Asia:Philippines, although it was official for 300 years and ruled from Mexico as part of the Spanish Empire, only some 689,000 people speak it nowadays (0,5% of the population) Middle East:Israel (1,4 million Sephardi Spanish speakers - Sephardi is an old version of Castilian Spanish as...
Dental caries, a highly prevalent oral disease, impacts a significant portion of the global population. Conventional approaches that indiscriminately eradicate microbes disrupt the natural equilibrium of the oral microbiota. In contrast, biointervention strategies aim to restore this balance by introducing b...
The fungus can survive in the soil for many years and as far as 8 feet deep in the ground. Treatment: If cotton root rot is infecting your pine, there is a chance of saving the tree if the decay is not yet substantial. The Oklahoma State University Extension recommends this process: ...
Planting trees (and other woody plants) needs to become part of a personal ethic dedicated to improving our shared environment, and that includes reducing our carbon footprint in MANY ways. No and no. Second, and more germane to this blog, is that most people don’t know how to plant ...
History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400 years and then by the United States of America for the next 50 years. It proclaimed its independence from Spain on 12 June 1898. As an American ally, it was occupied for four years by the Japanese Imperial Army ...
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded William McKinley as president in 1901, he was aware that America was in a different international position than it had been just a few years earlier. The United States had been a continental empire since its founding, but as a result of the Spanish-American ...
The fate of Korean aid had become intertwined with the desire by many Americans to get on with the business of their own lives. Having survived both the Great Depression and World War II, it was time to go to college on the G.I. bill, get a job, buy a home in the suburbs, and ...
How did this manana habit get into the Philippines? This habit that is most common to us Filipinos came from the Spaniards who colonized our country many years ago (Maxxwell‚ 2009). It was a habit commonly seen in the Spaniards before and we Filipinos Premium Philippines Affect Spain ...
What did it cost the environment to make that shirt? How much water? How many tons of CO2? What did it cost the workers? What was the total impact on their health and well-being? The story of our world is sewn into the fabric of that shirt and woven into the tragedy of our times...