Why does Spain have a king and a prime minister? Why did British Columbia join the Canadian Confederation? Why did the US make Cuba a protectorate? Why did Brazil want independence from Portugal? Why was the Spanish Revolution important? Why was the Jacobite Rebellion important? Why does Englan...
Why did Brazilian independence involve relatively little violence? Why did Arkansas secede from the Union? Why did Austria-Hungary split? Why did France join the Crimean War? Why were Portugal, Spain, and France independent after the Napoloeonic Wars? Why was Indian Territory ineligible for single...
One decade later, Vasco de Gama went farther than Dias and came back to Portugal loaded with spices from the East. Then the Spanish came along. Unlike Portugal, that based its empire off of naval capabilities, the Spanish based theirs off conquest and colonization. There were many Spanish ...
From Spain, the Phoenicians did something the Greeks did not -- venture out into the Atlantic. They probably went as far as Britain (from which tin was obtained), and certainly went well down the coast of Africa -- how far is unclear, since the Phoenicians kept their doings as secret ...
Every 1,000 years, we go into a period that has historically been called, “The Dark Ages.” Don’t let that label scare you. The most recent “dark ages” period, from the 1500s to the 1800s saw several smaller empires emerge: Spain, Portugal, and England. At the bottom of the ...
e.g. data from Australia across seven hospitals showed 38.8% of 5178 staff respondents reported experiencing UB on a frequent (weekly or more) basis during the past year, with 14.5% experiencing extreme events such as physical assault [1]. Similarly, in a hospital in Portugal, prevalence of ...
For example, one project will have terminals in Berlin and Palermo; another will cover France, Spain, and Portugal, and include Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon.10 This network model has clear relevance for the US, with inter- or intrastate systems analogous to national European rail ...
Europe Portugal-Spain 4 group 3a Latin America Argentina-Chile 11 group 3a Latin America Guyana-Venezuela 4 group 3c North America Canada-United States 13 group 3a North America Mexico-United States 4 group 3c [70] The situation is even more complicated for countries like China and Russia that...
Did you know that there is an ancient city that was quarantined and buried under today’s modern city? We didn’t! Take a ghost tour and see for yourself. There’s plenty of acting but its good fun. 9. Porto, Portugal It didn’t take long for us to fall in love withPorto. I be...
This month, the RENIXX stood at 1,013 points, essentially zero value growth over the last 18 years. In comparison, the S&P 500 Index more than quadrupled over the same period. The RENIXX is down three years in a row from 2021, losing about half its value