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Politics » History | By Cassidy Williams @ Sunday, 9th March 2008 @ 4:25 PM

The Panama Canal is a vital place for ships to pass through Panama. It connects the Atlantic with the Pacific Oceans and turned down the long and risky route via Drake Passage and Cape Horn and gave birth to new shipping route. Moreover, it made traveling easy between Spain and Peru. In 1880, French took the decision to make the Canal which was failed when a huge number of workers died in the construction process. The creation of the canal in Panama was beset by problems like disease and... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 1:07 AM

Tribal body jewelry was given out as gifts on the way to the Pacific, although it was not liked discussed among some of the bewigged gentlemen in the Cabinet Room of the new White House. To some of them, President Thomas Jefferson, accepted as a genius and visionary by the world, although perhaps his vision of an America from sea to sea was a noble but rather far fetched idea. So Jefferson was wise to employ these two mountain men from the west, a Mr. Lewis, who began to create his team w... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008 @ 4:03 AM

Ancient Greece lifted the souls of men of imagination and thoughts they had wanted to express for ages. But in ancient Egypt there was no time for that; all rules and thoughts of any worth were by decree by the reigning Pharaoh of Egypt. Greece was a land that, like Rome next door did have a winter when the people could not grow crops and had to be able to survive an occasional winter blast unknown in fortunate Egypt.For many months each year in Athens or Rome the weather would not allow... more...

Politics » History | By Peter Finch @ Tuesday, 29th January 2008 @ 5:15 PM

Romanian history refers to the history of Romanian land, as well as to the history of people, who inhabited this land and who offered it a specific identity. Besides, a brief Romanian history can refer to the history of the unitary Romanian state, which means the history of the Romanian modern state, Romanian kingdom and other intermediary organization forms, as well as the events, which lead to the national Romanian state. The Romanian nowadays land was inhabited in 200 BC by Dacia'... more...

Politics » History | By Leon Newton @ Thursday, 17th January 2008 @ 2:54 PM

The events after the Cold War have focused attention on the enormous problems for the Organization for the Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe. The Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts tested in the OSCE as a regional security organization. The ethnic conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo posed a security for the OSCE governance. The proliferation of nuclear weapons, biological and chemical weapons in the hands of antagonistic groups seeking self-determination and terrorists groups could be dangerous for ... more...

Politics » History | By Catherine Harvey @ Thursday, 17th January 2008 @ 12:42 PM

Scotland is home to the westernmost and northenmost points of Great Britain. The highest peak of Great Britain is at Ben Nevis in Scotland at 1344 metres. This geographical location makes it cold, wet and windy with some of the most inhospitable terrain of the entire country. Scots have a reputation for being a hard and often fierce race but this is not necessarily so. Indeed, with their very best export being Scotch Whiskey this must have mellowed them somewhat over the years.more...

Politics » History | By Adrian Adams @ Monday, 14th January 2008 @ 5:02 PM

Born in the late 1800s and court martialed in 1925, Billy Mitchell's name is known as the founding father of today's Air Force. As the son of a Wisconsin senator, William 'Billy' Mitchell grew up in a wealthy family that had plenty of pull in their town. After gaining a degree from Columbian University, Mitchell enlisted after turning eighteen and was taken into the Army thanks to his father's influence. In the early 1900s, Mitchell's first astounding prediction ... more...

Politics » History | By Jack Deal @ Wednesday, 26th December 2007 @ 3:20 PM

As a child I would look in awe at the flags of the world and the flags of the United States. In the U.S. section one flag always caught my attention; partly because it had the picture of a rattlesnake on it, and partly because the words beneath read 'Don't Tread on Me'. The reference of course was to the oppression through taxes levied by the British crown upon her disloyal colonial subjects...us. The snake in real life is not something one wants to step or tread on; f... more...

Politics » History | By Jack Deal @ Tuesday, 25th December 2007 @ 2:04 PM

Fremont Peak State Park in San Benito County, California offers the best view of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary. 1n 1846 Fremont led an expeditionary force into what was then Mexico to survey the current state park area. At 3100 feet Gavilan Peak, or Fremont Peak as it is now called, splits the Bay in two; Santa Cruz at the northern tip and Monterey and Pacific Grove on the southern tip. On the other side one can see the dirt bike hills of Hollister, the fields of Watsonville and Gilroy... more...

Politics » History | By Burl Collins @ Friday, 16th November 2007 @ 10:49 PM

The War of Independence had left the fledgling America free, but in turmoil. There was as yet no President and the country was a loose conglomeration of more or less independent states. Many soldiers who had fought in the war had yet to be paid for it and there was no official center of government to pay them. Philadelphias Old City Hall was the only place the where the leaders of the revolution routinely met and in 1783 they decided it was time to designate a new national capital. While ... more...

Politics » History | By Jimmy Cox @ Monday, 22nd October 2007 @ 8:42 AM

From about the year 1930 calligraphy writing and lettering had made such progress that it had become a subject in the training of Art Teachers and was taught by the immediate followers of the two who had given their lives to its cause. Lettering of Today, first volume, published in 1937, showed the work of some of these who had taken up the craft and were in their turn passing it on to the new generation. Under post-war conditions the subject suffered a setback; writing materials had sudd... more...

Politics » History | By Amar Mahallati @ Friday, 19th October 2007 @ 4:26 PM

Egyptian culture has emerged from a process that had been going on for thousands of years. The nomad tribes of fishermen and hunters began to be stationary in villages in approximately 6000 BC, and after the adapting of agriculture in approximately 5000 BC, some of them grew to quite a substantial size. Other communities were also developing, by other rivers like Indus which is in today's India/Pakistan and much closer by Eufrat and Tigris in Mesopotamia. Archaeology in E... more...

Politics » History | By Victor Epand @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 11:33 PM

The first tanks did not have turrets in World War 1 until the development of the French light tank called the FT-17. This French tank set the design of tanks to modern day even thou it only had a machine gun for is main weapon. Many World War 1 tanks were huge compared to the early days of tank in World War 2. At the Start of WW2 most tanks had a 37mm cannon. Also before World War 2 the development of mobile radio sets that could be used inside tanks meant that tanks to work together as groups w... more...

Politics » History | By William Nugent @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 4:42 PM

We often think of Mao-Tse-Tung as a champion of Marxism but in this article I'll point out that Mao's reign of mass murder and despotism owes more to Darwin than Marx. To begin let me say that Darwinism was and remains the great underpinning of atheism. Marxism is militant atheism. There were atheists before Darwin such as Scottish philosopher David Hume but these were few in number. Philosophical atheism failed as an undergirding philosophy because it had no explanation of hum... more...

Politics » History | By Jack Deal @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 8:18 PM

Grandpa collected a series of 350 or so photos, reprints and postcards from World War I when he was an American soldier. For some reason he wanted to save all the pictures and they fill almost two albums. Maybe it was knowing that one day someone like me would look at the pictures and reflect on the true nature of war. Who knows. But whatever his reasons I'm glad he saved them. The effect of looking at the albums is sobering. Not much glory there in Grandpa's photo. He l... more...

Politics » History | By Adrian Adams @ Friday, 3rd August 2007 @ 6:00 PM

No, I'm not talking about weight loss. The Battle of the Bulge, known to the Allied military forces as The Battle of Ardennes, was the bloodiest battle of World War II, and one of the most horrific encounters in the history of modern warfare. The German plan was for this battle, along with three others (known to the Germans as Bodenplatte, Greif, and Wahrung) to sever the Allied line, splitting their forces in two, capturing Antwerp, Belgium, and destroying four Allied armies. more...

Politics » History | By Chris Pizzo @ Sunday, 3rd June 2007 @ 6:06 PM

When you look into military history, some armies stand out well above the rest. The ancient of warriors of Rome are among those elite few that did everything right. They were organized, well equipped, well trained, and had the attitude that they deserved to win. Rome did not collapse because of its fighting men, but because of corruption and the lack of strength of its policy makers. The Romans understood the warrior principles of always taking ground, and to never to stop fighting. They ... more...

Politics » History | By Adrian Adams @ Wednesday, 30th May 2007 @ 8:04 PM

The battle of Iwo Jima took place between the United States and Japan in 1945, but it was no ordinary battle. The Japanese warriors went in knowing they would not come back out alive from the tunnels they had built. Yet each warrior had a specific mission - to kill at least 10 U.S. Marines before they were killed. The battle took place over the island of Iwo Jima that belonged to Japan. The United States wanted control of it because it was between the bomber bases of the U.S. and Japan. ... more...

Politics » History | By Jimmy Cox @ Monday, 21st May 2007 @ 10:50 PM

From about the year 1930 calligraphy writing and lettering had made such progress that it had become a subject in the training of Art Teachers and was taught by the immediate followers of the two who had given their lives to its cause. Lettering of Today, first volume, published in 1937, showed the work of some of these who had taken up the craft and were in their turn passing it on to the new generation. Under post-war conditions the subject suffered a setback; writing materials had sudd... more...

Politics » History | By Chris Pizzo @ Saturday, 19th May 2007 @ 6:10 PM

Rivalries aside, most people agree the Marine Corp trains some of Uncle Sam's toughest warriors. Sadly, the Marines, like so many military organizations, have fallen prey to political correctness in modern times. In 2001, the Marines switched from their battle proven close combat methods in favor of a system that is designed to "subdue" rather then kill an attacker. Funny, I never thought the Marines had a problem with killing people before...And the scumbag terrorists... more...