Three-Fifths Compromise (Article I, Section 2, Clause 3): This clause determined that for purposes of representation in Congress and taxation, each enslaved person would be counted as three-fifths of a person. This gave slaveholding states more political power than if only free persons were cou...
Although several other babies are likely to have been born at the same time elsewhere in the world, the United Nations had declared that the first child to be delivered at the Kosovo Hospital in Sarajevo today would symbolize the passing of the mark. The U Secretary General is visiting the ...
My daughter Mary's fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out what they had mastered (掌握) and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed. You can use the same way when you eva...
Basically I do not like them, particularly on gorgeous women, but there were times when we lived in Winnipeg and we would take a month’s vacation up at Victoria Beach on Lake Winnipeg and I would not shave for a month. A red haze would appear after a week or so, but by the end ...
If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed they will never become totally independent.My daughter Carla’s fifth - grade teacher made every child in ...
Women being towed on a barge by boat through the flooded Fraser River. Image # I-61715 courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives. Photo taken by Photographer Mickie Jones is a striking example of the way cattle and horses were stranded in the rushing floodwaters. It was taken...
Imagine that for some reason you were immortal. And let’s say you were a hard-working immortal who didn’t sleep and instead worked twenty-four hours a day, every day of every year, up to the present day. Today, in this unrealistic hypothetical, you would have around $33 billion, ...
who’s been called the "most polarizing women’s tennis player of her generation,” was the first to shirk the bulky tennis undergarments of the time. From age 15 onwards, Lenglen won 250 championships over her 12-year career. She is pictured here at Wimbledon in this photo from the Hul...
Until July's accident in China, the only accident-related fatalities ever recorded on a high-speed train were on a German derail- ment that occurred between Hannover and Hamburg in 1998. Neither Japan nor France has ever incurred fatalities in their long histories with HSR. But the most ...
Plants doing mathematics is the latest belly laugh from the crackpot fingest of science. But scientists are human like the rest of us and therefore inclined to see what they want to see