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…I first began my research at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History. Ancient Egyptian history covers a period of over three thousand years. Most modern countries histories are only hundreds of years old. Only China can come anywhere…

…Peter Marin's piece, "Helping and Hating the Homeless" first appeared in Harper's Magazine (January 1987). It is an account of why some marginalized people "choose" homelessness and why middle-class culture finds them so threatening. In this piece…

…Ancient Egypt was even ancient to the ancient Egyptians themselves. It was as ancient to the ancient Greeks as the ancient Greeks are to us. 5,000 years separated us from the beginning of ancient Egypt. The history of Egypt begins with the unification…

…The Ancient Egyptian culture is very unique to me because it’s mysterious in many ways. The way the pyramids were built, the way their religion motivated their architecture, and what they believed in is very interesting and astonishing to me…

…Ancient Greece A Time Of Great Cities And Lives Ancient Greece was an interesting time and place with huge markets in which people could sell items of every kind. Strict laws with even stricter penalties if broken, a place where women were did not have…

…Introduction Oceans and seas cover over 70% of the world's surface, and include some of the most productive environments on the planet (Michaelis & Carocci, 2000). There are an estimated 300,000 know marine species and they represent more phyla…

…By: Lee A. Zito Mike Hoffman is a U.S. Marine. In December of 2001 he was sent to Iraq, along with fellow members of his Battalion, Romeo 5/10, to fight in President Bush's "war". He risked his life out in the desert, at the same time posing…

…ANCIENT SKEPTICISM In the most specific sense, the term “Ancient Skepticism”refers to two movements in ancient philosophy. One movement is Pyrrohonism. This states that Pyrrho of Elis (4th-3rd c. B.C.) was its founder. It was especially…

…Ancient Civilizations: Are they so Ancient? Throughout history, there have been many things to indicate why contemporary events occur. Not Nostradamus like predictions, merely the fact that current events have occurred many years ago in one form…

…, was the intellectual center of Greece. It was one of the first city-states of its time, and is still world renowned as one of the most famous cities in the world . The ancient Greeks, mainly the Athenians, were a unique people. They believed that individuals should be free…