Why did the First Intifada start? Why did slavery happen? Why did the Congo Crisis start? Why did the Harlem race riot happen? Why is Zionism important? Why was Nelson Mandela important to South Africa? Why did the Tutsi and Hutus fight?
Why did the Battle of Kosovo happen?Lazar HrebeljanovicLazar Hrebeljanovic, also known as Lazar of Serbia and Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic, was a Serbian prince and ruler of Moravian Serbia, a state that emerged from the disintegrated Serbian Empire. He reigned from 1373 until he died in ...
Why did Guatemala political elites help fruit companies? Bananas for dollars: In the wake of the Spanish American war in 1898, the United States had taken an interest in South and Central America. Primarily, the US was interested in agriculture including the vast crops of fruit that many of ...
But did you know that the gasoline sold during the summer is actually different — and more expensive to produce — than that sold in the winter? Twice every year in the United States, the fuel supply changes. It's known as the seasonal gasoline transition (yes, winter gas vs. summer ga...
“shameful” refugees arriving in the UK on small dinghy boats. Yet her rhetoric did nothing for those fleeing war and deprivation — it was to show she was not on the right of anti-immigrant demagogues like Nigel Farage, once the leader of the UK Independence Party, but also on the ...
And to close the loop fully, our other friend, who had left on the last flight did return early August. She and I overlapped for one day before I went on leave to Europe and there was lots to catch up on. That night, the small group of people at the beginning of the night turned...
So how did the western coastal illegal immigrants feed their way to the East, without Clovis points. Seems like the densest pile of Clovis points is in the central East; Carolinas etc. And evidently the Native American common gene came from Uzbekistan, and went all the way to Patagonia. ...
So, you can have a very rational decision: I am not going to put much in the community right now because I know the problems will not happen for two years.21 Because the legitimacy of the company as an operator on the Hiré concession was built upon promises linked to employment and ...
Thanks MMM for describing the gained knowledge of nailguns. I’ve always thought that a complete financial collapse is something to fear far less than widespread famine and environmental destruction because if we “reset to zero” you know what will happen? many on this site will excel immediate...
Because that is another thing that makes Mountain Lake special: It has small holes on the bottom — lots of holes — that continually drain the water out of the lake and, according to a dye test Watts's team did, deposit the water around a mile away. These holes have been there since...