According to the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (my emphasis): No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but i…
More than 25 years passed for researchers to find elements of the ancient Mayan kingdom Sak Tz’i ’. The archaeological site is called Lacanja Tzeltal and is located in the current city of Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico, in the border area with Guatemala.The excavation that led to the find began in 2018 and was led by Charles Golden, associate professor of Archeology at Brandeis University, together with bioarchaeologist Andrew Scherer, from Brown University (both from the USA).
Edgar Allan Poe is bornOn January 19, 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts. After attending school in ...read more“The Raven” is publishedEdgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once upon a midnight dreary,” is published on this day in the New York Evening Mirror.
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There is a huge and interesting argument on whether it was legal for the States which became the Confederacy to leave the Union. I can see interesting points in both sides of this argument. I come…
Battle of Magnano, 5 April 1799The battle of Magnano (5 April 1799) was a French defeat early in the War of the Second Coalition that ended any chance of their expelling the Austrians from northern Italy before Russian reinforcements could reach the area.At the end of the War of the First Coalition Austrian had gained all of the Veneto (the land provinces of Venice) east of the Adige River, while the French occupied much of the rest of northern Italy.
In This Day In History video clip: May, 3, 1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli Born - On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.
MadisonJames Madison was the fourth President of the United States. See James Madison (DANFS 111, 496) for Pres!dent Madison& 39;s biography.Commander James Jonas Madison, born 20 May 1888 in Jersey City, N.J., was appointed lieutenant in the Naval Reserve 8 May 1917. As commanding officer of Ticonderoga 30 September 1918 when she was attacked and sunk by enemy submarine,,, Commander Madison, in spite of severe wounds which later necessitated Me amputation of a leg, continued to direct and maneuver the ship until forced to order her abandoned.
