Most of the money to day is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money in many places, in China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, ...
Daniel James Brown’s nonfiction saga tells the unlikely story of the University of Washington men’s row team, which competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and beat out Hitler’s German rowing crew. The Boys in the Boat is a triumph of sports history and of storytelling from a local au...
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Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. Ne...
Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. 【3】 One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks, monkey tai...
When they work, they usually get paid in money. Most of the money today is made of metal or paper.【2】One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as ...
What Kind of Daytells the story of Ben and Naya and well, their respective career crisis. Ben is a speechwriter for a Philippine senator (or at least until that day when he accidentally joined Naya’s city tour because unfortunately, he got fired!) while Naya makes a living from her pas...
Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, 'India's First Virtual Community and the Telegraph General Strike of 1908.'International Review of Social History 48(2003), pp. 45-71. Bruce Hunt, 'The Ohm is where the art is: British Telegraph Engineers and the development of electrical standards', inOsiris(199...
Whitcomb was a World War 2 veteran who also spent time as a P.O.W held by the Japanese, escaping twice(!) and even wrote a book about his experiences, titled “Escape from Corregidor.” After his escape, he fought with the Philippine Resistance. In short, it seems like he was a rea...
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