I’ve only scratched the surface here – I could write far more about the many peculiarities of English English, and the above is just a taster.If I’m being honest (another British turn of phrase – Americans more naturally say “to be honest”), I didn’t really think about most of...
Answer and Explanation: In general terms, after the Declaration of Independence, the new American nation dealt with Slaves and Slavery almost the same way they had treated...
St. Peter’s Basilica (free but there will be a line), Piazza Navona, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Via Margutta (Where Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck met in Roman Holiday), Villa Borghese Park (the museum is great but you do need a ticket), explore the Jewish Ghetto, stroll along ...
1803>{Dietary Reform} Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy, wroteTreatise on the Effects of Coffee(23 pages) in Germany, translated by William LaMartine Breyfogle in 1824. Thus,Hahnemann was one of the first to start the idea, that coffee and tea, as stimulants, should be considered to b...
The movement to pull down public Confederate monuments, which began in 2017, has been picking up steam. In the spring and summer of 2017, construction crews hired by the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and New Orleans wrapped heavy straps around the bronze chests of towering sculptures of confeder...
But from 1300 to 1600 in northern Italy and in the Low Countries, and then more broadly down to 1776 and still more broadly to 1848, something changed in the talk of Europe. In England the change in the rhetoric of the economy happened during a concentrated and startling period 1600 to ...
Kommisar Blogunuv, to be politically acurate we may want to have a lady in the picture not wearing a burka...since we know Muhammed didn't write the part in the Koran about burkas until after 1920 or so. (This is the reason you will never see a picture of a woman in a burka be...
believed to exist only on this continent.Chapter 2 Geography and History A.Geography I. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the space provided._F__1. The United States is the world’s second most populous country.
in the economy’s output capacity, the result will be inflation, an increase in the price of everything relative to money. This is precisely what happened in Europe in the years after the Spanish and Portuguese discovered and mined The New World. They brought its ample supply of precious ...
when colonial notes 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-Am...