“The history of Russia is the history of a country that colonizes itself.” This phrase, first coined by the historian Sergei Solov'ev in the 1840s, gained widespread currency thanks to Vasilii Kliuchevskii's Course of Russian History, first published in 1911 and still popular today. ......
Question: Which African country successfully avoided colonization? The Scramble for Africa: Around 1881, European powers began fighting to assume control of the last continent on the world that had not been entirely colonized: Africa. For the next 40 years, Africa suffered intense colonial pressures ...
to a country, of adversaries and enemies, glorification of violence, racist attitudes towards foreigners and even foreign nations and many other perceptions, often misguided by the media and political and other...
截至2011年4月21日22时，沪深两市已有534家上市公司公布第一季度财报。这534家公司实现营业总收入4572.78亿元，同比增长30.74%；实现净利润336.7亿元，同比增长30.52%。不过，一季度销售收入和净利润环比则有所下降，其中营业总收入环比下降12%，净利润环比下降25%，这534家公司2011年一季度存货6167.68亿元，较...
While Vietnam is still touristy, it feels a bit more authentic than Thailand, and I just found the country to feel a bit more edgy. Sometimes it’s hard to put a finger on it, but some destinations you just fall in love with more than others. Vietnam was one of those for me....
The smallest county by area in the entire country, Kalawao County occupies12 square mileson the island of Moloka'i, Hawaii's fifth-largest island. The county is located on the north coast on the Kalaupapa peninsula, which is cut off from the rest of the island by a sheer cliff almost 2...
I might as well get it out of the way at the beginning: Debo Band is not world music. Debo Band is something far more interesting and complex than the safe, de-contextualized commodification of music from the perceived golden age of another country sold in coffeeshop chains to cool dads ...
Moreover, it is the blind belief and naive nature of the masses as well as their weakness of making decisions are what makes a whole country fall into the lies of colonization under the concept of liberation and freedom. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals start craving a change...
The residence of people of fortune and refinement in the country has diffused a degree of taste and elegance in rural economy that descends to the lowest class. The very laborer, with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground, attends to their embellishment. The trim hedge, the grass-pl...
This is why the Chief’shadto win that play off game. These two teams with their respective logos represent the current struggle of the country. One side sees the Colonization of the Continent as evil and in doing so seek to tear down what has come before i.e. statues etc. ...