Wild animals in China can be found throughout the country. From the high mountains of Tibet to the tropical rainforests of Yunnan, there is an incredible variety of species that inhabit this beautiful land. The Tibet Autonomous Region is home to many unique species, such as snow leopards, Him...
The most extreme form of social behavior among rodents is that exhibited by naked molerats (Heterocephalus glaber) from east Africa. These burrowing animals live in underground colonies of up to 80 individuals. A dominant female (a queen) breeds with a few breeding males, but the remaining femal...
similar process ensued in India, then under British rule, and a criminal code was written during the 1830s and eventually enacted in 1861. The code remains substantially in force in India, as well as in Pakistan. Certain parts of Africa that were once British colonies also adopted similar ...
country after another throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Many accounts are recorded of its prohibition or approval as a religious, political, and medical potion. By the end of the 17th century,coffeehouseswere flourishing across Britain, the British colonies in America, and continental Europe...
And then there were Mad King George III of England, who led the Colonies to rebel; King Louis XVI of France was synonymous with decadence and excess; Emperor Hirohito of Japan led his country into a devastating war. This archetype maintains the same characteristics on an individual level, ...
in which it was used on a vast scale. Under these regimes, persons either suspected of opposition or considered racially or nationally unfit were summarily arrested and placed under long orindefiniteterms of confinement in concentration camps, remote labour colonies, or industrial camps and forced to...
but it was the British who formalized and commercialized them. From the late 18th and early 19th centuries, beach resorts spread successively acrossEuropeand theMediterraneanand into the United States, then took root in the European-settled colonies and republics ofOceania,South Africa, andLatin Amer...
but it was the British who formalized and commercialized them. From the late 18th and early 19th centuries, beach resorts spread successively acrossEuropeand theMediterraneanand into the United States, then took root in the European-settled colonies and republics ofOceania,South Africa, andLatin Amer...
It was during the HighBaroque periodthat the organ reached its greatest popularity and found its most important composer inJohann Sebastian Bach(1685–1750). There existed at this time two principal schools of organ building: the French, with its colourful reeds and mutations, and the German and...