Confucius did this until he was 30 years old, but he always wanted to do more. He didn’t like the way rulers treated their subjects. He began reading again. He wanted to find a way to help people who were less fortunate than he was. Through many hours of studying, he founded the ...
Querétaro was founded by Otomí Indians and was incorporated intothe Aztec empirein 1446. Until 1531, when it was brought under Spanish control, it served as an Otomí outpost against enemies to the north. Is Queretaro a city or state in Mexico? Querétaro, in full Querétaro de Arteaga, e...
California: slavery was abolished by the constitution of Mexico, 1821, followed by statehood as a free state in 1850 without an organized territorial stage Oregon Country: slavery was not admitted by either US or British authority Abolition of slavery by Congressional action during the Civil War ...
In fact, Trump has a habit of doing this. He oncesuedan architecture columnist forcalling a proposed Trump building“one of the silliest things anyone could inflict on New York or any other city.” The suit was dismissed. He alsosued author Timothy L. O’Brien, business reporter at theNew...
In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst and others, frustrated by the lack of progress, decided more direct action was required and founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) with the motto 'Deeds not words'. What did the suffragettes stand for?
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), founded in 1950, has defined refugees as "people who have fled war, vio- lence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country." Many—if not most—of the people cur- rently ...
My mind wandered back to the years I spent in Mampuján, Colombia. On occasional lazy days, when it was too hot to do anything but chat, I would sit under a shade tree with my neighbours and community leaders, talking about life. Most of the time, it was about the ordinary stuff tha...
Mack was last seen chasing after Raniere in Mexico as cops hauled him away. The actress first lured the women into the secret society within Nxivm known as “The Vow” — and cajoled them into providing “collateral” like embarrassing photos and statements to use as blackmail, federal prosecu...
Today Project Meganom is headed by Grigoryan, Iliya Kuleshov, Artem Staborovsky, and Elena Uglovskaya, and keeps in close contact with the theoretical side of architecture: Grigoryan teaches at his alma mater and until recently he was the Director of Education at Strelka Institute, ...
Colombia's central bank has come a long way from the institution that couldn't reduce the 22% inflation rate that was afflicting the country until less than 10 years ago. The bank adopted an inflation-targeting framework in 2000, which not only led, among other factors, to lower inflation...