North-West Frontier Province

apart from some tributes and accolades of grace. The Persians and the Kurds threatened the eastern frontiers; the Mamelukes oppressed Egypt, Syria was in open rebellion and the people of Turkey in Europe seemed to be no finer subjected than those of Asia. The anarchism was so much that the bands of robbers were established in Balkans, Rhodope and Pindus, which resorted and devastated all provinces. Among those bands one was imposed a hefty contribution upon the other city of the empire, that is,…

Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland would take place later that year. About a thousand Virginians (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) rose up in arms against the rule of Virginia Governor William Berkeley. Berkeley had recently refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier…

1 The Question of Sabon Gari Phenomenon in Katsina Metropolis, 1903-2011 Samuel Wycliff Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria samuelwycliff@yahoo.ca and samwycliff@gmail.com 08060510055, 08053430606 Abstract The history of Sabon Gari system in Northern Nigeria has received attention from scholars, yet the absence of such settlements in some of the Northern cities and towns has not been addressed. This paper examined the reasons for its absence in Katsina metropolis unlike…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…