Time: c. 330 B.C.Place: Athens, GreecePicture: AccropolisDemosthenes:Someday you will drive the Athenians out of their minds and they will
Archives for January 2010
Green Sahara
Time: 7,000 – 5,000 B.C.Place: Sahara, North AfricaTop Picture: Landsat satellite picture of the Sahara DesertBottom Picture: Rock layer
The Great White Fleet (Battleships 2)
Time: December 16, 1907Place: Hampton Roads, VirginiaPicture: 4 Connecticutt Class Battleships, USS Kansas in lead, clear port on the first day of
Dinosaur True Colors Revealed
Time: 122 million years agoPlace: NE ChinaPicture: This dinosaur's size.This is Sinosauropteryx. This is because scientists have analyzed a
Haiti’s Revolution – 2
Time: 1791 - 1803Place: Haiti[describes disorders and shortages in France] ... not so much as Sugar can be had; for good reasons ... With factions,
Herodotus Book I, Verses 34-46
The growing greatness of the Persians caused Croesus to cease from his mourning, and led him to a care of cutting short the power of the
U.S. Navy’s Earliest Battleships – I
Time: January, 1898.Place: Havana, CubaAfter the Civil War, the U.S. Navy had deteriorated. For 20 years, its strength was negligible. The
An Arab Looks at US Politics
Time: June 2, 1807Place: New York CityLetterfrom Mustapha Rub-A-Dub Keli Khan,captain of a ketch,To Asem Haccem,principle slave-driver
Poland Wants In
Time: September 29, 1938Place: Warsaw, PolandIn the aftermath of the Munich Agreement, Poland sends a note to Czechoslovakia, demanding they cede them