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Durant wrote Heroes of History more for the layman than the scholar. Historical facts were interspersed with the author's opinions and reflections. "This book is likely to find a wide audience among those looking for an introduction to world history", says John Little of Publishers Weekly, "but the absence of a bibliography and source notes may denote to scholars a certain lack of rigor."
Teehee [b] was born in the town of Muldrow, in the Cherokee Nation [5] (modern-day Oklahoma) on October 14 or 31, 1874. [c] He was five-eighths Cherokee.[2] [d] His father, Rev. Stephen Teehee (or "Tehee") (1837–1907) was a Baptist minister and a unilingual speaker of Cherokee, who was originally from Cherokee territory in Georgia; at various times, he served the Cherokee Nation as a ...
He was born as Bob Benge about 1762 in the Overhill Cherokee town of Toqua, to a Cherokee woman and a Scots-Irish trader named John Benge, who lived full-time among the Cherokee and had taken a "country wife." They also had a daughter Lucy. Benge stood out physically because of his red hair.
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
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He was the son of Chief Bloody Fellow (Talotisky, known also as Aaron Price) and Betsy Watts (Wurteh), who was the mother of Chief John Jolly (Due), Chief Bob Benge (known as "the Bench"), and George Gist (Sequoyah). [1] Tahlonteeskee was the older brother (or possibly a half-brother) of John Jolly.
Conquest was designed by Donald Benge of Burbank, California, who self-published it in 1972. [3] Two years later, Benge developed a four-player edition, also titled Conquest. The four-player version can be played as a free for all, with two teams of two. Benge then published Conquest Plus, which introduced catapults and siege engines.