JatauHistory Christmas under the Puritans historytoday.com - J.A.R. Pimlott Both the religious and the secular celebration of Christmas was forbidden by the English Puritan republic, but by no means everywhere with …
JatauHistory The true story of the nativity: how much is known about the birth of Jesus? historyextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin Can we take the story of Christmas as gospel? Writing for BBC History Revealed, Spencer Mizen thumbs through the conflicting accounts of Christ's …
JatauCulture How Manifest Destiny Stretched the U.S. From Sea to Shining Sea howstuffworks.com - John Donovan The woman in white floats above the verdant plain, eyes turned westward, a star glowing on her forehead. She is a phantasm, hovering at the center of …
JatauBooks ‘Bah! Humbug!’: How Charles Dickens grew sick of Christmas The Telegraph - By Lucy Davies‘A Christmas Carol’ invented the holiday as we know it – but turned Charles Dickens into Scrooge, discovers Lucy Davies “Mr Dickens stirs the gravy,” reported a rapt member of the audience at a reading
JatauChristmas 5 festive facts from BBC Two’s QI historyextra.com - Emma Mason The festive season is well and truly upon us, but how much do you know about the history of Christmas? Here, we bring you a festive extract from the …
JatauHistory The Crystal Palace was constructed of iron and glass – so how and why did it burn down? historyextra.com - Charlotte Hodgman When fire struck the Crystal Palace on 30 November 1936, years of wear and tear, and lack of finance to repair it, had left it in poor condition. The …
JatauHistory The teashop empire historyextra.com - Rachel Dinning Thomas Harding describes how a family of Jewish immigrants to Britain in the 19th century created one of the country’s best-known food …
JatauHistory Is the world still living in the shadow of the crusades? historyextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin For several centuries in the Middle Ages, Christians waged a ‘holy war’ aiming in part – ostensibly, at least – to liberate the Holy Land. Six …
JatauScience How the Medieval Catholic Church triggered rise of individualistic Western societies The Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonThe Catholic Churchhas a reputation for strict unbending theology, but it may have inadvertently triggered the non-conformist and individual culture of today’s western societies, researchers believe. now
JatauScience How the early Christian church gave birth to today’s WEIRD Europeans sciencemag.org - Michael Price In September 506 C.E., the fathers of what would later become the Roman Catholic Church gathered in southern France to draw up dozens of new laws. …
Jatau The Gunpowder Plot historytoday.com - Pauline Croft The Gunpowder Plot is one of the most notorious events in British history. The shock it caused can still be sensed in the words of the House of …
JatauHistory “As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?” Michael Wood explores the controversy historyextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin The history world has been afire with a debate about Anglo-Saxon studies. Involving accusations of elitism, racism and sexism, the arguments have …
Jatau Why Britain punched above its weight historyextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin What’s truly remarkable about Britain’s story is not its post-imperial ‘decline’ but the fact that it became a global superpower in the first place. …
Jatau How beer came to medieval England medievalists.net Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink in the United Kingdom. It might be a surprise to some readers to know that this beverage was only introduced …
Jatau Reclaiming America for Amerigo Vespucci The Guardian - LettersDr Louis B Quesnel dismisses a claim that Columbus had anything to do with the continent’s name and presents the evidence for America being named after Vespucci Colin Moffat (Letters, 14 October) claims
Jatau The Early Church Thrived Amid Secularism and Shows How We Can, Too christianitytoday.com - Gerald L. Sittser I attended seminary in the 1970s. I had to take several classes in the history of Christianity, though in those days it was called “church history.” …
Jatau Why Machiavelli Still Terrifies Us 500 Years Later defensemaven.io - Warrior Maven Warrior Video Above: New Technology Brings New Electronic Warfare Attacks Of all the writers in the “realist” canon—from Thucydides and Hobbes to …
Jatau Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero National Geographic - Francisco del Rio SanchezA self-taught scholar was responsible for finding the world’s first epic myth hidden among broken clay tablets in the British Museum. Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets
JatauHistory The Black Legend Written in Silver historytoday.com - Linda Newson Potosí’s fame came not only from its wealth, but also its notoriety for appalling working conditions. A dry, cold, desolate mountain in the high Andes …
Jatau The Puzzles of Thermopylae historytoday.com - Chris Carey The story of 300 Greeks withstanding the might of Persia at the Thermopylae pass is well known. But how accurate is it? And, with few sources, how …
Jatau Israeli archaeologists claim to discover ancient city phys.org Israel's Antiquities Authority on Sunday said that researchers have discovered the remains of a large, 5,000-year-old city that sheds new light on …
Jatau Something Happened in 146 BC That Significantly Affects Your Business Today Entrepreneur - Gene MarksA moment in history will help your appreciate your competitors. I'll do the math for you: 146 BC was 2,165 years ago. That's a very long time. But something happened that year that not only changed the
JatauOpinion Cook's arrival was a disaster for Māori. Britain's half-hearted apology isn't good enough The Guardian - Tina NgataAs we mark 250 years since the arrival of Captain Cook in New Zealand, we are still seeing crimes against indigenous peoples and their territories If you look back at photographs of the 1969 bicentennial
Jatau The story of Sierra Leone's Krio people - in pictures BBC NewsThe Krio people of Sierra Leone are partly descended from former enslaved Africans who fought for the British in the American War of Independence, in exchange for promises of freedom. After the American
Jatau 10 Unsolved Mysteries About Ancient Greece modernismo.me Ancient Greece is often seen as the birthplace of Western civilization. It’s also credited with founding some of the earliest institutions devoted to …
Jatau The Mongol Invasion of Europe ancient.eu - Mark Cartwright The Mongol invasions of Russia and Eastern Europe occurred first with a brief sortie in 1223 CE and then again in a much larger campaign between 1237 …
Jatau The monstrous Minotaur riveted ancient Greece and Rome National Geographic - Amaranta SbardellaPrisoner of the Labyrinth, the half man, half bull was a favorite legend for centuries, revealing the intertwined cultures of the Mediterranean world. Deep inside the Labyrinth on the island of Crete a
Jatau Sorry, But You're Not Going To Pass This 11th-Grade AP US History Test BuzzFeed - Dave StoperaGood luck! The belief that a nation should have as little regulation on trade as possible. The belief that a nation should export more than it imports. The belief that a nation should tax its colonists
Jatau Margaret Thatcher biography: From the highest office in the land to no office or suitable home to call her own The Telegraph - By Charles MooreToppled by the men in suits, an angry Margaret Thatcher struggles to adjust to the new realities of life as a civilian, adoping a position as the nation's 'back-street driver' - much to the fury of her