Afrikaans is a Germanic language derived from Dutch-speaking settlers from Holland who inhabited the Cape Colony. It is official language of South Africa and Namibia and is also spoken in Lesotho and Botswana. With the passage of time it has acquired its own characteristics, since it has assimil...
No. Vietnam was a French colony and I lived with my family in a French environment. Even today, the buildings in Hanoi and Haïphong look French. In 2013 I went to North Vietnam to look where I had lived in 1950 when I was ten years old. Our house in Haïphong was still here,...
Long before Serena and Venus Williams soared to international fame there was Suzanne Lenglen, a French tennis player who captivated the world in the 1920s with her controversial habits that included wearing red lipstick, drinking alcohol, cursing, exposing her bare arms, and donning skirts above...
First known as El Paso, and Fountain Colony, and briefly as Colorado City, it was the first county seat and actually was the Capital of Colorado for four days while the state was known as the Territory of Colorado. Later they changed it to Colorado Springs because of - stop me if you'...
First, the war in Vietnam had helped to fuel a nickel mining boom and new immigration in New Caledonia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. France wanted to monopolize profits from that boom because it regarded nickel as a strategic resource. Second, the French colonial gov- ernor, Laurent...
Vietnamese. Even more horrendous, is that the final peace plan was similar to theoriginal1954 peace accords ending the 9-year French Indochina war, but which the US refused to honor. Thus the Vietnamese suffered through 20 more years in what was ...
While it's not without its faults, if you've lived in Evansville your whole life like me, or at least long enough to remember a time when "The Lloyd" didn't exist, you have to admit it makes getting from the west side to the east side and all points in between much easier and ...
Saddam’s Iraq was governed by Ba’athists, which is to say Arab nationalists. It was predictable that the United States would purge Arab nationalists from the Iraqi state and, in creating a constitution for its post-Saddam neo-colony, build into it provisions preventing the re-emergence ...
This is something it has in common with all other members of the Chinese language family, as well as Thai, Vietnamese and many others. But what is a tone? If you’ve never studied a tonal language before, you probably have no idea what this even means!
were issued by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. These notes were used to fund military operations. It wasn't until 1776 that the first $2 bill was introduced. Nine years later, in 1785, the U.S. officially adopted the dollar sign, using the symbol for the Spanish-American peso as a g...