We didn’t see any geisha, nor were we entertained by any of them, but there were a lot of mysterious looking places where we could imagine such entertainment was taking place. Mostly, we just found tourists wandering around the alleys and streets. We ended up at a vegetarian udon noodle...
The Expatriation Act was passed in March of 1907 with a number of impositions, including stipulations that if a woman lived abroad for more than two years or was married to a man who wasn't eligible for citizenship, she could be revoked of her status. The Cable Act of 1922also known as...
Cupp, describing in her response the “overtly conservative belief” she said Kohn was rejecting, entailed as succinct a conservative case for marriage equality ever there was: “…that marriage is a stabilizing social construct that should be encouraged…” That lawmakers might intend to use marria...
Probably as a result of World War I and heightened national sentiments, a Nebraska law was put in place forbidding the teaching of any modern language other than English. The law was challenged and overruled, though, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Justice Reynolds, a teacher...
Wars are horrible whoever starts them. Most wars end in major fatalities and injuries and a massive human and financial cost. And at the end of the war, the situation is often worse than when it started, like in for example Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq and Libya which countries the US inva...
” They then moved some of them to a stadium in Texas. Finally they began dispersing them all over the United States. Some even ended up as far away as Alaska. The plan was for them to return once New Orleans had been rebuilt, but some discovered they liked where they were, got jobs...
Walking through my own neighborhood this week, I was reflecting on norms –not this Norm, but the established, accepted and socially-enforced norms make a neighborhood like mine a rather pleasant, secure and safe place to live, as well as being mildly attractive. We really don’t have to ...
Even the Bad Astronomer was half-fooled initially, perhaps by the enthusiastic caption that still refers to a “hemisphere“. However, as it should be clear given the relative size of the USA to the rest of the world, the “blue marble” does not show a hemisphere, and should be consider...
With his regiment, the 13th Hussars at Lucknow ‘B-P’ completed an eight month garrison course and was posted to Kandahar in Afghanistan and drew maps of the battlefield of Maiwand where the British force had been defeated which were later used in the court-martial of the officers invo...
Wednesday was the culmination of the midwestern governor’s meteoric rise in the party’s ranks, as an emotional Walz accepted the party’s nomination just two weeks after Kamala Harris selected him as her VP pick. “Thank you, first of all, to Vice President Harris. Thanks for putti...