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Europe Annexes the African Continent
In 1871 there occurred one of the strangest meetings in history. The place was Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in the
Progress in Ways of Living Continue Down the Centuries
It was the evening of December 17, 1903, when Bishop Wright in his home at Dayton, Ohio received the following
Industrial Revolution brings New Problems and Solutions
We remember how Rip Van Winkle, the famous character in Irving’s Sketch Book, fell asleep for 20 years. When poor
Early Civilizations to Modern Age
England’s First Victory 1775
The British in Boston had no reason for suspecting anything unusual on the night of June 16, 1775 but across
Good King George and the Dragon 1775
Samuel Adams was an unhappy man. He moved among the other delegates to Congress like a lonely, silent shadow, keeping
A Divided Country 1776
One chilly morning in April, General Howe stepped out of his Boston headquarters and stared in amazement at a hill
Distant Past and New Challenges
Milestones of History
Sung Dynasty, Golden Age of Artistic Achievement (955-982 A. D.)
The birth of Hungary The battle of the Lechfeld, which was so important to Western Europe, had an equally profound
Norsemen and Vikings (982 A. D.)
Norsemen or Vikings – Danes, Norwegians and Swedes — were terrorizing the greater part of Europe, over a thousand years
Hugh Capet (982 – 1066 A. D.)
Hugh Capet was coronated in 987 and with that, began the French dominance of Europe. During the eleventh century, a