In short, at a time of universal social upheaval and challenge, our vision of our own society seems to be of limited social significance. An air of disengagement and disinterest hangs over the most powerful and affluent society the world has ever known. Neither the turbulence of the world abr...
More than six million people living in Poland lost their lives in the 1920s famine and the Second World War. The disappeared Republic In the aftermath of the 1795 partition, the republic of Poland was erased from the map of Europe for 123 years. Why We Love Polish Flag Day It’s the ...
6 Map showing plate division of six major litho- spheres in the world (after 勒皮雄, 1968) (2) 每个板块都包括有三种边界, 即: 扩张边 界(中脊系统),会聚边界(俯冲带及沟,弧,盆系统, 碰撞带或会聚带,拼合带等)和转换边界(剪切性的转 换断层).后者是由于沿中脊各段间运动量不同, 造 成段与...
In Bentonville a sizable Jewish community had emerged by the early 21st century, largely because of business opportunities that had developed around Walmart, a company that not only had its headquarters in the town but had become the world’s largest retailer. There are Muslim groups in the ...
inWorld War II(1939–45). Since the war, however, Japan’s spectacular economic growth—one of the greatest of any nation in that period—brought the country to the forefront of the world economy. It now is one of the world’s foremost manufacturing countries and traders of goods and is...
until in 1939 Croat and Serb leaders negotiated the formation of a new prefecture uniting Croat areas under a single authority with a measure ofautonomy. Whether this would have laid the basis for a durable settlement is unclear, as the first Yugoslavia was brought to an end byWorld War IIan...
During World War I and the Russian Revolution, the flag of Latvia was increasingly displayed. It flew on November 18, 1918, when the Republic of Latvia proclaimed its independence, and it was formally adopted on January 20, 1923. When the Soviet Union absorbed the country in 1940, the flag...
Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and lit
In 1901, for example, Azerbaijan produced 11.4 million tons of oil, more than the United States; it accounted for more than half of world production. As the 20th century progressed, however, Azerbaijan’s role in oil production decreased as the industry developed in other regions of the U.S...
“the nation after the hyphen.” Although World War II thwarted the Slovaks’ first vote for independence in 1939, sovereignty was finally realized on January 1, 1993, slightly more than three years after the Velvet Revolution—the collapse of the communist regime that had controlled ...