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La Nube di Oort – Ernesto Giorgi I difetti del genere umano, la prevaricazione dei capi, le ingiustizie e la schiavitù delle masse dipendono da stretti motivi biologici ed antropologici, collegati s……続きを見る

The following pages contain translations of the first two of these works. The "Germany," the full title of which is "Concerning the situation, manners and inhabitants of Germany," contains little of……続きを見る

THE century subsequent to the peace of Westphalia is distinguished as the age of Louis the Fourteenth, that monarch being the sun by which it was illumined, and whose splendor was reflected by all t……続きを見る

The Russians themselves will say at times they have no history. Some, like Tchaadáyef of old, deplore the fact in melancholy strain, passionate and eloquent, nor can anything console them for having……続きを見る

In order to obtain a clear understanding of Byzantine civilization, to visualize the mode of life and the dominant tastes in this vanished society, and to realize the mentality of the Greeks in the ……続きを見る

L’irrequietudine del tutto, e il forte odore della creazione. Il sorgere degli Dei, la creazione del mondo, la nascita dell’uomo, il Diluvio Universale. L’indifferenza dei grandi Dei, gli Annunaki, ……続きを見る

Of Ammianus Marcellinus, the writer of the following History, we know very little more than what can be collected from that portion of it which remains to us. From that source we learn that he was a……続きを見る

Alla veneranda età di trentuno secoli, Palermo è ancora una città viva e palpitante. I suoi quartieri, il vecchio centro storico stanno rinascendo pian piano e se un nuovo volto sta iniziando a sple……続きを見る

THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an in……続きを見る

THE Roman Imperial Cult began with the first Caesar and continued until the final overthrow of paganism in the Empire. An exhaustive study of the Cult in all its ramifications would practically invo……続きを見る

Twice since the Norman Conquest has the little country of England been the center of an empire: once when Henry II of England was at the same time master of half France; and now again when the Union……続きを見る

Before the murderers of Domitian raised their hands to strike the fatal blow, they looked around, we read, to find a successor to replace him. Others whom they sounded on the subject shrunk away in ……続きを見る

The “Handbook of the Sexual Revolution” is a collection of provocative writings by Lasse Braun (a.k.a. LB) who’s known as one of the most enterprising sexual revolutionaries of the last four decades……続きを見る

Among my first passions was that for exploration. The Unknownーthat region of mysteries lying upon the outskirts of commonplace environmentーdrew me with a mighty attraction. My earliest recollectio……続きを見る

WHO were these Variagi, or Varangians? To what race did they belong? No questions in the early history of Russia are more eagerly debated. After more than a century of controversy, the various views……続きを見る

A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieutenant James Cook, in the Endeavour, in the year 1770. W……続きを見る

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology. The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day, if he wis……続きを見る

The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of……続きを見る

One wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper woman. I was too impatient ……続きを見る

The story of the beginning of my collection of masks is curious and perhaps interesting. The half-dozen casts upon which it is based were found, early in the Sixties, in a dust-bin in one of the old……続きを見る

India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Steel. A history, above all one which claims to hold no original research, but simply to be a compilation of the……続きを見る

LIKE the Serbs, but unlike the Albanians, the Bulgarians are not autochthonous inhabitants of the Balkan country to which they have given their name. It was not till 679 that this Finnish or Tartar ……続きを見る

The loss or desolation of the provinces, from the Ocean to the Alps, impaired the glory and greatness of Rome: her internal prosperity was irretrievably destroyed by the separation of Africa. The ra……続きを見る

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan raceーa division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavo……続きを見る

The Semitic stock occupied a place amidst, and yet aloof from, the nations of the ancient classical world. The true centre of the former lay in the east, that of the latter in the region of the Medi……続きを見る

The Great Events of World History continues with Volume 13! Featuring: JOHN LAW PROMOTES THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME, by Louis Thiers PRINCE EUGENE VANQUISHES THE TURKS – SIEGE AND BATTLE OF BELGRAD, by ……続きを見る

The only great state with which the Roman empire bordered was the empire of Iran, based upon that nationality which was best known in antiquity, as it is in the present day, under the name of the Pe……続きを見る

The Parthians do not appear in history until a comparatively recent period. Their name occurs nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures. They obtain no mention in the Zendavesta. The Assyrian Inscript……続きを見る

No one who visits both Rome and Athens at the present day can fail to be struck by one remarkable difference between the two famous cities, which stand for so much in the history of the world. While……続きを見る

Amidst the incessant influx of the Asiatic nations into Europe, during the slow decline of the Roman empire, and the migrations occasioned by their arrival, we should vainly attempt to trace the des……続きを見る