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		<title>Caligula: Reign Of Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reign of Terror of Gaius following the death of Tiberius. <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/caligula-reign-of-terror/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Julio-Claudian Family Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Greek Renaissance 800-700 BC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 800 BC this enclosed, static society began to change. The spur was increasing population, growing prosperity at home and renewed contacts with traders from the Levant. The traders were Phoenicians, a Semitic people from the coast of modern Lebanon who founded Carthage near modern Tunis in 814 BC. The use of iron also spread, &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/greek-renaissance-800-700-bc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history ofÂ  dates back over 4000 years. Many of our Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ child was born. The 12 days of Christmas, the bright fires, the yule log, the giving of , carnivals(parades) with floats, carolers who sing while going from house to house, theÂ  feasts, and the church processions &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/the-history-of-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MYCENAEANS THE FIRST GREEKS, 1600-1200 BC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VReal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 3rd millennium BC a prosperous Bronze Age culture developed in the Greek peninsula in small towns in the Pelopnnese. Around 2000bc they were destroyed by invaders, probably from the north, and for a time urban life totally disappeared. Then in 1600 bc a new civilization emerged from the ashes and built amazing tombs &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/mycenaeans-the-first-greeks-1600-1200-bc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian Dynasties Middle Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the 11th dynasty 2125-1991 BC to the 17th dynasty 1650-1550 BC Egyptian dating is expressed by ruling families &#8211; dynasties. The historian Manetho (270 BC) wrote a history of Egypt giving the number of dynasties, the number of kings, their names and the length of each reign. 11th dynasty 2125-1991 BC * Intef I &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/egyptian-dynasties-middle-kingdom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VReal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleopatra VII (69-30), last of the Ptolemies, was portrayed to Romans as an oriental femme fatale who had lured the great Roman general Mark Antony to his downfall. In fact Cleopatra was Greek in language, culture and background, and she relied more on her intelligence and charm to captivate Caesar and then Antony than on &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/cleopatra-queen-of-egypt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian Dynasties Old Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the 1st dynasty 3I00 2890 BC to the 8th dynasty 2181- 2125 BC Egyptian dating is expressed by ruling families &#8211; dynasties.The historian Manetho (270 BC) wrote a history of Egypt giving the number of dynasties, the number of kings, their names and the length of each reign. 1st dynasty 3I00 2890 BC Narmer &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/egyptian-dynasties-old-kingdom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Germanicus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VReal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GERMANICUS (15BC-AD19) Germanicus Julius Caesar (24 May 16 BC or 15 BC â€“ 10 October AD 19) was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. He was born in Lugdunum, Gaul (modern Lyon). At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus . Germanicus was the charming and popular son of &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/germanicus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (also called Tarquin the Proud or Tarquin II) was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Tarquinius Priscus and son-in-law of Servius Tullius, the sixth king. The historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus may have divided one historical figure named Tarquin into two separate kings because of problems with dating &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://historystuff.net/reign-of-lucius-tarquinius-superbus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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