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- New Civilian Civilisation Builders Poll Part 4 | History Forum
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier Votes: 0 0 0% Anton van Leeuwenhoek Votes: 1 5 6% Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Did Napoleon betray the Revolution? - History Forum
In a recent discussion with my friend jeroenrottgering, this question came up I would like to open it for discussion The topic needs defining I would suggest the term 'betray' indicates a course of action for selfish reasons The ideals of the Revolution can be summed up, simplistically, as
- Nominations for Top Twenty Civilian Civilisation Builders
Lavoisier Laplace Jenner Cuvier Audubon, got to get one artist in Einstein - move him to the top ten Fleming Bohr Hubble Fermi von Neumann George Gamow (a favorite of mine) John Nash Darwin and Alfred Russell and last but not least PERICLES
- Did Rome really have a population of 1 million people in AD 50?
Paris of Lavoisier had around 600 000 people There was no formal censis, but a census in 1801, after the population had been diminished by revolution, found nearly 550 000 people And the wall of Lavoisier enclosed about 3400 ha
- US history is boring compared to Old World nations.
Now more to the OP's query Is U S History any more, or less, complex than say, the History of Britain? U S History is an extension of British History, so to study U S History you need to also be studying British History British History can't be properly studied without studying Nordic Celtic Germanic History because of their effects on say French History
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