History Forum / General / General Topics / October 2006

Does anyone have any information about calumet baking soda? I am trying
to find information about the sales people that traveled the southeast
in the 1920s selling baking soda door-to-door. Pictures would be great.
Looking for info about Lowell Bennett and/or Imogene Howard.

A recently heard a lawyer recently speak on this. He said habeas
corpus, which is the right of a prisoner to be heard about his
imprisonment goes back some 7 centuries, it predates our constitution.
According to the constituion, congress can not suspend habeas corpus

These Portuguese historians must be some scholars! The answers to the
following questions are from Samuel E. Morison's "Admiral of the Ocean
Sea."
"How, the two historians asked, could a man said to have come from a

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-bloodyiraq1024.artoct24,0,552171.story
Killing Grounds
Baghdad has suffered so much that it's difficult to imagine life could
get worse. But it has. Parents force children to quit school and stay

Pearls and swine bereft of me
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills

What did women contribute to mesopotamian civilization.

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I am interested in finding out the following if it is possible to
decipher:
1. What where the primary causes of the great depression, and what do
most historians believe the causes to be ? If there are several camps

THE HIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT JOSEPH MCCARTHY
by Daniel J. Flynn
http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2000/january_2000_5.html
For generations of American students, the name Joe McCarthy

Well, Tet is in the news again now, since Bush gave that interview.
You've seen plenty of spin on this one, and you'll see plenty more.  So
let me point you to  (
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1978/nov-dec/bishop.html

The October 17 Frontline broadcast "The Lost Year in Iraq"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/
provides more stark evidence of the Operetta Government that I
mentioned on Aug 31.

I know this is an odd request.  But I'm looking for a particular epic
historical book set--eight volumes, at last count--that I referred to
when I was in college.  It chronicles U.S. history--from colonial days
all the way through the Vietnam Era and perhaps beyond--from a people's

Archive-name: holocaust/reinhard/part01
Last-modified: 1998/09/12
This FAQ may be cited as:
McVay, Kenneth N.  (1998) "HOLOCAUST FAQ: Operation Reinhard: Layman's

The Resurgence of Fascism
In 1945,  fascism was wiped off the face of the  earth.  Fifty years
later, fascism
returned in the form of Slobodan Milosevic , Saddam Houssein, and Kim

It appears to have been assumed by many historians of the Nazi
holocaust that the single reason why hundreds of thousands of corpses
of victims of the holocaust were exhumed from their mass graves and
burnt in huge cremation pyres during the course of the Second World War