A conflict of interests and colonial rivalry involved two camps: the Central Powers (同盟国)--mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey; and the Allies (协约国)--mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy and from 1917, the United States. The conflict plunged the whole world into two ...
Although Stalin’s policy in the mid-1930s was to support the Communist International (Comintern) in forming a popular front against the rise of fascism in Europe, he gave up the idea of collective security with the West and in August 1939 decided upon an alliance with Nazi Germany. The “...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
The P-38 is part of the famous "Lost Squadron," a group of six P-38s and two B-17s on a flight to Iceland that had to turn back because of bad weather in July 1942, and were forced to crash-land. Though the crews were rescued, the planes were abandoned and gradually enveloped ...
Raffield stresses the need to more fully excavate Viking sites where slaves are believed to have lived. Ultimately, there may be limits to how much we’ll ever know about forced labor in the Viking Age, beyond the evidence gleaned from written sources and archaeological digs. ...
A case in point is the playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who gave birth to her daughter Lucy Jane when she was forty-eight years old. Lucy Jane was extremely premature, despite the drugs that Wendy had been given to keep her from going into labor too early. For a while it was touch and go...
Top 10 Call Centers in the World Throughout the years, the Philippines has consistently been considered one of the best countries to outsource, according to Tholons. Below is the TSGI 2020 Top 10 Digital Nations: India United States Brazil Canada United Kingdom Philippines Russia Mexico Vietnam...
Who is delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union? Alabama Sen. Katie Britt will deliver the Republican rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union address. At 42, Britt is the youngest woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. Her counter address comes two weeks ...
Inflation is measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics using theConsumer Price Index(CPI) to measure the dollar's purchasing power in the U.S. The CPI is an index of the prices for about 94,000 commodities and services: approximately 8,000 rental housing unit quotes and prices for airline...
A crack-up boom is the crash of the credit and monetary system due to continual credit expansion and price increases that cannot be sustained long-term.