of early sound movies made in the period commonly referred to as Pre-Code, from the introduction of sound in the late 1920s to the adoption of the Motion Picture Production Code (often called the Hays Code) in 1934. Technical limitations aside — and these have as much to do with the q...
Time is against Yamamoto however, as his own retirement looms large - and so does the momentum of UMAJF. ▼quote: The father of the Indonesian nation, and the leader in its struggle for Independence: all this, and more, can be used to characterize Soekarno, the President of the ...
He admits with them that, if there is a Jew, he must have the characteristics with which this particular malevolence endows him, and his effort is to constitute himself a martyr, in the proper sense of the term, to prove in his person that there are no Jews”(95). The complexity is ...
No Byzantine would have recognized the term “Byzantine” applied to them. It would seem that, if the West is so keen to claim Rome as its ancestor, then the Eastern Roman Empire should be held in high regard, and yet, we don’t even use its proper name. The problem is that the By...
(although that is not to say they aren’t brutal towards the latter, but that their violence is worse and more widespread against Shi’a Muslims): it becomes very clear that Israel’s short-term political goals in the region are extremely well-aligned with ISIS’ short-term political goals...
Our Long-Term Debt Problem.Long-term debt is an important part of our current system because (a) it enables buyers to afford products, and (b) it helps keep commodity prices high enough to encourage extraction. Unfortunately, long-term debt seems to require economic growth, so that we can...