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  • Haifa- We Bet This Makes You Sing Sol-Fa  By : Roberto Bell
    The most beautiful and cosmopolitan city of Israel is Haifa. The city stretches from the shores of the Mediterranean to the peak of Mount Carmel. This clean and green city is one of the major ports of Israel too.
  • Ivarr The Boneless Ragnarsson  By : Fred Watson
    Ivar known in Old Norse as Ivarr “Beinlauss” possible meaning, bone-loose or bone-less. (Could it be that he suffered from brittle bone disease or was he simply double jointed or could he have been exceptionally tall and loose limbed). What ever his disability was, if it was indeed a disability, it certainly did not affect his mind.
  • Was Robin Hood A Yorkshireman?  By : Fred Watson
    As a boy I was brought up on tales of Robin Hood and his merry men, as were my children and now, with a new series on the small screen, my children's children. We also lived for ten years in a small Yorkshire village near to Wentbridge called Little Smeaton, hence my interest in the Yorkshire connections to Robin Hood.
  • London Bridge Is Falling Down  By : Fred Watson
    London Bridge is falling down,
    Falling down, falling down,
    London Bridge is falling down,
    My fair lady.
    So goes the old nursery rhyme that most likely records the destruction of the bridge by Olaf the Norwegian Viking.
  • Sicily Hotels - Great Places to Visit  By : IC
    Learn more about Sicily, a beautiful Mediterranean island which has a lot to offer. Get more details about it's foods, the local weather and places tourists must visit.
  • 101 Ismaili Heroes Volume 1  By : Dr. D.S. Merchant
    This book represents the first known attempt to prepare a comprehensive and well-researched collection of biographies of one hundred and one eminent individuals who have helped to shape the Ismaili Community during the last two centuries. The table of contents, which lists the names of these individuals in alphabetical order, includes such giants as Alidina Visram, Laljibhai Devraj, Major Lakhpati, Fidai Khorassani. The author has also included many less well-known individuals, whose contributions have not been widely recognised, but are as important if not more so. These biographies are preceded by a foreword and preface.
  • Civil War Medicine  By : Ken Stover
    Civil War medicine was a far cry from today's medical technology. Back during the Civil War medical practices were pretty inept and ineffective.
  • How to Conduct a Public Records Search  By : Davion W
    Public records search can be performed through many different ways. Just to name a few, it can be your school, library, courts, the local municipal office, government agencies and even at places of worship. However, there are governing rules pertaining to the access of public information as well as the way you use the information retrieved from public records search.
  • An inside look at Muslim Turkey; is Turkey right for the EU?  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This is an inside look at the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, historical, social, and linguistic dimensions of Turkey. It also analyses the issue of Islam in Europe as well as their controversial entry into the EU. Is Turkey by any means European? Do the Turks have any right to merge with Europe as the US and EU encourage?
  • History of the Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, & Yugoslavia (800-2007)  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This essay offers the history of the turbulent cultural & social relationship between the Slavic Croatians (Croats), Bosnians, and the Serbs from their medieval foundations, to their division between support for the socialists and the Fascists in World War II, and to the calamities of Yugoslavia until its total collapse and today. It tracks the historical decay from an ethnically-based Slavic alliance of Yugoslavia followed by a shift to bitter hatred between three cultures of the same seed.
  • An inside look at Romania, Land of Dracula & the Gypsies  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This is an inside look at the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, social, and linguistic dimensions of eastern Romania, complete with photos from my 2007 vacation. It also investigates the issue of Islam in Europe.
  • History of Italy & Western Europe: from Roman rule to Germanic  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This essay is twofold: firstly, a thorough historical background into the internal decline and external conquest of the Roman empire by "barbarian" Germanic, Hunnish, and Slavic peoples, and the shift of historical control and advancement of Europe from Italian to Germanic peoples. Secondly, a first-hand look at the ancient Roman and Germanic Gothic capital of Ravenna.
  • Were pre-Christian German/Norse "gods" historical kings?  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This article firstly describes the pre-Christian common religion of the Germans and Scandinavians, and then probes the possible historic links of this religion and its gods as actual derivations of history. As this can neither be proven nor disproven, this essay simply probes all possibilities.
  • Sources on pre-Christian German/Norse Religion  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This is an introduction and brief analysis of the ancient Edda texts written by Snorri Sturlusson in the 12th century. It is the major source of our knowledge regarding pre-Christian Germanic and Norse religion.
  • An inside look at Slavic Bulgaria, land of the Masters of Gold & the Gyspies  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This is an inside look at the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, social, and linguistic dimensions of Bulgaria, complete with photos from my 2007 vacation. It also analyses the issue of Islam in Europe, the Gypsy race, and the mysterious masters of gold, the Thracians.
  • An inside look at Albania, Europe's only Muslim nation  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This is a rare inside look on the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, social, and linguistic dimensions of Albania, Europe's sole Muslim nation. It also investigates the role of Islam in Europe.
  • A 10th-century Arab's depiction of Ancient Russia  By : European Heritage Alliance
    This article regards the cultural, ethnic, and political primary sources of 10th-century Abbasid Arab Muslim traveler and ambassador Ahmad ibn Fadlan in his journey along the Volga river basin, including his depictions of the pre-Christian European Finns, Slavs, and the Turkic Muslim Bulgar tribes.
  • Sister Betty X Shabazz  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    Betty X (born Betty Jean Sanders) lived from May 28, 1936 to June 23, 1997. The widow of civil rights leader Malcolm X, she died three weeks after being severely burned in a fire allegedly set by her 12-year-old grandson. Shabazz's funeral service was held at the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City. Betty Shabazz was buried next to her husband, Malcolm X, at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. There is a major mosque in Harlem named after Sister Betty X Shabazz.
  • Mrs. Coretta Scott King  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    Mrs. Coretta Scott King (born April 27, 1927, died January 30, 2006) was a noted civil rights leader, author and singer. She founded the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is still one of the most influential women leaders in worldwide. Well prepared for a life committed to social justice and peace, she had been a victim of discrimination all her life. So she entered the world stage in 1955 as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When they met at Boston College, he literally swept her off her feet.
  • The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was a man of a googolplex of titles given him from a wide variety of sources, including many grateful colleges and widespread Southern universities. He was born with the name Michael King, but his father had a special mission in mind for him. So the elder King changed both their names to Martin Luther King - and the birth documents were appropriately switched around so his son could be called “Junior.”
  • Renaissance and Nazism as Ideas of Progress  By : Sam Vaknin
    Adolf Hitler put it more succinctly:

    "The new age of today is at work on a new human type. Men and women are to be healthier, stronger: there is a new feeling of life, a new joy in life."
  • Germany's Fourth Reich  By : Sam Vaknin
    Germany's sprawling and all-pervasive civil service routinely uses red tape and regulatory powers to stifle dissent, punish adversaries of the regime, and reward cronies of the powers-that-be.
  • Chief Sealth and the Independent Living Movement  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    OUR Center Park of the City of Seattle, named after local Native American leader Chief Sealth, was founded by “Our Lady” Ida May Daly. This wheelchair using soul had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, or MS. While dying of this devastating illness, she procured enough public and private donations to buy a large square city block of land. It was located in an undervalued black and Catholic neighborhood five miles south of downtown metropolitan Seattle.
  • Alfred And The Cakes  By : Fred Watson
    Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia, had all fallen to the Danish invaders, leaving Wessex as the only Saxon kingdom not yet under the thrall of the Danes. Despite being hard pressed by the invaders, The Saxon King, Ethelred with his younger brother Alfred (Aelfred) at his side, won a stunning victory over the enemy on the 8th of January 871 at Ashdown.
  • Segregation in Sixty-Seven  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    When things were religiously, sexually and racially segregated, to the point of all obscurity, and nothing was real, nothing was right, and the world was upside down - I was not unhappy, because it matched my real mood at the time: overly boisterous and underly depressed. I only wanted to be a typical kid and have fun, but with segregation on, what was “typical?”
  • The Physically Challenged II  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    I and my husband once worked as nurse aides at the first apartment building in the nation built specifically for people in wheelchairs, namely Center Park, which shares the same initials as cerebral palsy, one of the world’s most common severe physical disabilities. There is a huge United Cerebral Palsy Residential Center in Seattle, Washington, USA, and many people with cerebral palsy live at Center Park as well. It’s right next door to the Lighthouse for the Blind, and some blind people live in Center Park as well.
  • The Physically Challenged I  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    Do you think if you knew your life was short, you would bother to help others? At the most, your place would not be there - ere long. If such “places” were even available, as their beds are often full, you personally might be forced back into whatever disabled and for the handicapped institutions you had left behind, to try for independent living at Center Park. How would you know if it would be worthwhile to live or work there?
  • The Independent Living Movement II  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    What is the Independent Living Movement in Seattle, WA, the USA about? It and the aspects of it with which I was involved have changed, somewhat, from what I saw when there at Center Park.
  • The Independent Living Movement I  By : Karen Cole Peralta
    I will start off by informing you that there is no real difference between the words “disabled” and “handicapped,” except for the linguistic ones. They both refer to physically challenged people, who often need special living accommodations.
  • Fresco Techniques  By : Clyde Lee Dennis
    Information on Fresco Techniques

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