Solomon Northup accepted an offer of short-term employment as a musician, accompanying a pair of white men, circus performers working their way back to their troupe. A free African-American and resident of New York state, Northup expected the job to take him from Saratoga Springs to New York City, enta...
Once the fall of the Toltec civilization (a civilization north of what is now Mexico) transpired, an influx of immigrants fled into Mexico's central plateau area around Lake Texcoco. As the Aztec?s were late to arrive in Mexico, they were soon forced to inhabit the swampy area on the western side of the lake. Forceful neighbors surrounded the Azte...
