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Nadir Shah Captures Delhi
This series has eleven easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Nadir Expels the Afghans from Persia.IntroductionBy the eighteenth
The Constitutional Convention of the United States
This series has eight easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Convention Convenes.IntroductionBefore the American Revolution, no
Europe’s First Battle Against Republican France
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionIn the battle of Valmy the French, under Dumouriez and Kellermann, repulsed the
The Seven Years War
This series has nine easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionIn the Seven Years' War Prussia stood practically alone against the united strength
Reign of Catherine the Great
This series has six easy 5 minute installments.Introduction"No sovereign since Ivan the Terrible," says Rambaud, "extended the frontiers of the
Britain Captures Quebec
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionWith the opening of the Seven Years' War the two peoples, French and English, once
Pestalozzi’s Method of Education
This series has five easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionModern education began when Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established his experimental
Voltaire in Geneva
This series has easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionTo set an exact date as marking the culmination of the vast influence of Voltaire upon