This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Cleopatra Meets Julius Caesar.IntroductionIn another series, we
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Hammurabi on Labor
273. If any one hire a day laborer, he shall pay him from the New Year until the fifth month [April to August, when days are long and work hard] six
Parkman Vol. 2 Chapter 23
How the quarrel began between the Iroquois and their Huron kindred no man can tell, and it is not worth while to conjecture.Previously in The
Hammurabi on Shipping and on Animals
236. If a man rent his boat to a sailor, and the sailor is careless, and the boat is wrecked or goes aground, the sailor shall give the owner of the
Hammurabi on Assault and Battery
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
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