The two primary elements were those of darkness and light: Sut was the power of darkness, Horus the power of light. In one representation the two elements ...

A pioneering work of cultural anthropology, E.W. Lane's study of Egyptian society has not been out of print since it was first issued in 1836. Immersing ...

The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents at the front were ...

“For the first time, the government tries to find out, not what nations but what races are pouring into America, and It reaches some conclusions ...

When roughly classed, the myths and legends generally show two points of departure for migrations of the human race, as these were rendered in the stellar ...

ELINORE PRUITT STEWART (1876-1933) caused a literary sensation in 1914 when her Letters of a Woman Homesteader was published. A recent widow and now-single ...

He was a pioneer in the study of the human unconscious and the impact of sexual desire on human behavior, and his 1900 work *The Interpretation of Dreams* ...

Though Canadian author CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIE ALLEN (1848-1899) published what is considered one of the first Canadian science fiction books, The British ...

The most prejudiced will not deny that Paris is beautiful; or that there is about her streets and broad, tree-lined avenues a graciousness at once dignified ...

He was the premiere political "blogger" of his day, a man Thomas Edison called "one of the greatest of all Americans," and one today's liberals and progressives ...