When was the Anathracite Coal Strike? When was Chernobyl evacuated? When did Cambodia gain independence? When was the Shanghai Massacre? When was the Alaouite dynasty? When was the Oseberg ship discovered? When was the Knap of Howar built? When were the excommunications of the Great Schism ...
Researchers have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive(认知的) areas such as attention and memory. This is true regardless of age. People will be alert(警觉的)and receptive if they are faced...
Trained rats are known as Mine Detection Rats, or MDRs, and they have worked successfully in Cambodia since 2015.【1】When Bart Weetjens was a young boy, he enjoyed ___.【2】As Bart Weetjens grew up, he learned that rats have a very ___.【3】Rats will not cause an unexploded bomb...
When he was 22, Rob Stewart traveled the world for four years. He wanted to call attention to the mistreatment of sharks. His 2007 film, Sharkwater, documents the cruel practice of removing sharks' fins (鳍) for money and leaving the animals to die. In his latest documentary, Revolution,...
While studying in Cambodia, he saw something he would never forget: a village woman bathing her newborn son with detergent. “It is a harsh and toxic alternative to the piece of soap that should never be used on the skin,” Lakhani remembered. “The baby was crying. I didn’t know wha...
Don Diego Velazquez, a wealthy and powerful Spaniard who dreamed of conquering the New World, established the first settlement at Baracoa in 1511. Baracoa is a lovely and peaceful place, and very hard to get to: it was 500 miles round trip from Santiago de Cuba, much of it on tough ...
Cambodia is now firmly established in the tourist firmament, and offers far more than a popular diversion for backpackers looking for thrills and spills (and cheap beer) on their gap year.Even so, I could not get the bloody image of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge out of my mind as our ...
It is well established that [...] the full-scale war between the two countries was preceded by a number of illegal declarations and decisions taken with a view to securing the unilateral secession of Daghlyq Garabagh (Nagorno Karabakh) from Azerbaijan, by attacks at the end of 1987 [....
“The general picture that emerges is that, far from Western Europe having established a decisive economic lead over China and Japan by 1800, there was, in fact, not that much to choose between them,” he writes. “In this light, the argument that industrialization was the product of a ...
and community-oriented approach surfaced more diverse perspectives and new collaboration opportunities. The four-month Challenge attracted 379 submissions with participation from 106 countries—including Kenya, India, and Cambodia—and participants included both startups and established organizations likeSave ...