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Christianity and the cult of Mithras were once in a competition which made the outcome a fifty-fifty chance. Both appealed equally to the Roman soldier who had to fight the endless wars of the Roman…
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Ignaz Maybaum
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1966
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Georgia
City of Savannah
Sheftall Sheftall of the said city, being duly sworn, saith:
That some time in the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, or the beginning of…
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Sheftall Sheftall
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Savannah, United States of America
Date:
1832
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A moment of agonized suspense and Alvar Rodriguez stood at the window, the bar he had removed in his hand. He let down the string, to which Hassan’s now trembling hands secured the ladder and drew it…
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Grace Aguilar
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1844
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Out of a world in which man was viewed fundamentally as an instrument, one among other means of attaining desired ends—be they economic or political—emerged a view so totally different as to amount to…
Contributor:
Moshe Greenberg
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1966
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
Contributor:
Mordecai Sheftall
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Savannah, British America and the British West Indies (Savannah, United States of America)
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ca. 1778–1779
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The Nuremberg judgment only partly relieved the world’s moral tensions. Punishing the German war criminals created the feeling that, in international life as in civil society, crime should not be…
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Raphael Lemkin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1959