1913, America decided to make the second Sunday of May Mother's Day and every family had to put up a national flag(国旗) to show their love for mothers. Later, it became an important festival to remember and praise all the mothers in the world. In China, some people want to have our...
1913: The Horrible Year For all the problems America had prior to 1913 (including the unnecessary and horrifying Civil War), nothing spelled the death of the nation like the horrors of 1913. Here are the key dates: February 3rd: The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratifi...
This privately held monopoly continues even today to give enormous power to a handful of international bankers, non-Americans, to issue America’s money, to set interest rates, to finance endless wars, and to enslave the American citizens, and the other nations of the world in a state of pe...
In 1915, a statistician by the name of Willford I. King expressed concern over the fact that approximately 15% of America’s income went to the nation’s richest 1%.3A more recent study by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez estimates that, in 1913, about 18% of income went to the top 1...
South AmericaCoal was crucial to the growth of several South American states between 1850 and 1913, being used for their expanding railway networks, to generate power for their emerging industries, and by the steamships in which much of their overseas trade was conducted. Lacking indigenous ...
In the northern edge of the Bloomingdale neighborhood, add Mr. Sobel’s theater, and, close by, his disorderly houses. There’s another piece of background to the 1918 raid story. The United States was a full year into World War I by the spring of 1918. The Spanish Flu pandemic was...
Historians say Harriet Tubman was born in the year 1820.Nobody really knows.But we do know that Harriet Tubman was one of the bravest women ever born in the United States.From a very early age,Harriet knew how slaves suffered.At six years old,she was sent to the fields.Working outside...
Historical accounts vary as to whether this temple was first constructed (at the site ofKensington Star Hotel) by the famed Buddhist monkJajang-yulsa(590-658 A.D.) in 653 A.D. (the sixth year of the reign ofQueen Jindeokof theSilladynasty), first called Hyangseongsa (Temple of Zen ...
根据第一段第一句 "People in America celebrate Mother's Day. The first Mother's Day was in1913in America. It's also a holiday in some other countries like Denmark(丹麦)and Italy(意大利). It's on the second Sunday in May." ,可知母亲节是在五月的第二个星期天。所以答案选C。细节理解题...
The end of the year brings with it a stunning new translation of the entire Divine Comedy by the poet/scholar Michael Palma, already celebrated as the preeminent translator of Italian poetry into English. What he achieves in this monumental volume is quite extraordinary---"As a poet myself,"...