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  • A Brief History of the Mayan Culture  By : Terry Kubiak
    The Mayan civilization was the height of pre-Columbian culture. They made significant discoveries in science, including the use of the zero in mathematics.
  • Ancient staircase farms  By : Terry Kubiak
    Agriculture is not a lost art, but must be recognized as one of those that reached a high development in the remote past and afterward declined, and has not yet recovered its ancient prestige. The system of agriculture developed by the ancient Peruvians enabled them to support large populations in places where modern farmers would be helpless.
  • Destruction of the Inca Civilization  By : Terry Kubiak
    Dominance of the predatory instinct is seen when people would rather raid the harvests of others than raise crops of their own. How much agricultural were the ancient Peruvians in habits and instincts is evidenced by their greater freedom from the predatory instincts in comparison with our European race. In this respect the Incas were admittedly superior. Several of the early historians give testimony to this aspect of the Inca civilization.
  • Kill Me if You Can - Account of the Vietnam War  By : Bobby Miller
    Kill Me If You Can, You SOB...is a judicious and penetrating diary of one of America's greatest tragedies--the Vietnam War--and the soldiers who lived and died making it so. While it's illuminating, it's by no means a rah-rah account of the war. This work is a tour de force whose humor and candor is audacious. Simply dealing with the verity of it all makes this possibly one of the best non-fiction works to emerge out of the heartbreak known as the Vietnam War. Pictures/photos can be disturbing.
  • 2012 Predictions  By : Kenneth Patrick
    Will the world end on December 21 2012? On this date the Mayan Calendar comes to an end. What does this have to do with the end of the world as we know it?
  • Victorian Old Prints are Educational and Decorative  By : Chris Robertson
    One way to make history come alive - since the invention of the printing press, at least - is to look through the publications of the time
  • The U.S. Flag Shows Your Colors: Red, White and True Blue  By : Chris Robertson
    It's sometimes difficult to know what kind of U.S. flag to buy, or which flag would be most appropriate for the use you have in mind. Here, then, are some pointers...
  • Just What Does Greco-Roman Mean  By : Terry Kubiak
    Greco-Roman Religion in both Greece and Rome was polytheistic, embracing a multitude of gods and goddesses, especially in the Roman Empire which tended to absorb the deities of the countries it conquered. The Greco-Roman period of history refers to the culture of the peoples who were incorporated into the Roman Republic and Empire.
  • HMS Indomitable; Scrapped yet never decommissioned.  By : Mollie Kay Smith
    Admiralty records about HMS INDOMITABLE, an Illustrious Class Aircraft Carrier, end with the word scrapped. What a pityt no better word could be found to describe the ending of what had been a very noble though short career. Lauched on the 26th March 1940 her story ends in 1955.
  • HMS Indomitable; Scrapped yet never decommisioned.  By : Mollie Kay Smith
    This is part 2 of the article preiously sublitted.
  • Spartans: At The Gates Of Fire  By : kristine
    At the Battle of Thermopylae, a combined Greek force led by the Spartans engaged a much larger invading Persian force. The battle was a tactical defeat, but it served #as inspiration for the Greek defenders. It also acts as the point in history that forever thrust Spartan military might into the realm of legend.


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