1. Firstly Considered as a National Symbol after 1911 Sun Yat-sen (1866 – 1925), the 'Father of Modern China', overthrew the ruler of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, which was the last feudal regime. In his opinion, the Great Wall was an important military facility to preserve the Han Chin...
Andrew Fisher.The Failed Experiment. And how to build an economy that works.Radical Read. 2014. Croydon resident who used to work in Jeremy Corbyn’s Office analyses the financial crisis. The publisher has stopped publishing due to age. I was helping the late Ted Knight to sell the small r...
Did you know that September 29 is known as Biscotti Day? Here you'll learn some interesting facts & events that happened on this day throughout history.
I be Tiger Lee, here be a tale of my visit to the old world. I boarded theBrixham Pirate Festivalin its 5th year. Not sure what to expect, I arrived at the old seaport village, with about 40,000 visitors. Maybe 10% dressed in that they call “fancy” outfits, what we call cheap...
Ruiz born; Died with wife and children in St. Francis Dam disaster. March 5: Los Angeles Star reports that the Board of Supervisors has accepted Gen. Beale's cut through Newhall Pass as finished. July 24: Walker/Reynier family patriarch Jean Joseph Reynier, then 15, arrives in Sand ...
It's easy to say the world wouldn't be where it is today without the significant events that transpired throughout the 20th century. These important ...
The majority of historical floods since 1900 have happened during the positive phase of the climatic index, with only two category one events (1991 and 2011) occurring outside of this period, making the connection between this index and floods in the Copiapó River clear. In fact, discharges ...
at the time they occurred might be forgotten by some citizens of the twenty-first century—except history geeks like us and the occasional Jeopardy contestant. Here are ten lesser known incidents which happened in pre-twentieth century American history that you probably weren’t taught in school....
–Pearson really screws up on when the action occurs in some of the books. Including: Casino Royale. Happened in May to June of 1951 (chapter 2); Pearson has it occurring in July of 1951. Live and Let Die: Happens in January, 1952 (chapter 1) Pearson has it happening in November, ...
I suspect that much of this was down to the closure of so much industry during the 1970s an 1980s along with the transfer to foreign ownership of so many British industrial and engineering companies. For a fascinating, but depressing read about how this happened, “The Slow Death of Briti...