A brief history of the USA

Europeans have been fascinated by the lands in the West for eons. Let’s take a look at the history of that fascination and how the current American nation came about.

Historians claim that 15,000 years ago, the first settlers came into the present-day USA, crossing the Bering Strait from Siberia

into Alaska (the first Americans thus essentially being Russians). These peoples were to become the ancestors of all Native Americans most of which would were to be semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes but also some tribes that were settled in one place in civilizations based on agriculture.

Around the year 1000, a select group of Norsemen, or Vikings, visited America

as described in a set of old Icelandic stories called “The Sagas of Icelanders”. The stories tell of one Leif Ericsson who took a crew of 35 men and sailed from

Iceland to a newly discovered land in the West, staying there for the winter and returning to

Iceland with no permanent settlement having been established. The area where he landed is generally thought to be in Newfoundland,

Canada, but some believe it could also have been further South in later New England. (more…)

I was having a hard time with my diet and many other things related to my heath and most of the treatments I tried did nothing but help me increase my problems so I was getting quite desperate I should claim when one day I came across this book by don colbert entitled I can do this diet, and since I have heard the name of don colbert before and I knew this was a famous guy, I tried to check it out and what his books told about diet so I went online to this christian site called www.nestentertainment.com and tried to see if this will be a good answer to my problems. And as I read up the book as soon as it got to me, I tried applying what he said to my diet and my life per se, and then slowly little by little I started noticing good changes in me overall. I never thought reading books like this could be of help to me but it did and now I am really so happy I decided to buy all of his books online to see if they would all work out fine for me and knowing fully well that his first book was of use to me, I know the others might too like the bible cure series. He is such a great man and a great author I should say and I would like to really thank him for being able to help me with his words.

They called World War II the war to end all wars. They called Hitler the worlds ultimate bad guy. The horrors that nazi Germany committed against the Jewish people were inexcusable. Needless to say, the world is a much happier place without Hitler and his kind, even though dictators much more ruthless than him have come and gone in this time. This war was the last war to have the over whelming vast majority of the country behind it. It showed what a well trained, dedicated military machine can accomplish when properly motivated. Likewise, Auschwitz was the biggest and most notorious concentration camp the Nazi’s used. A huge number of the victims of the holacaust entered this camp… and never came back. Why the allies didn’t destroy this place is unclear, but its continued existance serves a purpose.

I will never forget the day that i visited this place while i was stationed in Germany in the U.S. Army. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end as i walked through the gates; being somewhat of a history buff, i was well aware of the (more…)

To compare Britain to America is laughable, why you ask?

Well, America was born from British settlers who betrayed the crown, and with the aid of France and Spain, were granted independence, so no war between America and Britain took place, contrary to this great myth that America beat Britain! in fact the only war the 2 nations have faced, was in 1812, when America attempted to help France and invade and take Canada from the British, this resulted in every invading army being obliterated, then the Whitehouse being burned ( hence the name Whitehorse, as it was painted white to cover the burnings) and states falling under British control, thus was then ceased in 1815 when America offered a peace treaty, which due to the long wars with Spain and France, and the recent victories over both, including the defeat of Napoleon, favoured Britains tired and home sick troops, and ensured Britain held it’s empire and increased it’s wealth. So 1-0 to Britain.

To cut this short, America has failed since it’s been a nation, it’s failed to produce the greatest minds, hardly any inventions, and nothing further of any note, compare this to Britain’s vastly smaller population, who managed (more…)

American history is, in the view of some, not the same as the history of any other nation. Instead, American history is the history of Providence. It is the history of how the divine hand has interacted with the human element to create a nation that is, in many ways, unique among the nations of the world. As such, its history is also unique among the history of the nations. In this view, American history is really American providential history; it’s the story of God’s interaction with humanity.

American providential history focuses on the unique elements in American history in which human beings have interacted with the divine. As such, it begins with a study of the early American settlers. These settlers, in many cases, came to America from Europe for religious reasons. In some instances, they were persecuted for their religious beliefs, such as was the case with the Pilgrims. In other instances, people came to America for missionary purposes – they hoped to spread Christianity to the native people of America.

From there, people interested in American providential history focus on the amazing events that occurred during the nation’s founding. They look at movements like the Great Awakening, which had (more…)

Algeria has lived two periods as a protagonist of African history and not only, just in the last 50 years.

The first was during its independence war to get free from the colonial power of France.

This fight started in 1954, with riots in various provinces and soon spread across the whole Country, with guerrilla and terroristic attacks against the French presence in Algeria.

This cruel war lasted until 1962, when the French President Charles De Gaulle, the hero of the French Resistance against the German occupation during the W.W.II, reached an agreement with the main political Algerian party, the FLN, to give the independence to Algeria (Evian agreements, March 18, 1962) that, in its turn, had fought for its freedom against the French occupation, started in the far 1830.

This obstinacy of French government to keep at any cost its rule on Algeria is very strange and very difficult to understand, when we think that the independence to Tunisia and Morocco (equally, French colonies) was pacifically recognized in 1956 and that of the other African French colonies (Senegal, Mali, Chad, Niger,…)in 1960.

So, Algeria became a symbol of freedom against the European colonial domination in the whole Africa, before and after 1962 (more…)

The idea of people leaving signs and signals along an underground railroad to help escaping slaves is an interesting and thought provoking topic. The concept of these freedom quilts comes from the book “Hidden in Plain View” written by two professors: J. Tobin and R. Dobard, PhD. They wrote the book based on a single woman’s word; Ozella McDaniel Williams, as she explained that it was an oral tradition that black slave families passed down through the generations, and as she was dying she didn’t want the tradition to die with her. There has however been ongoing discussion about whether this is fact or myth, as there appears to be no or little corroborating evidence.

===Background===

It is impossible to understand the freedom quilts unless you understand the background of slavery behind it, and the lives of the people who lived while the underground railroad was running, approximately 1830-1862. The first US Census in 1790 showed that the USA consisted of 3.8 million people including 694,000 slaves. Southern states agreed to join the USA providing they could keep their slaves as they were essential to the economy of Southern America, the Congress agreed because Southern crops were vitally important to their (more…)

After the defeat at the end of the W.W.I, Germany was obliged to subscribe very hard and punishing conditions with the peace treaty of Versailles, on June 28th, 1919.

Also Austria, or what remained of it, Hungary (just become independent from the Austrian Empire) and Bulgaria had to sign similar treaties.

These treaties were prepared on January 18th, 1919, at the Paris Conference, without the participation of the defeated States that only immediately before their signature were allowed to present their observations.

Also this condition was desired by the most intransigent against Germany, the French Prime Minister CLEMENCEAU, defined in France as “The father of the victory”, who tried in many ways to made even more severe the peace conditions against Germany, while the position of Great Britain and USA was more moderate; so, the setting of this treaty was particularly difficult.

Because of this treaty, Germany had to respect the following conditions:

1) definitive transfer of the ALSACE-LORRAINE to FRANCE.

2) temporary transfer of the SAAR to FRANCE, about which a plebiscite would have decided after 15 years; its coal mines become a French property.

3) to BELGIUM, Germany had to transfer, for reasons of military border security, the areas surrounding EUPEN (more…)

Adolf Hitler and the German Army had many successful campaigns during World War II, including the domination of North Africa and France. It can be difficult to say that a country made military blunders when its realm stretched across Europe and threaten the entire planet. However, because we are not chanting “seig heil” and goosestepping down the street, that must mean that Germany made errors in World War II. By looking back at the war, I have found that Hitler made three critical errors that would lead to the downfall of the Third Reich, as well as himself.

The first mistake was Poland. When Hitler and Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, the agreed that they would both invade Poland and split the country into two zones. Both sides had something to gain from this: Hitler would be able to push the German Empire into the East and Stalin would be able to spread Soviet ideology into the West. However, this pact would not work out as planned, for Hitler ordered his troops to take the rest of Poland. This act would bring the two countries into an all-out war that would las the duration of World (more…)

History is repeating itself once again in Darfur Africa today. With an estimated death toll of two hundred thousand, the killing still goes on and on. Not only are they being killed, but many are starving to death also. Due to the instability of the region, it is very hard to get the mere necessities to them. The shipments are often stolen, and go directly into the hands of the wrong people.

Every time I hear about Darfur, I think of the holocaust. They are systematically killing a group of people. I could never imagine this happening in our world again. However, it does go on and on in a lot of places around the world.

I have family members who were directly involved in the holocaust. They were murdered in Poland, and buried under the city of Warsaw. Most of the polish people were very poor, and only had their land to farm on. Owning little else. However Hitler wanted the farm land, so he slaughtered the polish people for their land.

Much of the same is going on in Darfur. One of the underlining reasons for the genocide is simply too many people living in one (more…)