When did the Russian Civil War end? When was the Ottoman Empire decolonized? When did the War on Poverty end? When did the Ottoman Empire join the Central Powers? When did Somalia gain independence? When did the Congress of Vienna end?
When did the Cold War begin? When did Ukraine join the UN? When did the Russian Civil War end? When did Russia enter WW2? When was the Cold War era? When was the Soviet Union formed? When was the invasion of Czechoslovakia? When was the detente between the Soviet Union and Western po...
When did the Inca Civil War begin? Incan Empire: By 1500, the Incan peoples had built a huge empire, possibly the largest in the world, across the Andes Mountains. Their empire was cosmopolitan, involving many ethnicities and languages, all ruled from Cuzco in modern Peru. ...
Contrary to what is often claimed, the Emperor on each occasion did not insist on the full kowtow. He was very much aware of how valuable the British were as a trading partner. And while it’s not clear that he and his court could fully grasp what the British wanted (and likely would...
However parking a tanker across the Kersh Strait and effectively turning the Sea of Azov into a big pond is not something that can be ignored. Neither are the clashes between Ukrainian and Russian navies as a result. Russia, or more accurately the FSB charged with protecting “Russian borders...
Yeah, he did. And that was different. It was different because we were in a long cold war. Yes, he was buying into enemy propaganda, part of it being because he was a man of his time, and he didn’t see the problems inherent in central control (of anything, really) and part of...
The Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin announced the 'Primeval Soup' model for the conditions where life could have arisen on Earth billions of years ago. The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Niels Bohr of Denmark. The white blood cell was discovered, and Insulin was first made ...
Judge Michel rightly said that the patent system has become the domain of propagandists, “narrative” builders and spin artists, and not experts. For example, we hear these patent propagandists scream “God save us from patent trolls!” But, did anyone ever ask where the term “patent troll...
Mike Alkari (The Supreme Commander of the Russian Opposition Territories.) Nancy Suzy Fish (The Supreme Commander of the Nat Peterson (The Supreme Commander of Tokelau.) Nat Peterson (The Supreme Commander of the Cayman Islands.) Nazz-Mimi Rechid (The Supreme Commander of Saint Helena, Ascensi...
the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the “coming apart” process started in 2016, in my opinion we are going to see many more steps in this direction in 2017. Let me explain a few of the things I see....