Great Fire of London

unconventional laws formed by the British Parliament. Multitudes of people had their basic rights infringed upon with institutions of laws including but not limited to the quartering act, the stamp act, and the molasses act. Notably, Benjamin Franklin was a great influencer before, during, and after the American revolution; he was very much so a fan to the flames. Franklin’s “join or die” campaign and other works of his brought determination to the people, and caused them to further express…

In Loughran’s article, Shell Shock, Trauma, and the First World War: The Making of a Diagnosis and Its Histories, Loughran gives great insight about PTSD incidents that happened during the war. Some soldiers came out of the trenches stuttering, trembling or even blind. First documented during WWI, soldiers had nightmares when they accidently killed a comrade. Those situations could…

represented, both back then in Dickensian London, and now, -when everything is still not yet ok even if the nice philanthropic capitalists have been so charitable and yet everything is no longer grim up north, and all this is just history and academics and novels. In the footnotes of Marx’s chapter we can find Thomas Macaulay, and we should recall this fine talker was considered a child prodigy at age 8 when he asked if the smoke from the factory chimney’s came from the fires of hell. We will…

in America today. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actor, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. Poe was a peculiar boy growing up, but he wrote plenty of great stories such as “The Angel of the Odd”, “The Raven” and “Tamerlane”. Edgar Allan Poe wrote short stories and was a poet. Edgar Allan Poe parents, Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr. both were traveling actors in search for some money…

perception in his work. Raphael had some amazing talents but they were often over looked by people because they were more interested Michelangelo and DaVinci works of art. Even though Raphael is often in the shadow of other artists, he was still one of the great artists of the Renaissance. Raphael Sanzio in Italian his name is pronounced Raffaello Sanzio he was born in the small town of Urbino, Italy on April 6th, 1483. Raphael received training early which was taught by his father, Raphael’s…

It is within human nature to both witness and partake in the application of double standards at some point in the course of one’s life. Whether this occurrence takes the form of a trivial or pivotal event will depend upon a great many variables, including an individual’s tendency towards honesty or deception. There may be vast differences between innocently-intended “little white lies” and selfishly-maneuvered “whoppers,” whether the untruths are told to oneself or to another. This is…

Isa was a great prophet of Allah’s and predicts the coming of Muhammad. Isa was never crucified, according to Islam but did have apostles who followed and taught his message. That is Jesus, the son of Mary - the word of truth about which they are in dispute. It is…

drink was mead, made from fermented honey. (Honey was very important to the Saxons as there was no sugar for sweetening food. Bees were kept in every village). Upper class Anglo Saxons sometimes drank wine. The women cooked in iron cauldrons over open fires or in pottery vessels. They also made butter and cheese. Saxons ate from wooden bowls. There were no forks only knives and wooden spoons. Cups were made from cow horn. The Anglo Saxons were fond of meat and fish. However meat was a luxury and…

flight was developing and the first manned flight took place on the 9th January 1793 the pilot was Jean- pierre Blanchard. George Washington observed the launch. Airships, blimps became popular until the Hindenburg, a luxurious passenger airship caught fire killing 35…

Canadian particularly those located in London’s attempts at achieving autonomy and their contributions toward the larger resistance. Devoted to the interests of the Darker Races, the newspaper acts as an emblem of the internationalization or the catching fire of the ideals that existed during the American Civil Rights Movement. “I do digital history because my goal is to contribute to what scholars, students, and ordinary Americans know about African American history. Over 8,000 people visited…