Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn’t been useless. They had been doing an important job---eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases. Now, the people are...
June 19, 1865, “Juneteenth,” was the day freedom finally came to the enslaved people of Texas, and is now celebrated as our second American independence day. But African Americans in eastern North Carolina, in counties already occupied by Federal troops, heard the news of the Emancipation ...
What was happening in China right before the Nanjing Massacre? What was China like before the Cultural Revolution? What laws did the Chinese Cultural Revolution do away with? What is the main effect of the Qing Dynasty? What was a main consequence of the 1911 revolution in China? What did ...
As per Kitco, "For larger transactions, most precious metals traders will use a benchmark price that is taken at specific periods during the trading day." These benchmark prices, known as gold fixes, are typically set twice a day and are based partly on what's happening in the gold spot...
If all of the world's ice caps and glaciers melted, the permafrost would thaw as well, causing a lot of infrastructure to buckle and crumble. It's already happening in Alaska, according to Cathleen Kelly with the Center for American Progress. Kelly writes that the permafrost is "si...
Today it would look like the MDRP’s vision has won out, at least in America (though remember, the MDRP was British) with leisurewear accepted in plenty of professional workplaces and shorts no longer seen as the province of little boys. But the suit remains, and it remains as a symbol...
The decorated trees were nice, the lights were beautiful, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was a great movie, and some of the best Christmas songs were even written by Jews. But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society – it’s been ...
But that view was subsumed in the Cold War as we parried with the USSR for power. And, from that point of view, the CIA was an imperial power: in Iran, Cuba, Ecuador and most of Central America, and, obviously, SE Asia. But there were times when Wilford, I thought, undercut ...
If all of the world's ice caps and glaciers melted, the permafrost would thaw as well, causing a lot of infrastructure to buckle and crumble. It's already happening in Alaska, according to Cathleen Kelly with the Center for American Progress. Kelly writes that the permafrost is "si...
1911 Sharia law declared 1922 Forced conversion of Jewish orphans 1947 Anti-Jewish riots in Aden – 82 Jews killed From Morocco to Yemen there was clear, consistent, and undeniable persecution. Zionism did not send all this over the edge – the Arabs did this all by themselves. Zionism, than...