More generally, other issues regarding U.S.-Japan economic relations have emerged on the agenda of the 113thCongress. U.S. and Japanese leaders have several options on how to manage their relationship, including stronger reliance on the World Trade Organization; special bilateral discussion framework...
Gates said it's believed only 500,000 out of 3.9 million enslaved men and women were freed due to the Emancipation Proclamation. He explained that the Civil War didn't end when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 — which is why it took longer to get word out....
We now have many details of what went wrong atOPERA, the experiment which produced an anomalous result showing neutrinos arriving earlier than expected, widely interpreted in the press as a violation of Einstein’s dictum that nothing can go faster than the universal speed limit, ...
Several modifier genes have been identified which influence the severity of hemoglobinopathies. The most common secondary modifier is the co-inheritance of α-thalassemia and the elevated levels of fetal hemoglobin (HbF), both of which directly reduce the globin chain imbalance. An interacting combina...
the hierarchy of the Priory would probably have been of French origin. Small bequests are documented in the 13th century to the lights of the Holy Spirit and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which seem to support this timing. As well as the church, the ...
The second shipment, sent on 22 April 1686, consisted of seeds from 31 plants, among which the Old World medicinal ‘palma Christie’ (Ricinus communis). Soon after the first shipments of seeds, Suriname’s oldest botanical collections were made around 1687 by an obscure botanist, Hendrik ...
Fig. 1: At left, the mass-type neutrinos (neutrino-1, -2 and -3) have definite masses (still unknown, though some differences of the squares of their masses are known throguh the measurements described below.) At right: the weak-type neutrinos (the electron-, muon- and tau-...
Battle of Verdun: French fortsLocations of French forts in the area around Verdun, 1916, map from the 13th edition of theEncyclopædia Britannica(1926). The fortress ofVerdunwith its surrounding fortifications along theMeuse Riverwas selected because it threatened the main German communication lines...
Battle of Agincourt October 25, 1415 Siege of Rouen July 31, 1418 - January 19, 1419 Siege of Orléans October 12, 1428 - May 8, 1429 Battle of Formigny April 15, 1450 Battle of Castillon July 17, 1453 By most contemporary accounts, the French army was also significantly larger than th...
in April 1853 at Takusa, Kassa defeated Ras (Prince) Ali, the last of a succession of the Oromo lords who had played a central role in the Age of the Princes. After defeating the ruler of northern Ethiopia, Kassa was crowned EmperorTewodros IIon February 11, 1855. Later that year he ...