The new rulers conscripted the islanders to dig a canal across the archipelago, and, when the Yapese proved unwilling, began commandeering their stone money, defacing the coins with black painted crosses and te
The Soviet Union fell more than 30 years ago, and Fidel Castro died several years ago as well. Nonetheless, the embargo still persists, although there are a number of exceptions to it. What's an example of an embargo? The Arab oil embargo of 1973-1974 is one of the better-known ...
I really enjoy these what if style games where you have the opportunity to play out something that might of happened had certain conditions been in place. Ty Bomba is really good at thinking these things through and then putting them into a playable wargame. Such is the case withOperation St...
The situation with Adam reminds me of what happened with some housemates I had about a year ago. Back then, I had a clash with one of the two girls I lived with in Jerusalem. She locked me out. So when I made plans for somewhere else to live, they found they had a problem. Both...
Clearly, formatting it FAT32 deleted all the data on it, so I ran the bcdboot command again to re-create it. Success! After a shutdown, the PC booted and came up as if nothing had happened. I’m happy that it’s working again, but it’s still a mystery how the error occurred. ...
stations. XERF's signal could be picked up all over North America and sometimes even in Europe and the Soviet Union. His shows were punctuated with howls and him urging his listeners to "get naked" or "lay your hands on the radio and squeeze my knobs".In 1971, he moved to station K...
What Happened to Zyzz – 2025 Updates Zyzz’s Early Life Zyzz was born on March 24th 1989 in Moscow, then in the Soviet Union, to Maiane Iboian, who works in Hospital Human Resources, and Sergei Shavershian, currently residing in Ukraine. Aziz was raised in Eastwood, New South Wales ...
an ideological struggle between the private capitalism of the West and the “state-controlled capitalism” of the Soviet Union. Resnick and Wolff conclude that the war between pure communism and pure capitalism never happened. “The Soviets didn’t establish communism,” they wrote. “They thought...
A great example happened at an espresso counter in Rome when a gentleman cut in front of me in line to order coffee. Normally I would have made an exasperated noise or comment to let him know that he had transgressed on what I perceive as social protocol, (something that is very impor...
World War II, that there was "just one witness," frequently someone who had climbed out from under a pile of corpses as the sole survivor of the mass murder that took place on that spot.12 The question then became: Was just one witness sufficient to know the truth of what happened ...