aArguments over what occurred in Nanjing began almost as soon as Imperial soldiers marched into the city on Dec. 13, 1937 and have only grown in ferocity since. They are played out for the digital generation on YouTube, where hundreds of clips, including Who Witnessed Nanjing and China Could...
aOne way to learn what happened in one of history’s most noxious but disputed episodes is to ask Mizushima Satoru. After what he calls “exhaustive research” on the seizure of the then Chinese capital by Japanese troops in 1937, estimated to have cost anywhere from 20,000 to 300,000 ...
but then suddenly stopped growing in early 1937 and even fell later in the year. The monetary shock, however, was not the Federal Reserve’s decision to increase reserve requirements, but the often overlooked
What caused serfdom in Japan? What occurred during the United States Occupation of Japan? What caused the daimyo and samurai to revolt? Why did the Sino-Japanese War happen? What factors contributed to Japan's decision to occupy French Indochina?
most programs spend much of their time waiting for slow input/output devices to complete their tasks. If a program is waiting for the user to click on the mouse or press a key on the keyboard, then it will not take a "time slice" until the event it is waiting for has occurred. This...
“One robust species with two small incisors in each dentary appears to have been present initially, followed by two contemporaneous species (one robust and another gracile) both of which had one small incisor in each dentary, suggesting both anagenesis and cladogenesis occurred,” they continued...
A noteworthy change to Apple computers occurred in 2007 when Apple officially dropped “Computer” from its name to become Apple Inc. This shift reflected the company’s expanded focus beyond personal computers to a broader range of consumer electronics, including the iPhone, iPod, and the iPad....
A major setback occurred in 1941 when graphite was mistakenly ruled out as a possible moderator in creating a reaction. German scientists turned instead to heavy water (deuterium oxide), an expensive commodity that was in short supply and was reduced by attacks on the production facility in ...
The mainframe can determine why a failure occurred. This capability allows for replacing hardware and software elements while impacting as little of the operational system as possible. Modern mainframe computers also deliver the following unique benefits. ...
following inquiries into short selling that occurred during the 1937 market break. The uptick rule was implemented in 1938 and lifted in 2007 after the SEC concluded that markets were advanced and orderly enough to not need the restriction. It is also believed that the advent of decimalization...