assured Manila’s commercial primacy as well. The exchange of Chinesesilksfor Mexicansilvernot only kept in Manila those Spanish who were seeking quick profit, but it also attracted a large Chinesecommunity. The Chinese, despite being the victims of periodic massacres at the hands of the Spanish...
Doumbouya was sworn in as transitional president on October 1, 2021. On October 6 he appointed Mohamed Béavogui to serve as prime minister of the transitional government. Memories of the September 2009 stadiummassacre, in which more than 150 people were killed at a pro-democracy rally during ...
Arthur "Art" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began ...
As an era of Chinese history, the People's Republic follows the Republic of China and continues to the present. The previous regime led by the Nationalist Party fled to Taiwan in 1949. The Nationalists or Kuomintang continued to represent China in the United Nations until 1971, when China's...
The Soviet Union and the United States emerged from the war as global superpowers. Tensions arose between the Soviet-backed Eastern Bloc and U.S.-backed Western Bloc which became known as the Cold War. Stalin led his country through the post-war reconstruction, during which it developed a ...
As always, I live in fear of all the risks you face in the world. At every level – tragedy, the messages circulating trying to chip away at your worth as an African girl, growing up too fast, turning into a teenager and hating me. This was the year of #metoo. The depths of tra...
As an Illinois congressman, Lincoln stood before the House of Representatives and accused President James K. Polk of invading Mexican territory without provocation and then declaring war because “American blood was shed on American soil.” At the time, Lincoln presented several “spot resolutions,”...
He was backed up by two others, one with a knife and the other with what was apparently a toy gun. I had my gun cross-draw under my coat, and I drew and fired.As I like to tell it, I fired two warning shots---one in the lung, and one in the liver. The young man in ...
It's replaced Pandora's former place as my radio. I went on like this until tonight I actually found out there was an app. I just bought it and I am now going to find an excuse to take a drive. Cheers on all your work.Preston, Jonesboro, AR...
Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improv...