… that lasted from 1618 to 1648. The battles were mainly fought in Germany. The struggle was initially based on the religious conflicts among Germans by the Protestant Reformation, but it was later influenced by other issues, including dynastic…

… 14,1912 a great ship called the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. That night there were many warnings of icebergs from other ships. There seems to be a conflict on whether or not the warnings reached the bridge. We may never know the answer to…

… the Tower The Tower of London has been many things over the years such as a fortress, a state prison, a zoo, an armory, repository for the crown jewels, a home for Tudor monarchs, and today a museum. Inside the tower walls has been the last sight…

… up in Venice, Italy. He was born in 1254 while his father and uncle were on their first journey to China. Marco's mother died while he was still very young and he was raised by an aunt and uncle. They taught him all the skills needed to be a merchant.…

… off with the 30 day voyage across the mighty Atlantic. Not knowing that I would be sent to the well established colony of Jamestown. I would be staying with the average family. They are to let me stay on account of rent from my publisher in England.…

… The great injustice was the Tuskegee study. I was a study performed in 1932 on 600 African-American men. 399 of the men were infected with the STD. syphilis and 201 of them were not infected with the disease. All of these men were uneducated and…

… It is just a little bit bigger than Texas. It has a magnificent past that has lasted for many centuries. It is a land of many cultures, decorated with the most amazing ruins and monuments ever seen by man. Turkey is in southwestern Asia and it…

… were very unusual time periods in American History. In some ways they are alike, but in most ways they are very different. The twenties were a time of fun and partying. This is probably the reason it is called the Roaring Twenties. All of the thirties…

… through a turbulant period of expansion and reoriganiztion. In the years between 1861 and 1865 there was a civil war between the northern and southern states. It was the bloodiest war in American history. What were the causes of this horrible conflict.…

… in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile radars.…