faceless39.hubpages.com — The Truth About Christopher Columbus   "What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind, and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them." -- Bartolomé de las Casas   Introduction Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas, nor was he the first to realize that the earth is round. He was the first , however, in other exploits, namely genocide and the transatlantic slave trade. Doesn't sound familiar? Read on.

jewishencyclopedia.com — This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.). However, it does contain an incredible amount of information that is remarkably relevant today.

hebcal.com — Hebcal (pronounced HEEB-kal, as in Hebrew calendar) is a free Jewish calendar and holiday web site. We offer a powerful custom Jewish calendar tool that lets you generate a list of Jewish holidays for any year (past, present or future). Also available are a Hebrew date converter,  Shabbat candle lighting times and Torah readings (both full kriyah and triennial system), and a page to look up yahrzeits, birthdays and anniversaries. Many of our users choose to download a holiday calendar to Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Palm, or Android (via Google Calendar). Hebcal was created in 1994 by Danny Sadinoff as a Unix/Linux program. Michael J. Radwin released a web interface in April 1999 to allow Microsoft Outlook and Palm Desktop downloads of Jewish holiday data. Today, Danny and Michael collaborate on the underlying holiday and candle-lighting calculation engine and Michael does most of the web development.