Unlike the Aztec Empire, the Maya had no central controlling government. Rather, each Maya city-state had its own individual ruling family that controlled
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In 1991 LeRoy Johnson Jr. told his therapist he was a Shiite Muslim and intended to kill President Bush for waging an “unnecessary” war in the Persian Gulf.
Secret Service agents swapped stories of the real Hillary Clinton personality, none of them flattering. Most involved verbal abuse and profanity.
Daniel Cowart was a white supremacist who hatched a plan in 2008 to kill 88 African Americans and end with assassinating Barack Obama. His plan failed.
The Mongolian ger or yurt is the perfect dwelling for pastoral nomads; accordingly, they have been used for thousands of years in that part of the world. G
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As a nomadic pastoral culture, Mongols raised five main domestic animals: horses, sheep, camels, cattle and goats, in their order of relative importance. W
In 2007, prisoner Daniel Cvijanovich told fellow inmates that he planned to kill Bush after being released. He was charged with threatening the president.
In 1992, Frank Paul Jones, 33 - who was bipolar- had become obsessed with Janet Jackson and wrote threatening letters to Bush 41. He was later arrested
Perhaps the most dangerous threat to Obama's life came in 2011 from Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who thought God ordered him to kill the president
Genghis Khan Without Temujin, the man who became Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire would not have occurred. Genghis Khan was a strong, charismatic, disciplin
In 2009, twenty-one-year-old Texan Timothy Ryan Gutierrez hacked into the websites of the DOD and the FBI. Earlier he issued death threats against Obama.
Cylinder seals were a small, carved stone cylinder that was used to make an impression in wet clay. When rolled on the wet clay, the seal left an impressio
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari was a former Texas Tech University chemical engineering student who attempted to bomb former president George W. Bush in 2011
As you have read, the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. Most of the people sacrificed were not residents of the Aztec's major cities, rather they were capt
Barry Clinton Eckstrom was a mentally ill man who wrote threatening letters to many public officials, including President George W. Bush in 2007
The Secret Service knew of the many Bill Clinton affairs, and his womanizing caused even caused security problems throughout his presidency
Robert W. Nelson was a 23-year-old ex-con who threatened the life of Ronald Reagan in 1986 and prepared to assassinate him in Spokane, Washington
One of the most dangerous “repeat threateners” of President Ronald Reagan was Edward Patterson, a drifter who had a record of fifty arrests
In 1994, thirty-eight-year-old Frank Eugene Corder crashed a Cessna 150L airplane onto the South Lawn of the White House, killing him but no one else.
Every empire has unusual features; the Romans, for instance, were civil engineers extraordinaire, building aqueducts and roads still in use today, thousand