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Gabriel, a Virginia slave, begins to recruit other slaves for a revolt.

After the initial invasion of Silesia by Prussian forces, Austria strikes back at the country and her allies in a desperate attempt to control the region.

The Revolutionary War brought the desired freedom the young states wanted, but it also brought great debt. Alexander Hamilton's idea on how to pay the debt caused mayhem.

Barabbas was a leader of an insurrection aimed specifically at Pilate. Pilate wished him dead, but was manipulated into setting him free and condemning the innocent Jesus

With eleven films spanning 30 years and at least two more on the way, the Star Trek phenomenon just won't die. This article looks back at the Star Trek hits and misses.

The St. John slave uprising in 1733 lasted more than nine months and began, like the sparks of many violent uprisings, out of a pretense of hopelessness and redemption.

Various factors contributed to the coming of war in 1898 including the destruction of the USS Maine, sensational newspaper stories of atrocities, and imperialist views.

In the turbulent decade of the 1850s, John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry was the culminating act that convinced Southerners civil war was a real possibility.

Forbidden participation in the acceptable political arenas of their day, women of the 13 colonies created their own styles of political insurrection.

The US Constitution, provides for the separation of powers among the three Federal branches, and defines obligations of the State and Federal governments to each other.

The tensions that began to build in the previous week's episode exploded on Friday night as Lieutenant Gaeta and Tom Zarek put their plan into action .

Mountain gorillas endure new round of slaughter. Rangers find healthy infant before fighting resumes in DRC's Virunga Park, home of nearly half of world population.

The Bolsheviks came to power under Lenin's leadership and seized the Provisional Government in Petrograd in 1917.

Ma Rainey, in the early 1920s, begins recording her music in New York and Chicago. Soon she is seen covered in diamonds.

Yelena has been saved from the noose to be the Commander's food taster, but she has to wonder whether she'll die anyway from poison or from the coming revolution.

Gabriel's Plot to free slaves is halted by bad weather. Someone informs on them, causing leaders to be hung or sold.

U.S. Federal Census Records can help genealogists identify ancestors who fought on either side of the Civil War conflict.

The World War II Chief of Staff successfully managed a two-front world conflict, attempted to make peace in China, then led U.S. responses to post-war challenges.

The 1861 Emancipation Act gave millions of Russian serfs freedom but their newly acquired land allotments were insufficient, creating a new type of slavery.

The Preah Vihear temple has been in the news recently because of its World Heritage status, the conflicting claims and a disputed border by both Thailand and Cambodia.

The seventh president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, continued the policies of his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, in banking, indian removal, and slavery.

The practice of international relations is getting a bit of a workout this week as Russia invades neighboring Georgia over breakaway province of South Osettia.

A medieval biography of Henry IV, the man who ousted King Richard II from the throne.

A goal of paying off Revolutionary War debts led to a second uprising. Some call it America's first Civil War as it pitted the government against its citizens.

The following lineage societies are open to women; for some it is by invitation only. All require documented pedigrees. Most have websites.

America's early policy of viewing Native American tribes as a threat lead to a grave injustice and its longest war.

The news is out that Extract is mediocre -- it's true -- and there is at least one good reason why that is so.

A short 1798 Irish Rebellion may have set the stage for Ireland's warring factions during the next two centuries. Sir Richard Musgrave gives one perspective.

While both North and South prepared for conflict after the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln sought only to reassure that the South could remain safely in the Union.

The National Convention governed France during the period of the French Revolution known as the Reign of Terror. Led primarily by the Jacobins, it lasted until 1795.

The revolutionary ideas that spawned American Independence actually traveled on a kind of "Information SuperHorseway" that was called The Committee of Correspondence.

Some of the great US presidents have entered office with great resumes. So have some of the failures and mediocre ones. Does experience matter and, if so, what kind?

Fritz Leiber's The Big Time is his Hugo award winning epic of the Change war, that has influenced series as diverse as Star Trek: Enterprise and Doctor Who

Machiavelli's The Prince is known for its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and for its abandonment of conventional morality.

Claiming to be Peter III, the former Tsar, Emelian Pugachev gathered an army and successfully attacked frontier garrisons, eventually bringing havoc to the Volga region.

William Tryon's laxity led to corruption in the Back Country. Even Quaker Herman Husband led in the War of the Regulation ending at the Battle of Alamance May 16 1771.

Growing unrest thanks to economic and political problems led to a public meeting at St. Peter's Field on 16th August 1819, but what happened was later coined a massacre.

The Whiskey Rebellion represented the first serious challenge to the authority of the newly formed central government and thus demanded a decisive response.

The Old Testament makes it clear that Moses was neither a Hebrew nor an Israelite. Exodus 2:19 specifically refers to Moses as "an Egyptian".

The agreement signed 17 September, 2008 aims to provide a basis from which an eventual resolution of the current political and socio-economic crisis can be achieved.

The United States Congress is the branch of government that passes laws. The authority to do this is granted by Article I of the Constitution.

Whilst much is known about Nelson Mandela and the ANC little is known about a white Jewish South African who fought the oppression and injustices of the Apartheid regime.

Sweden's belligerence, confined to the upper quarters of Protestant Europe, prompted Denmark to further its own empire in India, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Parliament saw the Boston Tea Party and related demonstrations as anarchy and loss of control. The Intolerable Acts were passed to restore order and provide restitution.

The Crimean War shattered the European order crafted by Prince Metternich in 1815 and resulted in new alliances that altered the European balance of power.

The Edict of Nantes was motivated by numerous political and social factors affecting the newly crowned French king's desire to end warfare and establish state unity.

As overland travelers visited Utah in the 1850s and 1860s, their reports of the Mormon people became steadily more negative.

The nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe was largely a fight to end white domination over African land. After independence in 1980, a new chapter opened with land reclamation

Hussein is a name associated with Saddam Hussein, in most American minds. However, Saddam, a dictator convicted of genocide, was the antithesis of his Shia name sake.

The mine owners and the Governor of Idaho moved to identify and punish those involved in the explosions at the Bunker Hill mine in 1899