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Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia - Hyksos
The Hyksos (Egyptian heka khasewet) were an ethnically mixed group of Southwest Asiatic or Semitic people who appeared in the eastern Nil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - The Thebean Offensive
Hyksos - Under Sekenenra Tao II. The war against the Hyksos began in the closing years of the Seventeenth Dynasty at Thebes. Later New ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - The Consequences
The decision was a culmination of what many at that time considered was a push to expand slavery. The expansion of the territories and re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - The Consequences
The decision was a culmination of what many at that time considered was a push to expand slavery. The expansion of the territories and re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Archaic Period
The Archaic period includes the Early Dynastic Period, when Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt were ruled as separate kingdoms, and the First an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nationalism In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Nationalism In The United States - Origins
The United States formed from a group of colonies under the authority of the British Crown, each established and governed independently o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Desegregation: Encyclopedia Ii - Desegregation - Segregation After The Civil War
After the Civil War a series of constitutional amendments were passed: The Thirteenth prohibited slavery. The Fourteenth, among other th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Life
Dmitri Shostakovich - Early life. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Shostakovich was a child prodigy as both a pianist and composer. His ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - Background
Dred Scott was a slave purchased around 1833 by Dr. John Emerson, a surgeon in the US Army, from Peter Blow, who had owned Scott perhaps ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - The Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford - Missouri court history. The first case Scott brought was lost on a technicality; Scott could not prove to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Character
Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his daughter he was "obsessed with cleanliness"[26]; he synchronised the clo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Works
For a complete list, see List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich (by Opus number). See also: Category:Compositions by Dmitri Shostako...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Character
Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his daughter he was "obsessed with cleanliness"[27]; he synchronised the clo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - The Decision
The ruling was handed down on March 6, 1857. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the Court, while each of the justices joining i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Desegregation: Encyclopedia Ii - Desegregation - Desegregation In The Military
During the Civil War, Blacks enlisted in large numbers in the Union Army, particularly in the later stages of the war, but served in segr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - The Decision
The ruling was handed down on March 6, 1857. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the Court, while each of the justices joining i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Character
Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his daughter he was "obsessed with cleanliness"[24]; he synchronised the clo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - The Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford - Missouri court history. The first case Scott brought was lost on a technicality; Scott could not prove to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - Background
Dred Scott was a slave purchased around 1833 by Dr. John Emerson, a surgeon in the US Army, from Peter Blow, who had owned Scott perhaps ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dred Scott V. Sandford: Encyclopedia Ii - Dred Scott V. Sandford - Later References To The Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford - Bush v. Gore. Charles Evans Hughes, writing on the history of the Supreme Court in 1927, before his appointmen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Works
For a complete list, see List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich (by Opus number). See also: Category:Compositions by Dmitri Shostako...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Desegregation: Encyclopedia Ii - Desegregation - Modern Civil Rights Movement
In 1957, in the wake of the Brown decision, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower enforced the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation order...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - New Kingdom
The New Kingdom is the period covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth dynasty of Egypt, from the 16th century BC to the 11th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Third Intermediate Period
The Third Intermediate Period marked the end of the New Kingdom after a suprise invasion from the Sea People. A number of dynasties of Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Second Intermediate Period
The Second Intermediate Period is a period of disarray between the end of the Middle Kingdom, and the start of the New Kingdom. It is bes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - First Intermediate Period
The First Intermediate Period is the period between the end of the Old Kingdom and the advent of the Middle Kingdom. The Old Kingdom rapi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Late Period
The Late Period runs from 732 BC to Egypt becoming a province of Rome in 30 BC, and includes periods of rule by Nubians, Persians, and Ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Middle Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom is the period from the end of the First Intermediate Period to be beginning of the Second Intermediate Period. In addi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Extent And Nature Of Hyksos Rule
The Hyksos kingdom, then, was centered in the eastern Nile Delta and Middle Egypt and remained limited in size, never extending south int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Orthodoxy And Revisionism
Shostakovich's response to official criticism is disputed. It is clear that outwardly he conformed with the state, reading speeches and p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Was There A Hyksos Invasion?
Manetho's account of the appearance of the Hyksos in Egypt calls it an armed invasion by a horde of foreign barbarians who met little res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Who Were The Hyksos?
The term "Hyksos" derives from the expression heka khasewet (Rulers of Foreign Lands), used in Egyptian texts like the Turin King List to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dmitri Shostakovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Dmitri Shostakovich - Works
For a complete list, see List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich (by Opus number). See also: Category:Compositions by Dmitri Shostako...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Old Kingdom
The Old Kingdom is period in the third millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilisational complexity and achie...   » Read the article