As a result, before the 1790s, guns were not used in crimes of passion; angry eighteenth-century people reached for whatever blunt instrument was near at hand, or settled for bare hands and feet. Rioters did not use guns, either (Satia, 2018a, pp. 225–247).Footnote 1 Instead, in ...
as well as a settlement strategy that involved fighting and killing off Native Americans for their land. Their guns and horses gave them a major advantage — as did their immunity. Even the spread of disease, which is thought to have resulted in 75 to 90...
People use methods of suicide with which they are familiar, that are available, and that “make sense” to them as a person. This is called “ego-syntonic means selection.” Police officers use guns, medical people prefer drugs, and pilots choose airplanes. Not always of course, but with...
Dearborn Arsenal, Michigan –The Federal artillery arsenal was built to support American troops during the Indian Wars in the “Old Northwest Territory” and served as an Army depot for repairing guns and storing gunpowder and ammunition. Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan buildings, courtesy Wikipedia. ...
Guns, Germs, and Steel (why did Eurasians dominate the world? why did Europeans conquer Native Americans and not the other way around?) Textbooks. If you’re studying at a university and you use textbooks written by English-speaking authors, you can get the original English versions. If ...
the English Bill of Rights corrected that injustice. InHeller v. District of Columbia(2008), the Supreme Court then ruled that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to own guns, rather than the collective right of a state to have a militia. Yale Constitutional legal scholar, Akhil...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
Who till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.” ♣ “Oh, let the self exalt itself, Not sink itself below: Self is the only friend of self, And self Self’s only foe. ...
we are inexhaustibly creative and hardworking and dedicated while the rest of the world thinks we're only good as hired guns or drug mules, every day we make a monumental effort to put on a happy face and build something resembling a normal life while things around us keep breaking into...
My German friends expressed amusement at how enthusiastic I was about my German spa experience. Some even told me that they wouldn’t be brave enough to do what I did. Seriously, I was more open to getting naked than a native German. ...