24. More than 10,000 athletes from over 200 countries and areas took part. The Games saw 43 new world records and 132 new Olympic records. The American athlete, Michael Phelps broke the record for most gold medals in one Olympics. China performed so wonderfully that it won a total of ...
1. Ethiopia is one of the ancient and oldest countries on earth; and Ethiopia is widely considered the site of the emergence of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, in the Middle Paleolithic 200,000 years ago. Ethiopia’s civilization dates way back to pre Axumite kingdom in th...
Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first ...
Fixed exchange rates are also sometimes called pegged rates. One of the critical factors that led to the fall of the gold standard was that after the United Kingdom abandoned its commitment to maintaining the value of the British pound, countries sought to peg their currencies to the US dollar...
thousands of years, many waves of migration to the region made the Middle East ethnically and culturally very multifarious: from the Semitic Sumerians from Central Asia up to present-day Korean, Indian, or Filipino economic immigrants who are searching for jobs in the oil-rich regional countries...
All of these things would never be allowed in democracies such as our own, and if they were, they would be slippery slopes indeed, so people rightfully march in the streets against these violations in their own countries. But when the Syrians marched, their rights did not matter, what ...
What that means is that many countries will at last create National Food Plans[i] – in theory a good thing – but the plans will be guided by corporate solutions. According to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, ‘Even representatives of Indigenous Peoples who...
often called pips, and three court cards. Different countries had different symbols for their suits. For instance, Germany had leaves, bells, acorns, and hearts, while France and England had spades, diamonds, clubs, and hearts. When it came to tarot, Italian suits naturally became the standard...
2024 has also been a great year for Metroidvanias asPrince of Persia: The Lost Crownkicked the year off with a bang. Continuing that momentum this April isTales of Kenzera: Zaufrom Surgent Studios and EA. Spearheaded by Abubakar Salim, the actor behind Bayek inAssassin’s Creed Origins, th...
Institutionalism is, in part, a reaction to realism, which stresses that political actors like states or countries prefer to operate within the status quo rather than risk becoming a rogue state. Pluralism Pluralism has much in common with both realism and institutionalism.In this approach, politica...