General History of Africa
What characterizes this long period is the richness, the excellence and the variety of our information. Archival sources, still secondary to literary writings, are none the less important: Geniza documents, Alm ...
Posted Sunday, January 4th 2015 at 7:58AM
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The Elephantine Papyri are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts dating from the 5th century BC. They come from a Jewish community at Elephantine, then called Yeb, the island in the Nile at the border of Nubia, which was probably founded as a mi ...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2015 at 10:41AM
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Excerpt from A General History of Africa, Volume 1
UNESCO, 1981
...the blood-group and population method, despite its remarkable achievements, comes up against difficulties. For one thing, its parameters are multiplying at a tremendous rate, an ...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2015 at 8:30AM
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I started looking at woodstoves a couple of months ago, not wishing a repeat of last winter when an icestorm left us without heat for six days. I was surprised how hi-tech they are compared with what we had in the 70's but I guess I shouldn't have be ...
Posted Saturday, December 20th 2014 at 10:45AM
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Part of my job as a Bird-Watcher is to feed the birds. The Chickadees and the Titmouses are the boldest but inevitably they too are compelled to flee the presence of Man. It makes me wonder, what do they think of me? Do they think of me as God? Do th ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 10:55AM
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For the past couple weeks I've been enjoying the wildlife coming to my bird-feeder. I cleared out a bramble vine that was about 35 feet up into the cypress tree outside the kitchen window and hung a 4' long hook I made a couple years ago and a new bi ...
Posted Saturday, November 29th 2014 at 10:49AM
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Among those far-seeing men whose imaginations became fired with the dream of building an American iron industry was William Bird, believed of Dutch ancestry and born in Raritan, N. J., in 1703. He went to work for Thomas Rutter, the pioneer ironmaste ...
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An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the Pennsylvania legislature on 1 March 1780, was one of the first attempts by a government in the Western Hemisphere to begin an abolition of slavery.
The Act prohibited further importatio ...
Posted Friday, November 14th 2014 at 6:14AM
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More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago. And here's a big reason we've seen such incredible growth and innovation: Most Internet providers have treated Internet ...
Posted Tuesday, November 11th 2014 at 6:18AM
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It is said by some that Ibn Hanbal made a comment in regards to his book which read as follows: "I have only included a hadith in this book if it had been used as evidence by some of the scholars." Certain Hanbali scholars, such as Abu'l-Faraj ibn al ...
Posted Friday, November 7th 2014 at 5:53PM
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"I have chosen the iron industry as a window through which to view and understand the industrious and industrial revolutions as they unfolded in early Anglo America. I have done so partly because iron manufacturing created a microcosm of early Anglo ...
Posted Friday, November 7th 2014 at 8:06AM
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"Black In America" is more than just a phrase to describe African Americans in the United States. It's a movement that creates awareness and encourages dialogue about relevant issues. ...
Posted Wednesday, October 29th 2014 at 10:06PM
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Born a Mandinga, Francisco Menendez was sold by Muslim traders to the English on the Gambia River in 1709, and brought to the Carolina colony when he was 5 years old.
He joined the Yamasee to fight against the English in the Yamasee War, and came ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 12:12AM
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AGA'S RECOLLECTIONS.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VALLEY OF TEGLA, AND
ITS INHABITANTS.
SURROUNDED by some beautiful mountain scenery, and situated between Durfur and Abyssinia, is a small valley going under the denomination of Tegla, or Tegele ...
Posted Wednesday, October 22nd 2014 at 8:24AM
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Ethnic groups in Africa number in the thousands, each generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
The largest ethnic groups mostly originate from major historic political kingdoms, such as in West Africa with the Sahe ...
Posted Monday, October 20th 2014 at 5:50PM
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Saudi Arabia, and the Arabian peninsula, are considered part of Asia, to which the peninsula is directly connected. Being the southwest section, it is the closest part of the Asian continent to Africa. The countries around Saudi Arabia are known as t ...
Posted Thursday, October 16th 2014 at 7:49AM
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...simply glancing at these statistics reveals that virtually none of the African Americans tested by these DNA companies is inferred to be 100 percent sub-Saharan African, although each company has analyzed Africans and African immigrants who did te ...
Posted Thursday, October 16th 2014 at 6:53AM
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is teaming up with a nonprofit to launch a sweeping expansion of computer science course work, officials announced Tuesday.
The three-year effort will train L.A. Unified teachers to help students at all grad ...
Posted Saturday, October 11th 2014 at 7:18AM
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