Augustus
Augustus was first emperor of the Roman empire. His original name was Gaius Octavius. After his adoption by Caesar, he was known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, which has become anglicized to...
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Caligula was the nickname of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus. He was born at Antium (modern Anzio) on August 31, 12 A.D. His father was Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of...
View ArticleClaudius
Claudius I's official full name as emperor was Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus. He was born at Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), on August 1, 10 B.C., the son of Drusus (the brother of Emperor...
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Titus was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. Born in Rome on December 30, 39, he was the son of Emperor Vespasian and the older brother of Emperor Domitian. His powerful, aristocratic father provided Titus...
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Trajan, Roman emperor, directed the last major expansion of the Roman Empire. Trajan was born Marcus Ulpius Traianus in Italica, Spain, on September 18, 53. His father, also Marcus Ulpius Traianus, was...
View ArticleAncient Greece
About 2000 B.C. South-east Europe was invaded by a fair-skinned people, the Hellenes (Greeks), who conquered not only Greece itself but the adjoining islands and part of the coast of Asia Minor. The...
View ArticleAncient Rome
In the year 753 B.C. a small town was founded in Italy on the River Tiber. Its people became famous as warriors and they conquered the neighboring regions. They were governed by the Senate, a group of...
View ArticleGreek Art
The artforms that the Greeks took over from the Minoan civilization can be seen in the geometric designs on decorated vases, and in the early simple wooden temples. Around the year 600 BC Greek...
View ArticleParis
The capital city of France, Paris has a population of 12,089,098 (January 2008) in the 20 municipal arondissments and is located on the Seine River in central-north France.It is one of the largest and...
View ArticleStockholm
The capital and largest city (population 861,010) of Sweden, Stockholm is situated on a number of peninsulas and small islands south of the Gulf of Bothnia at the junction of Malaren Lake and Saltsjon,...
View ArticleTibet
Its geographical isolation has reinforced a deliberate social and cultural isolation, with only China and India having any significant influence. This isolation has been maintained under Chinese rule....
View ArticleTurkey
Set astride the crossroads linking Europe and Asia, the Republic of Turkey is bounded to the west by Greece and Bulgaria, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, Iraq and Syria, to the east by Iran,...
View ArticleThailand
Thailand borders with Burma in the north-west and west, with Laos in the east and north-east, with Cambodia in the south-east and with Malaysia in the south. The Gulf of Siam indents the southern Thai...
View ArticleSweden
The sixth largest country in Europe, the kingdom of Sweden occupies the east of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Among the Scandinavian countries it has the largest area and population and the greatest...
View ArticleRome
Rome (Italian Roma), capital of both the province of Rome and the Republic of Italy, and formerly the capital of the Roman Republic which later on became the Roman Empire; even later it was the capital...
View ArticleMilan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and capital of the province of Lombardy. Milan is located in northern Italy in the fertile Po plain between the foothills of the Alps and the river Po. It is...
View ArticleThe Best Heavy Metal Album Ever Tournament: Part I
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View ArticleMetallica vs. Megadeth: The Best Heavy Metal Album Ever
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View ArticleThe 25 Best Heavy Metal Albums Ever - Voted by Metal Fans
We have finally done it. You, the readers, have voted over the past six weeks and selected the best heavy metal album of all time out of a field of thirty-two of the top reviewed metal albums. All...
View ArticleThe Top Five Must See Places on Cape Cod
Cape Cod has a lot of cool things to see and places to go, but if you had to make short list of 5, here's what I'd personally recommend. I live about 30 minutes from Cape Cod, and visit a few times...
View ArticleKing Richard III of England
Was King Richard III a despicable tyrant who plotted and killed his way to the throne or was he an heroic figure? We will never know for sure, but he was definitely not the monster that William...
View ArticleAdding Personality to Your Leaves
One of the things that makes a writer stand out is by adding their personality to their leaves. This in no way means that your leaf has to be about you personally. What it means is injecting yourself...
View ArticleWhat is Bounce Rate?
Recently, Pastiche asked me about bounce rate in the Zujava forum. I thought that her question was one that many people had, so I decided to write this blog post. Bounce rate is one of the metrics that...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Referring Sites to Zujava, Updated 2013
Last year, we reported the top ten sites that were sending traffic to Zujava. Things have changed quite a bit in only a year's time, but most of the same major players are still in the game. Here,...
View ArticleFall Leaf Challenge Winners Announced!
The first official day of Fall was just days ago, and as promised, we have a winner for our Fall Leaf Challenge! We had a lot of great entries, but this leaf in particular caught our attention. The...
View ArticleShare Your Disappointing Search Engine Query - and Help Writers!
Have you ever searched for something on the web and haven't really found the answer you're looking for? Or, have you had to sift through multiple search results only to find that every article, blog...
View ArticleThe Value of Leaf Comments
Writers are well aware of which comments are good and which ones aren't. Unfortunately it's all too common to get bad comments in the form of spam, link dropping, or short, unthoughtfully generic...
View ArticleZujava Pumpkin Carving Contest
Zujava account not required!For this contest, we thought we'd change things up a bit and let you guys show off your most creative Halloween pumpkins. Even if you're not the creative type, this is a fun...
View ArticleIt is Officially Cold And Flu Season Once Again
Today's post is a guest post by Ladymermaid, aka Lorelei Cohen.
View ArticleThings People Buy for Thanksgiving
Happy November! We thought we'd kick off November with some Thanksgiving content inspiration in the form of leaf ideas. Here's a quick list of things people are going to be buying. As always, a leaf...
View ArticleProduct Review Contest - Win a New Keurig Coffee Maker!
When you read a great review of a product, you'll take the author's recommendation seriously. That could mean more sales for you, and a more natural, fun way to write about the products you're already...
View ArticleOctober Was Our Highest Sitewide Earnings Yet!
Today is a good day! And last month was a very good month for Zujava, for a few reasons. First, our traffic numbers were among the highest they've been ever.Second, our earnings were the best that...
View ArticleThe Truth of Web Page Updating: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The search engines are constantly searching online through the content available there to discover how they should rank it in their directories. They will generally crawl through your web pages on a...
View ArticleHappy New Year from Zujava
It has been a great year. Wishing you all a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2014.
View ArticleProduct Review Contest Winners Announced!
It pays to enter our contests, as two of our writers can tell you. What may have been the easiest contest for us to pick to date has resulted in also our smallest pool of submissions to date. Whether...
View ArticleCelebrate Zujava's Two Year Anniversary!
How time has flown! It has been two years since Zujava's official launch date on January 23, 2012. Since then, we've hit some big milestones, met hundreds of new people, and had the honor of hosting...
View Article28 Leaves in 28 Days Challenge 2014: Preparation & Ideas
On Thursday, we threw down the gauntlet for the return of our 28 Leaves in 28 Days Challenge. With the blistery cold weather in the northern hemisphere, this is the perfect time of year to crank out a...
View Article28 Leaves in 28 Days Challenge 2014 (Official Post)
Today is the big day! Today, February 1st, we begin the 28 Leaves in 28 Days Challenge. Push yourself to write daily, and you'll be rewarded with a fatter portfolio. We're adding to the rewards this...
View ArticleNew Year's Resolutions 2013: Submit Your Leaf!
How many of you can say that you kept your New Year's resolutions for this year? Last January, we made a proposal to all Zujava writers to help them keep their resolutions and stay on track for the...
View ArticleWriting on Unusual Holidays and Celebrations
Looking through Zujava's Topics the other day I made a surprising discovery. The Unusual Holidays and Celebrations category is virtually empty. There are a few articles there but not nearly enough to...
View Article6 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Sales on Zujava (or anywhere)
I’ve learned that each writing platform is different in terms of how we should optimize the product arrangement. The product placement technique I use on HubPages will not work on Zujava because Zujava...
View Article28 Leaves in 28 Days Challenge Winners Announced!
Today, we picked the four winners of the 28 Leaves in 28 Days Challenge! Each hard working winner not only increased their Zujava portfolio by twenty eight leaves, but received also a $25 Amazon gift...
View ArticleGetting Active in the Community Forums
The community forum is a valuable part of the Zujava platform. A place where open discussion is encouraged it is a feature of the site that every Zujava member has the opportunity to participate in. It...
View ArticleImportant Announcement About Our Partnership with Amazon
This week, we received some news from Amazon that was like a kick to the gut... news we never wanted to deliver to the community. In a cold form email, Amazon Associates announced to us that we had...
View ArticleFrom My Desk to Yours
There are some events in life that leave you standing with your mouth half agape trying to get your brain to formulate the words that explain to you what the heck has just happened. Well this past year...
View ArticleRepurposing Squidoo Content for Zujava
The past few months have been tumultuous for writers in the Squidoo community. With the transition to Hubpages, it means a whole lot of work for most of us, as well as figuring out where certain...
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