Why was the U.S. involved in the Syrian Civil War? Why did Saudi Arabia join the Syrian Civil War? Why has Aleppo been so severly damaged by the Syrian Civil War? Why did the Syrian Civil War negotiations fail? Why did the Russian Civil War happen?
Why did the Bengal famine happen? Why did the Haitian Revolution happen? Why did Siam become Thailand? Why is the Khmer Empire called a seed culture? Why did the Red River Resistance happen? Why was Angkor Wat converted to Buddhism?
Irish families did not move around much. They tended to stay in one place for generations. Once you have the township, you have a treasure trove of potential records to search, usually in Ireland itself, in the parish churches and the national archives. It may open up your Irish fam...
GMOs (at least the corn, soybeans, cotton & canola I know most about) for the vast majority of us, they look just like the conventional or organic version of the same crop. That’s because they are the same with the exception of a single protein or a few...
it would be even more predominant. Most of the Irish Catholics in the US today are descendants of immigrants forced out of Ireland by the Great Famine between 1845 and 1852. Due to centuries of invasion and conquering, Ireland became fully ruled by England in the seventeenth century after a ...
And this is just one example, when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers in countries such as Greece, while a deadly famine swept Bengal because essentially what the British did was, remember Britain really didn’t have any resources. They did have the resource of brutality, but ...
But it seems we get more hell and heartache for having stuck our nose into their business in the first place...and just how did we get involved, in the first place? We haven't (thank goodness) actively gotten involved in the dispute between India and Pakistan regarding Kashmir...so why...
I ran the numbers, postulating the side by side existance of societies where men (who can father multiple children in a year) did the work of war, against one with women (who can only bear one child per year) sufferiung casualties in equal numbers in war. The second society went ...
It makes quite a bit of sense that Irish artists like U2 and Sinead O'Connor would lend their talents toPeace Together, a 1993 album that raised funds for the youth of Northern Ireland. But there were also contributions from Blur, Peter Gabriel and Billy Bragg, among others. ...
one could well imagine a similar to the Irish Potato Famine Soyabean Famine to be a matter of time. Many vegans would claim that there is aninexhaustiblevariety of alternative-to-meat protein sources. But however wide that variety is, it is but a fraction of the total variety. No doubt ...