History


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"What George Washington did for us was to throw out the British, so that we wouldn't have a fat, insensitive government running our country. Nice try anyway, George."
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  • Random Quotes on History

  • US History - Historical Text Archive

  • African-American Inventors

  • Sweatshops

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Mondragon Cooperatives

  • The Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation

    •  After spending 36 years locked in a safe in the CIA director's office, this highly critical report of the CIA's handling of the Bay of Pigs Invasion was made public on February 22, 1998, after a two year Freedom of Information Act effort by The National Security Archive at George Washington University. (discussed in the September 20, 1996 Scout Report. The top secret report, officially known as _The Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation_, strongly criticizes the CIA for misinforming Kennedy administration officials, poor planning and intelligence, treating rebel leaders as "puppets," and conducting an overt military operation beyond "Agency responsibility as well as Agency capability." Note that the report is available as a series of large .zip files of scanned images. They may be available as HTML files in the future.
    On the Banning of Land Mines
     It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
    -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
    This is the full text of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
    It is well worth the read!

  • Panama Canal

  • Panama Canal

  • Libertarian Views on Money

  • Money without Government and Banks

  • Other Thoughts On Money

  • History of Money

  • A Brief History of the Internet

  • Brief History of Computers

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Consitution of the United States

  • UN Dclaration of Human Rights

    • [Link to THOMAS Home Page]The Library of Congress
  • War and its weapons

  • Hemp

  • Ancient Egypt, the Pyramids, the Sphynx, and Ancient Knowledge

  • Arab World in the Middle East and North Africa

  • A to Z of Camels

  • General Greek Resources

  • Hellas Home Page

  • Links to Ancient Greece

  • Antiquity: Latin, Greek, Hebraic, Patristic: Electronic Texts

  • The Classics at MIT

  • Detailed Chronology of Greek History

  • Greek Chronology with Links


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