History - November 2006

I would like to know how many of each race of people (from Jews to Africans to Europeans to Asians and everyone) have been enslaved throughout history or as close and comprehensive as anyone can get.

2006-11-09 03:04:56 · 6 answers · asked by phildarthebuildar 3

2006-11-09 03:01:10 · 1 answers · asked by Joyce D 1

my dad got very attach to diwaker.some sentiments he has for him.He once wants to talk n meet with him.Is anybody who can give me diwakar's contact number or address.pls help.

2006-11-09 02:51:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are some career options with a degree in History?
(besides teaching)

2006-11-09 02:41:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-09 02:37:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

true or false

2006-11-09 02:31:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Civilian Conservation Corps (part of the new deal programs) before the program stopped, it accepted women (a few years after it started) when was that? PLEASE HELP!

2006-11-09 02:19:57 · 1 answers · asked by delusionalenigma 2

2006-11-09 02:03:02 · 3 answers · asked by Devin B 1

Cory TenBoom a dutch lady during WW2, helped Jews by hiding them in her family's house. Spent time in concentration camp. What did you think of her faith and her sister Betsy especially in such a hard place. Has Cory or Betsy's life had any effect on yours.

2006-11-09 01:47:27 · 2 answers · asked by angel 7

What are the crusades?
who are them?
when did it take place?











this is not my home work!
(first three people get a "thumbs up")

2006-11-09 01:13:07 · 6 answers · asked by Oh! Crud 3

2006-11-09 00:42:30 · 4 answers · asked by hajahas 1

question refers to abe lincolns gettysburg address. What does conceived in liberty mean?

2006-11-09 00:08:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-09 00:04:05 · 4 answers · asked by aashu 1

He was president during the toughest time for our nation. Agree, disagree and why?

2006-11-09 00:03:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

please people help me answer my questions because i'm struggling so badly that i always have to lie when i need to answer my questions so please! please! please! please! please! please! please! help me.

2006-11-08 23:23:26 · 5 answers · asked by laydee c 1

2006-11-08 22:45:43 · 2 answers · asked by rocky_198193 1

My friend think so. I can't find any source confirming that.

2006-11-08 22:03:33 · 5 answers · asked by unnga 6

2006-11-08 21:53:48 · 9 answers · asked by b_honeypot 1

And what were their names?

2006-11-08 21:35:42 · 11 answers · asked by Ryan K 1

2006-11-08 21:20:39 · 10 answers · asked by thomas sts 1

Successful. It is said that the beetles were rejected by Decca and the Monopoly game was initially written off by Parker Brothers. What other myopic rejections have gone on to achieve spectacular success?.......

2006-11-08 20:19:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is the difference between a caveman and neantherdal?

2006-11-08 18:06:15 · 9 answers · asked by shelly 1

2006-11-08 16:39:26 · 3 answers · asked by Maryajne B 1

PLZ PLZ PLZ !!! someone help me summerize and understand this so i can put it into an essay. help!!!!?
The Bath of Athena

By Callimachus

(written ~ 3rd century BCE)

Note: The "Bath of Athena" describes how Teiresias went blind after seeing the Goddess Athena naked but was given prophetic vision. The speaker of this hymn is an officiant at the Temple of Athena of Argos, preparing for the ritual bath of the statue of the Goddess.

All you that are companions of the Bath of Athena, come forth, come forth! I heard just now the snorting of her holy horses, and the Goddess is ready to go. Hurry you now, O fair-haired daughters of Pelasgus, hurry! Never did Athena wash her mighty arms before she drove the dust from the flanks of her horses - not even when, her armor all defiled with filth, she returned from the war with the lawless Giants; but far first she loosed from the car her horses’ necks, and in the springs of Oceanus washed the flecks of sweat, and from their mouths that champed the bit: cleansed the clotted foam.

O come, daughters of Achaea, but bring not myrrh nor alabaster (I hear the whir of her axle now!); bring not, you companions of the Bath, for Pallas myrrh, nor alabaster (for Athena does not wear perfume), neither bring you a mirror: she is sure of her beauty. Not even when Paris judged the contest on mount Ida; the great Goddess looked not into orichale nor into the transparent flow of the river Simois, nor did Hera. But Aphrodite took the shining bronze and often altered and again altered the same lock. While my Goddess, after running a two-hundred stade course, like the twin Spartan stars on the banks of Eurotas, then did her simple annointments: oil from her olive tree, applied with skill; and the blush, my dear maidens, that ran up her body was like the color of the morning rose or the seed of the pomegranate. Therefore now also bring you only this masculine virgin oil, with which Castor and with which Hercules anoint themselves. And bring her a comb all of gold, that she may comb her hair, when she had anointed her glossy tresses.

Come forth, Athena! This company pleasing to your heart awaits you, the maiden daughters of Acestor’s mighty sons. Athena, come, the ancient rite is begun, the shield of Diomedes is carried to Inachus, an Argive rite taught by Eumedes, your beloved priest who on a time, when he knew that the people were plotting and planning his death, fled with your holy image to the hill called Creion - and set you in rocks, you, O Goddess, on the rugged rocks, whose name is now the Pallatid rocks.

Come forth, Athena, Sacker of Cities, Athena, helmeted in gold, Athena, who rejoices in the crash of horses and shields. Come. Today, the city will drink from small springs and fountains, but not from the river; girls will dip pitchers in Physadeia today, maidens will bear water from Amymone's pool where the daughter of Danaus lives. For, mingling his waters with gold and with flowers, the river Inachus will flow from his pastoral hills, bringing fair water for the Bath of Pallas Athena. But beware, O Pelasgian river, brim your eyes to the Queen: the man who sees Pallas, Keeper of Cities, naked, shall look on Argos for this the last time. Come, Lady Athena, and meanwhile I shall say somewhat unto these. The story is not mine but told by others.

There was a time in Thebes, my dears, Athena loved a nymph, loved her to distraction, loved her more than any other, the mother of Teiresias, Chariclo by name, and was never apart from her. When Athena drove her horses towards ancient Thespiae or towards Coroneia or to Haliartus, riding through the farmlands of the Boeotians - or toward Coroneia where her grove is heavy with incense, and her altars lie close to the river Curalius - often did the Goddess set the nymph upon her car and there was no dalliance of nymphs nor sweet ordering of dance, where Chariclo did not lead.

Yet even Chariclo did many tears await in the after day, even though she was a comrade dear to the heart of Athena. One day these twain undid the buckles of their robes beside the fair-flowing Spring of the Horse, on Helicon, and the two were bathing; and noontime quiet held all the hill. Those two were bathing together and it was the noontime hour and a great quiet held that hill. Only Teiresias, on whose cheek the down was just darkening, still ranged with his dogs the holy place. And, thirst beyond telling, he came unto the flowing spring, wretched man! And unwillingly saw that which is not lawful to be seen: “Which God, son of Everes, has led you on this rough road? hence shall you never more take back your eyes!”

Athena spoke and night seized the eyes of the youth. And he stood there, speechless; for pain glued his knees and helplessness stayed his voice. But the nymph cried: “What has you done to my boy, Lady? Is such the friendship of you Goddesses? You has taken away the eyes of my son. Foolish child! you has seen the breast and thighs of Pallas Athena, but the sun you shall not see again. O me unhappy! O mountain, O Helicon, where I may no more come, surely a great price for little has you exacted. Losing a few roe and deer, you has taken the eyes of my child!”

With that the mother hold her beloved child in both her arms and, mourning over him like a nightingale, led him away. But the Goddess Athena pitied her friend and said this to her: “Divine woman, take back all the words that you has spoken in anger. It was not I who struck your son blind. For no sweet thing is it for Athena to take away the eyes of children. But the laws of Cronus order demand that whoever sees any of the immortals, when the God himself chooses not, at a heavy price shall he behold. Divine woman, the thing that is done can no more be taken back; since like this the thread of the Fates span when you brought him to light; but now, son of Everes, accept like a man what is only your due. How many burnt offerings shall the daughter of Cadmus burn in the days to come? How many Aristaeus, her husband, to see their son Actaeon merely go blind? And yet he shall be companion of the chase to great Artemis. But him neither the chase nor comradeship in archery on the hills shall save in that hour, when, even though unwillingly, he shall behold the beautiful bath of the Goddess. No, his own dogs shall then devour their former lord. And his mother shall gather the bones of her son, ranging over all the hill. She will think you lucky and a fortunate woman to have your son home from the hills - only blind.”

“Therefore, darling, you mustn't grieve so. Your son - for your sake - shall remain many other honors from hereafter, yes, more excellent far then any other. He shall know the birds - which is of good omen among all the countless birds that fly and what birds are of ill-omened flight. Many oracles shall he give to the Boeotians and many to Cadmus, and to the mighty sons of Labdacus in later days. Also I will give him a great staff which shall guide his feet as he had need, and I will give him a long term of life. And he only, when he dies, will walk among the dead having understanding, honored by Agesilaus, host of the dead.”

So Athena spoke and bowed her head; ensuring fulfillment of all that she said; since to Athena only among his daughters has Zeus granted that she should win all things that belong to her sire, O companions of the Bath, and no mother bare that Goddess, but the head of Zeus. The head of Zeus bows not in falsehood, and in falsehood his daughter has no part.

And now comes Athena in very deed. O maidens, whose task it is, receive you the Goddess with pious greeting and with prayer, and with the voice of thanksgiving. Hail, Goddess, and preserve Inachian Argos! Hail when you drive out with your horses, and may you drive them home again with joy, and preserve all the estate of the Danaans forever.

2006-11-08 16:01:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-08 15:38:48 · 8 answers · asked by Esmerelda 2

2006-11-08 15:34:12 · 5 answers · asked by asmith1022_2006 5

like how did it get its name?

2006-11-08 15:07:02 · 6 answers · asked by Stacy L 1

2006-11-08 15:03:20 · 14 answers · asked by shih rips 6

Franklin Roosevelts New Deal program had a significant impact upon American society
What were the goals of the New Deal and how did it ultimately transform the political economic and social landscape of the United States?
Do you think this change was inherently radical or conservative?

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2006-11-08 14:40:16 · 3 answers · asked by C. T. 2

I want to learn how marriage proposals were done in the 18th century. Was it common for a man to just ask the woman or did they normally ask the family first? Who really decided whether the answer was yes or no?

2006-11-08 14:34:25 · 5 answers · asked by amanda r 1