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How Tarot Has Evolved through the Ages

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Tarot cards, in the images we are most familiar with today, evolved from a kind of table game played in 15th century Italy, becaming popular throughout Europe over the next four centuries.
Tarot originally would have been a pastime of the leisure class, those with the time and money to spend on games. Certainly at […]

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Slavery in the USA

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Spanish settlements in the territory of the current-day USA owned slaves as early as 1526. Twenty one African chattel slaves were first brought to British North America ( to Jamestown, Virginia) in 1619. They joined white indentured laborers (servants) from all over Europe as well as Indian (Native-American) and Caribbean slaves. All the colonies legalized […]

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