American history demands to be mapped. The stories of exploration, the colonies, the Louisiana Purchase, and so on are incomplete without maps to locate historical places, events, and conflicts. Yet maps can do more for the history teacher than simply illustrating what happened where or what ...
Collection of famous and memorable historical events happened around the world in the year 2001, nicely categorized month wise and many more.
The explosion happened beside a bus which was about to set off for an overnight journey from Nairobi to the Ugandan capital Kampala. Some eyewitnesses report that a bag was about to be loaded on board, but it exploded during a security check. Windows of the red bus were left smashed, and...
Collection of famous and memorable historical events happened around the world in the year 1891, nicely categorized month wise and many more.
Scott James: And the nightclub operator there was so angry when he saw what had happened in Rhode Island, he went public, and he even made public the contract that he had with Great White that showed there was no evidence of fireworks that were going to be part of the show. ...
In fact, most people who develop cancer have no family history of cancer, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) (美国妇产科医师学会), which sponsored the survey. "Too many women are dying from cancer," Dr. Douglas W. Laube, ACOG’s immediate past presid...
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What Happened to Historythe novel, has always both imitated and parodied writing of historyDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) first novel in English, on “real﹍ife” adventures of a castaway“new historicism” and “historiographic metafiction” emerging in the 1980s...
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Whatever Happened to the American Stock Exchange? The American Stock Exchange, known as AMEX, was acquired by NYSE Euronext in a merger that was completed in early 2009.12It is now known as NYSE American and remains a marketplace for the trading of index options and the shares of small and...