196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.Continuing The Code of Hammurabi.The Code was chiseled on an oblisk by
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Treaty With the Indians
Today's installment concludes Settlement Of Georgia (A.D. 1732),our selection from History of Georgia by William B. Stevens published in 1847. For
First Settlers Arrive
On the 9th Oglethorpe and Colonel Bull marked out the square, the streets, and forty lots for houses; and the first clapboard-house of the colony of
Georgia’s Founding Purpose
Subsidiary to the great design of philanthropy was the further purpose of making Georgia a silk, wine, oil, and drug-growing colony.Continuing
Hammurabi on Women
173. If this woman bear sons to her second husband, in the place to which she went, and then die, her earlier and later sons shall divide the dowry
Visiting Massachusetts
On the next day, Gibbons took his guest to Roxbury, to see the Governor, the harsh and narrow Dudley, grown gray in repellent virtue and grim
Hammurabi on Family Law
154. If a man be guilty of incest with his daughter, he shall be driven from the place [exiled].Continuing The Code of Hammurabi.The Code was
Hammurabi on Marriage
129. If a man's wife be surprised with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his
Settlement of Georgia
This series has four easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Parliament Committee Organizes Trustees.IntroductionIt was not only the