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2014-07-30T08:34:55+02:00

Department of African American Studies – Syracuse University

Posted by July 30 2014 at 08:34 AM

The AAS department was created in the spirit of revolutionary thinking.[3] Syracuse students were among the first in the United States to rebel against institutionalized injustices in education in the 1960s.[4] When Ernie Davis became the first Black...

2014-07-30T08:29:52+02:00

John Albert Bullbrook

Posted by July 30 2014 at 08:29 AM

John Albert Bullbrook (1882–1967), born in the Medway area in what was then Kent in South-East England, was an author, archaeologist and archaeological historian, who went to Trinidad in 1913 as a petroleum geologist. He began his archaeological career...

2014-07-30T08:07:45+02:00

Barrel children

Posted by July 30 2014 at 08:07 AM

Barrel children are children who are abandoned or "left behind" by their parents who are seeking a better life abroad. Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown, the University of the West Indies academic who first described the phenomenon of barrel children, defines...

2014-07-22T03:30:35+02:00

Battle of Mount Tabor (biblical)

Posted by July 22 2014 at 03:30 AM

The account in the Book of Judges describes a contest for control of the Jezreel Valley. Mount Tabor commands the northwest section of the Jezreel Plain, and lies at the boundary of Naphtali and Zebulon lands. The army of the king of Hazor, under the...