Politics and World Events Disasters & Violence People & Culture Sports The decade of the 2010s began amid the chaotic wake of a globalfinancial crisisand ended with the impeachment of a U.S. president. The growing use of social media fueled mass protest movements, bringing millions of people ...
The United Nations declared 1975 International Women's Year and organized the first World Conference on Women, held in Mexico City. Susan Brownmiller's "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape" was published. The Supreme Court ruled inTaylor v. Louisianathat it was unconstitutional to deny women...
The civil rights movement got its start in the 1950s as returningAfrican-American veteransfrom World War II began demanding equal rights. Many questioned how they could fight to protect a country that refused to honor their civil rights. The 1950s also saw the rise of Martin Luther King Jr....
The land revolution of “equal distribution” agrarian system embodied the fundamental demand of traditional peasants for the past several millennia. The war spurred the mobilization of the largest peasant population in the world to participate in the...
In the 1960s, medical researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a checklist of stressful events. They appreciated the tricky point that any major change can be stressful. Bad events like “serious illness of a family member were high on the li
In particular, we categorized as uncertain 45 major explosions that reportedly occurred before 1985 and tested the effect of excluding these events from our analysis. Moreover, after analyzing the entire record in the period [1879, 2020], we separately considered, as sequences, events in [1879,...
The snow in North China may last a whole day, breaking tree branches and blocking the road. The natural scenery is"ice blockading for hundreds miles and snow flying through thousands miles".In the South,the snowflakes swirl around and the world turns wh...
China is a large country, and it is particularly rich in mountains. China includes the majority of the largest mountain range in the world: the Himalayas. The Tibetan Plateau has been part of China since it was seized in the 1960s, and it's often called the 'Roof of the World' because...
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the top baseball league in the world. While America popularized baseball and retains a strong cultural connection to it, the sport has also been embraced across the globe, notably inCuba, theDominican Republic,Puerto Rico, andJapan, where many contributions have been made to baseball’s deep and...