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How long did the Benin Empire last? Benin Empire: The Benin Empire was a monarchy in a small part of what is now southwestern Nigeria. In its time, it went through its golden ages and its declines, but it was ultimately destroyed by the brutal British punitive expedition that burnt down ...
The cremation chamber, which is just big enough to accommodate one body at a time, looks a bit like the inside of a pizza oven and can reach temperatures of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1093 degrees Celsius). It's lined with a heavy duty, high density fiber brick designed to retain heat....
Next comes the orange syrup, and finally, the yellow syrup. Then the mold cools and the mixture sits for about 24 hours until it hardens. A machine empties the trays, and the kernels fall into chutes. Any excess cornstarch shakes loose in a big sifter. Then the candy corn gets a ...
AI companies’ hope is that they won’t be held to blame if the AI tools they produce spew out harmful content that causes damage in the real world. They are trying to use thesameliability shield that fostered Big Tech’s exploitation of the previous electronic frontiers—the web and soc...
Alabama — Robert reached out to Mao Tse-tung requesting that the Chinese leader take an official position on racist extremism and violence. He had written letters to several national leaders that same year — including the presidents of Ghana and Indonesia, as well as the King of Cambodia —...
Instead of making the emperors richer, the constant devaluation of Roman coins -- and the resulting instability of the Roman economy -- is one of the factors that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. When Rome fell, most of Europe returned to a more primitive, feudal system of economy....
Beyond Gandhi’s remarkable and revolutionary revelations about the nature of power was a deeper insight:We make the world. He understood that the world is nothing more or less than the sum of all of our interactions. He used the power of “seeing big” to understand that the world he liv...
Osaka. The change was the coming of a business-dominated civilization. A hard coming we had of it. But the hardness was ideological and rhetorical, not material. What made the modern world, as many economic historians are realizing, was not trade or empire or the exploitation of the ...
- Notable works: "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep," "The Mirror Has Two Faces," "Murder on the Orient Express" The Obamas, the Clintons, and Jay-Z and Beyonce come to mind when one thinks of contemporary power couples, but the fact that Bacall was married to "Casablanca" st...