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Nigerian civil war known as Nigeria-Biafra War and its untold History was a civil war in Nigeria from 6 July 1967 to 15 January 1970.During the two and half years of the war, there were about 1000,000 overall military casualties, while between 500,000 and 3 million Biafran ... Read more...
Keywords: History, Civil War, Biafra, Nigeria
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Herodotus's Account of Egypt is the second book of the Histories, which contains descriptions of the marvels of the south: the size of the land, the wonders of the Nile, the religious ceremonies which will be as fascinating to the modern reader as it was to the ancient. Fro... Read more...
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The book takes the form of ten letters addressed to Lockhart, the epistolary mode permitting Scott to be both conversational in tone and discursive in method. In these, Scott surveys opinions respecting demonology and witchcraft from the Old Testament period to his own day.... Read more...
Keywords: letters on demonology and witchcraft, sir walter scott, history, demonology, witchcraft, demons, witches
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As the conception of a deity originated in sex, or in the creative agencies female and male which animate Nature, we may reasonably expect to find, in the history of the development of the two sex-principles and in the notions entertained concerning them throughout past age... Read more...
Keywords: sex in religion, the god idea, of the ancients, gamble, sexualiy and fertility, sex and creativity, genital worship
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The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have been subord... Read more...
Keywords: the last days of pompeii, edward bulwer lytton, pompeii, ancient roman history, the roman empire, roman culture, historical fiction, ancient rome, edward bulwer-lytton
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I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances,... Read more...
Keywords: incidents in the, life of a slave girl, biography, autobiopraphy, memior, an american slave, american slavery, american history, slave history us history
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In United States history, the Gilded Age is a period approximately spanning the final three decades of the nineteenth century; from the 1870s to 1900. The term was coined by Mark TwainThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, satirizing what he believed to be an era of serious socia... Read more...
Keywords: the gilded age, mark twain, american history, satire, american literature, political corruption, economic exploitation
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Narrating his experiences in Africa, Baker has dwelled upon the wild and untamed beauty of the land. He elaborates the culture of the people, their religion as well as the wild-life and its habitat. The book offers a detailed study of the area with a profound personal touch... Read more...
Keywords: the heart of africa, historic travel book, african history, africa, african religions, african cultures, exploration, wild life, animals of africa
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism.
After a preliminary visit to the Canary Islands, K... Read more...
Keywords: travels in west africa, mary kingsley, african history, colonial history, west african culture, exploration, historic travel book
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The Borgia family became prominent during the Renaissance in Italy. They were from Valencia, the name coming from the family fief of Borja, then in the kingdom of Aragon, in Spain. The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 15th and 16th cen... Read more...
Keywords: the borgias, alexandre dumas, celebrated crimes, pope, notorious family, power and intrigue, murder and sex
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