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[Classics Book] An Essay on the Principle of Population by Reverend Malthus

Whilst not the first book on population, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" is acknowledged as the most influential. First published anonymously in 1798, the author was soon identified as the...

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[War and Finance Series] From "History of the Civil War (1861–1865)" by James Ford Rhodes (1848–1927)

As said in my profile, I'm particularly interested in the study of the link between war and finance. So I'm collecting some pieces of history for that purpose. Bimetallism In the old Ages, money consisted...

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Ramesses II: Ramesses The Great, Pharaoh of the Exodus ?

[Film] The Ten Commandments (1956) The Ten Commandments (1956) expands the popular idea by an Egyptologist that Ramesses II was the Biblical Pharaoh of the Exodus named Shishaq. But most Egyptologists maintain...

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Cagliostro

Alessandro, Count di Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo) 1743-1795 Count Cagliostro was born Giuseppe Balsamo on June 2, 1743 in Palermo, Italy. Early in Cagliostro's life his father died and because his mother...

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Primary Sources

According to William College Libraries: "Primary sources are first-hand accounts by participants of a particular event or historical time period. Secondary sources, on the other hand, are books and articles...

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Home-School.Com: an astonishing interview with John Taylor Gatto

If you don't know John Taylor Gatto, he was the astonishing teacher who resigned after being named Teacher of the Year (read my former article here). Nevertheless in his announcement to the Wall Street Journal...

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Colonel House - CFR founder, promoter of the League of Nations and President Wilson most influencial advisor

"Mr. House is my second personality. He is my independent self. His thoughts and mine are one." — President Woodrow Wilson quoted by Charles Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House,...

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The Conquest of Poverty by Gerald Grattan McGeer 1935

Table of Contents Conquest of Poverty Foreword I. Democracy or Money Power II. Money is Economic Power III. War and Usury IV. Signs of Emancipation V. ...

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THE HITLER I KNEW: A Young Girl’s Memoirs of WW II in Germany

If you're like me and always wonder how people could have fallen into the trap of Hitlerism, this book is interesting as a direct testimony of a real person who has been endoctrined by Nazism. I regret that at...

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