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Billy The Kid

Posted August 31st, 2012 at 01:37 PM by Vintersorg

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William Henry McCarthy ( 23 November 1859 – July 14, 1881), more commonly known as William H. Bonney, or Billy the Kid, was born of Irish settlers, who came to the USA during the great famine. It is not known with certainty who his father was, but we do know his mother was called Catherine McCarthy, and that she remarried to a certain William Antrim (which would be the source of one of the Kid’s...
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The Other Nanjing Massacre.

Posted August 31st, 2012 at 03:38 AM by Ajax_Minoan

Here's my first historical article I wrote for Yahoo. It's called The Other Nanjing Massacre.

The Other Nanjing Massacre - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
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17th Century New England Online Primary Sources

Posted August 30th, 2012 at 08:41 PM by Jax Historian
Updated August 31st, 2012 at 04:50 AM by Jax Historian

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County (1636-1686 - 9 Volumes)

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County

Salem Witchcraft Court Transcriptions
Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum (3 Volumes)
Transcripts of Legal Documents


The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1675-1681 - Massachusetts. Probate Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow, Essex Institute - Google Books

Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: From 1628 to ... - Massachusetts, David Pulsifer, Joseph Barlow Felt - Google Books
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Bronze Age Italian commercial center

Posted August 30th, 2012 at 01:28 AM by AlpinLuke

The "Terramare" were a particular kind of civilization who flourished between 1,650 and 1,150 BCE [about] in the region which is today the last part of the river Po.

That region worked as a real commercial center of exchanges of goods coming from the north of Europe and heading to the Mediterranean region, up to Egypt.

The Terramare culture developed just thanks to these advantageous context. To protect this richness they built fortified settlements [the last...
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Marajoara Civilization

Posted August 29th, 2012 at 09:36 AM by Tairusiano
Updated August 29th, 2012 at 09:45 AM by Tairusiano

Marajoara would have appeared around the year 1100 BC
Mysteries stranded - It's strange that Marajó Island, can be homeland for a advanced people, it has almost no relief and is only about 100m above sea level. However, it was found that this territory remains of this ancient people, that the variety and sophistication of their way of life, offered to researchers to classify elements into a high level right next to older cultures, especially among pre-Columbian America Central and Andean....
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