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In the 17th century, Spain was suffering from an economic downturn. The expenses of maintaining a global empire were mounting. Revolts from native populations, particularly the Dutch, were costing Spain much of their budget in military excursions. Spain's long-time rival France saw an opportunity...
The term comes from the Arabic word “Bardag”, meaning slave boy, which in turn comes from the Persian expression “Hardah” that means slave. Keep in mind that in the Roman Empire was transformed the Greek homosexual construction system, teacher-pupil, to the master-slave system that ...
Dutch gin as it was commonly known was later refined in and around London during the 17th and 18th centuries giving us the now ubiquitous London Dry gin, which is the dominant juniper-forward style available." By the early 1700s, gin was all the rage in England, with an estimated quarter...
In Bulgaria, as part of the Ottoman Empire, homosexuality was legalized in 1858, but after its liberation it was again criminalized. In 1968 it was legalized again because it was considered a involuntary and painfully disease, but not a crime. At present Bulgarian society is in a process of...
However, the economic and welfare-state dimensions of violent European expansion have hitherto hardly been studied. This article uses the example of the Dutch colonial army to show for the first time how much money flowed from the colonies to lower-class European families....
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Rodolphe Lindt invented conching in 1879 [source: Lindt]. This process consistently created a smooth-textured bar of chocolate and made chocolate even more affordable to mass-produce. By the early 1900s, people like Henri Nestle, Milton Hershey and other big names in chocolate were churning out...
There was a big debate. Nehru, Indonesia, and all the countries who were against the military alliances, said: “Alright, you have the right of self-defence collectively. But you should abstain to use that military alliance for the special interests of big powers.” Pakistan could not say ...
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a to