When did the Chinese Communist Revolution start? When did European Wars of Religion end? When did the Qing Dynasty start? When did the Prohibition in Canada begin and end? When did the Revolutionary War begin? When did the First Maroon War begin?
At one raid on a Detroit beer hall, the local sheriff, mayor and a congressman were arrested for drinking. With the start of the Great Depression in 1929, the government sorely needed the tax revenue from alcohol sales, and...
On Friday 16th January 1920 America officially ‘went dry’.For it was on this day that prohibition became law in the United States, ironically at the very start of the decade known as the Roaring Twenties, an era celebrated for its flappers, speakeasies, boot-leggers and stock-market specul...
Looking across countries, there is considerable variation in strictness and severity of prohibitions, and the U.S. does not stand out for being unusually strict. U.S. fireworks sales levels The American Pyrotechnics Association (n.d.) provides data on industry sales (see Figure 1). From 1999...
In Leviticus 11:27, God forbids Moses and his followers to eat swine“because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud.”Furthermore, the prohibition goes, “Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.” That message is later...
The American Tax Policy Institute is pleased to issue this Announcement and Call for Contributions to an event on October 17 and 18, 2024, in Washington, DC, that will explore the intersections between and among gender, taxation, and public policy. Conference co-sponsors include Skadden Arps Mea...
The Before Times Two facts typically surprise people new to the topic of insider trading: 1) That not all trading by insiders is the type of insider trading that leads to legal actions, and 2) That insider trading was entirely legal for much of American history. ...
The first apartheid laws were the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, followed by the Immorality Act of 1950, which worked together to prohibit most South Africans from marrying or having sexual relationships with persons of a different race. ...
When were the Reconstruction Acts passed?Reconstruction:After the American Civil War ended in 1865, Americans had to "reconstruct" the nation. A prominent debate was over how to allow seceded states back into the Union.Answer and Explanation: ...
aHow did you identify the area(s) for improvement? 正在翻译,请等待... [translate] aAccordingly, even if they are designed or sized for use by children, the CPSC Staff’s proposed approach would exclude them from the CPSIA section 108 requirements (Prohibition of Specified Phthalates in Childr...