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Slave trade of the West Indian Company

The West Indian Company (1621-1791) was the counterpart of the united East Indian Company (VOC). Whereas the VOC aimed at the trade with Asia, the WIC got the exclusive right for the trade between Africa and America.
Slave trade of the West Indian Company

Voltaire

The French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) was born in Paris as François Marie Arouet and is regarded as the most important philosopher of the Enlightenment. Voltaire did not write only philosophical books and essays but also dramas, novels, historical books, theater reviews and essays on criminal laws and politics.
Voltaire

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was a German National Socialist official and head of the Nazi police forces. He was the son of a Catholic schoolmaster and received a diploma in agriculture. After the First World War Heinrich Himmler joined militant rightist organizations.
Heinrich Himmler

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis and his strong television appearance made him a very popular president.
John F. Kennedy

Titanic Disaster

Just before midnight, on April 14, 1912, the British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton after a collision with a huge iceberg. About 1500 passengers including ship personnel were killed in the disaster.
Titanic Disaster

Bridge at Remagen

While American troops crossed the Rhine the Germans made desperate attempts to destroy the bridge by bombing and even by employing frogmen, but in ten days time 40,000 soldiers crossed the bridge.
Bridge at Remagen

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929. At the age of 15 he entered Morehouse College under a special program for gifted students.
At Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, King became acquainted with Ghandi's philosophy of nonviolence.
Martin Luther King became a national prominence through the organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His greatest success was the ending of legal segregation of blacks in the US.
Martin Luther King Jr

Where God was born

Where God was born combines the adventure of a wartime chronicle, the excitement of an archaeological detective story, and the insight of personal spiritual exploration. Taking readers to biblical sites not seen by Westerners for decades, Bruce Feiler's journey uncovers little-known details about the common roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and affirms the importance of the Bible in today's world.
Where God was born

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's achievements are not just milestones in the history of science; decades ago they became an integral part of the twentieth-century world in which we live. Like no other modern physicist he altered and expanded our understanding of nature. Like few other scholars, he stood fully in the public eye.
Albert Einstein

Dollar Crisis

The US has been transformed from the largest creditor to the world's greatest debtor. Americans are by far the biggest consumers around the world. Furthermore, the West has used up nearly half of the world's ready oil supply, in just a few generations.
Dollar Crisis

Battle of London

London at the outset of war in 1939 was the greatest city in the world, the heart of the British Empire. The defiant capital had always been Adolf Hitler's prime target and 1945, the last year of the war, saw the final phase of the battle of London.
The Blitz and other bombing by the German airforce during World War II killed over 30,000 Londoners and flattened large tracts of housing and other buildings across London. The first air raids on London were mainly aimed at the Port of London in the East End.
London 1945

First black heavyweight champion

Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebrated-and most reviled-African American of his age.
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson

Our mothers' war

Our mothers' war is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book.
Women during World War II

In cold blood

On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God - or, as some believed, of the Indian chief Tecumseh.
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards

Oppression in black life

Killing rage speaks to this imbalance. These twenty-three essays, most of them new works, are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it. Bell Hooks defiantly creates positive plans for the future rather than dwell in theories of a crisis beyond repair.
Killing rage

Hirsh Goodman

Hirsh Goodman was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1946. Goodman immigrated to Israel in 1965 and since 1971 has been a journalist, starting as the military reporter for the Jerusalem Post and later he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report. Hirsh Goodman has been a contributing editor to U.S. News & World Report, a contributor to the New Republic, and a news analyst for CBS News.
Hirsh Goodman

Napoleon Bonaparte

Robert Asprey charts Napoleon Bonaparte's thrilling, reckless rise to power in this fast-paced first volume of the definitive biography of the fascinating, enigmatic, and still mysterious tragic conqueror.
Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

Americas before Columbus

1491 is a groundbreaking history study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness.
1491

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Quotations of Famous and Important People arranged Thematically. The collective wisdom of famous and important men and women in their original words.
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