The emperor then endeavored to advance into the interior, but among the mountains it was so precipitous that there was no road by which they could
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Parkman Vol. 1 Part II, Chapter 11
Thus did New France rush into collision with the redoubted warriors of the Iroquois. Here the long conflict France versus Iroquois began.Our
Royal Army Marches East
The emperor ordered the end of a pole of Shihi wood to be given to the fisher, and caused him to be taken and pulled into the imperial vessel, of
Earliest Japanese Rulers
I must take the liberty of accepting as sufficiently accurate as much of the recorded lives of Jimmu and his successors as the modern prosaic
Austria’s Army Repulsed
Today's installment concludes First Swiss Struggle for Liberty,our selection from The Model Republic; a History of the Rise and Progress of the
The Communist Strip Club
From our Humor Department:In the 1980s the Soviet leadership decided to open a strip club in Moscow. It was a miserable failure. The commissars in
Japan’s First Emperor
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Legendary Japan.IntroductionA story that covers Japan's first emperor
Champlain Attacks Iroquois
The scene is a familiar one to many a tourist; and perhaps, standing at sunset on the peaceful strand, Champlain saw what a roving student of this
How to Avoid War?
One serious economic result of this heavy taxation is that European industry is placed at a considerable disadvantage in competing with that of other