History

  First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. [95] The First Amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Initially, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by Congress, and many of its provisions were interpreted more narrowly than they are today. In  Everson v. Board of Education  (1947), the Court drew on Thomas Jefferson's correspondence to call for "a wall of separation between church and State", though the precise boundary of this separa

Fighting the British in the French-Indian war and fighting in the American War of independence, France was losing a lot of money and resources. After helping America win their freedom, the new USA government refused to repay them. This caused food shortage that mostly affected the poor. The common people suffered while the upper class continued to frolic and revel in excess. People were angry. Food prices rose and unemployment went up. King Louis 16 th  and Marie Antoinette The couple lives a life of lavish pomp and expense. They lived at the palace of Versailles and knew little of the lives of their people. Marie had a personal chocolatier, and their dogs were baked fresh treats every day. Marie was concerned with being a figure of high fashion and had stylists create groundbreaking new looks and massive tiered hair. At one point she had her hair made to look like a ship. Marie Antoinette gained the nickname “Madame Deficit”. Divine Right of Kings is a politica

Aesop Fables Perseus & Medusia - clash of titans  Theseus & Minotaur Icarus Illiad & odyssey- watch Troy Hercules  Archimedes  P137 of parallel myths  https://youtu.be/OE4VldFPUWE Theseus Ship Theseus and 60 soldiers from Athens left for the Island of Crete. There they sought to find the Minotaur in the Labyrinth on the island of Crete. On the way there they were attacked. 20 men died and the mast, sails and oars were destroyed. They stopped at the island of Mikonos. While there they hired 20 more men and paid for a new mast, sails and oars. They continued their journey and landed on the island of Crete. They descended to the labyrinth. With sword, shield and spear they fought the fearsome Minotaur. It killed 20 original soldiers but eventually Theseus was able to apply the fatal blow. Theseus and his men set to sea once again on their return trip. On the way home there was a huge storm. The storm threw 20 overboard and they drowned. The hull was cracked by rocks. They were

What is Rome? Today it's the capital city of Italy, 1000 years ago it looked like this... But it didnt start that way. A thousand years before that... It started as a small tribal settlement. Founding myth 1100 BC - the Fall of Troy  The events were written down 400 years later by a man named Homer who wrote the Illiad and The odyssey.  The Trojans were now refugees and is said they settled in the region of what is now Rome. The Legend goes that a Trojan woman was impregnated by the God Mars and gave birth to two demigods. Two brothers, Romulous & Remus were seen as a threat by the King who killed the mother. The king was afraid of what might happen if he killed the sons of a God so he put in a basket and put them in the Tiber river hoping the elements would kill them for him.  Instead, they were found by a she-wolf who  raised the two boys. The two boys suckled on the wolf and survived in the wild. A shepherd found the boys and took them back to civilization. After being captu