[pWashington lost the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, and was force to retreat toward Philadelphia.
Near the same time, British General Burgoyne's troops marched south from Canada toward Albany, New York,...
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8, 1974, left a cryptic warning of the Middle East "... so that the cradle of civilization will not...
Frederick the Great of Prussia called these ten days "the most brilliant in the world's history."
After winning the Battle of Trenton, Christmas Day evening, 1776, George Washington's 1,200...
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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
Perhaps no one had...
Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe.
Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...
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In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the third Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist Pastor, Reverend...
Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens.
In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9:
"States are as the...
"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika.
Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, are a group based in Yemen, primarily of the Zaidi Shia Muslim minority. Their origins trace back to a religious movement in the 1990s, and they gained prominence in the early 2000s under the leadership of Hussein al-Houthi.
