History Books

Contents1. Jallikattu: A Hindu - patriarchal - caste dominated cultural festival2. 'Jati Madu'3.Cultural infatuation with Jallikattu and sudden interest in domestic cows4.Professor Tho. Paramasivan and Jallikattu5. Jallikattu and Malluktu6. Jallikattu: A national disgrace7. Untill Jallikattu...

After years of trial and error in matching suspected shooter sites with hit points on 22 Nov '63, I got a perfect match for a 16-20 shot conspiracy that killed JFK and made forensic ballistic analysis out of it plus show re-processed photos to show what was covered up by the government when they...

Bronze was the first human-made material. Bronze transformed the small communities of the Fertile Crescent into the first civilizations. Sumer and Egypt, Canaan and Hittites, Minoans and Mycenaeans and other cultures made history in the IV-II millennium BCE in the Age of Bronze.Our magazine will...

In the seventeenth century there was a seemingly insatiable demand in Europe for beaver pelts, inflated in no small degree by early laws prohibiting the use of cheaper furs in hat making. Since there was an apparently inexhaustible supply of these pelts in America, the fur trade quickly became the...

THIS book is not sent forth to fill a long-felt want; nor does the author hope to convince all his readers to his way of looking at the social and religious problems of Mexico.As a teacher of modern languages, the author went to Mexico solely for the purpose of mastering the language, but the...

Na de afzetting van Mehmet VI en de opheffing van het Ottomaanse sultanaat werd Mustafa Kemal Ataturk algemeen erkend als de nieuwe leider van Turkije. Na de Vrede van Lausanne werd hij op 29 oktober 1923 de eerste president van de seculiere republiek Turkije met Ankara als hoofdstad.

Among the nations of the earth there exists no more striking contrast than that between the people of Paris and the people of France. While the capital is a political furnace, where all sorts of conflicting ideas and opinions are continually boiling with such a rage of effervescence that the...

The position of New England in 1829, was a most cheerless one for Freedom. All the great interests of the country were nearly or remotely involved in slaveholding, through all their various arrangements, civil, ecclesiastical, mercantile and matrimonial; yet all disclaimed its alliance.

In this little book I am going to try to tell you something about Abraham Lincoln. There is far more to say about him than can be fitted into so small a space; and perhaps when you are older you will read about him for yourselves, and read his wonderful speeches.

Many have been before me, and the theme of this volume can hardly be called new, for Japan has been viewed from every side and through all kinds of eyes. This, however, has not deterred me from jotting down a few observations and experiences of my own, hoping that in them my readers may feel some...