The lasttyrannos, or tyrant, to rule Athens was Hippias, who fled the city whenSpartainvaded in 510 B.C. Two or three years later, an Athenian aristocrat named Cleisthenes helped introduce democratic reforms. Over the next several decades, subsequent reforms expanded this political system while...
The stunning city of Petra in Jordan was built by the Nabataeans with staggering sums from the luxury trade. Now the discovery of a faraway submerged altar temple shows the extent of its reach.
the package takes up unnecessary space while being transported, increasing its carbon footprint. Then there is the issue of the materials used: with conventional packaging materials, such as bubble-wrap, the plastics used are energy-intensive to ...
This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
World War II significantly disrupted the TSE. The exchange was forced to close in 1945 amid the chaos of Japan's defeat. However, it reopened in 1949, symbolizing Japan's economic rebirth and the beginning of its postwar miracle. The decades that followed saw explosive growth, mirroring Japan...
What’s more, Denmark’s stock market has been on fire the past 20 years whereas the UK’s has been moribund. Consequently Britain has slipped into the bottom half of the table, after decades as one of the leading lights. And while it’s true that losing a World War is bad news, Ja...
7 V-J Day, 1945, Times Square struck a powerful chord in 1945 and continued to play well with future onlookers years and even decades later. The photo takes hold of the viewer's attention and, like the pictured sailors, never seems to let go. All the photo's features compete for the...
You won't find it on any official map, and if you're sailing in the Atlantic, you're likely not to even notice when you cross its vague boundaries. Nevertheless, the infamous Bermuda Triangle — also sometimes known as the Devil's Triangle — for decades has been the subject of numerous...
He has been homeless for decades. Thanks to a group of caring high school seniors, he now has a real home to call his own. Students at Summer Creek and Kingwood Park High schools worked together on a project called “Students Helping Veterans” over the past school year. The students and...
The many islands in the Caribbean create lots of areas of shallow water, which can be treacherous to ships [source: NOAA]. But at the same time, some of the deepest trenches in the world are found in the area of the Bermuda Triangle, including the Puerto Rico Trench, which goes down ...