These explanations are usually present if we care to look for them. It’s easy to imagine that 1914 European leaders must have been out of their minds to start World War I (WWI), but we need to look at it from their perspectives. Austrian generals believed the war would be over quickly...
One year later, in 1775, those delegates convened for the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, in order to plan for their unified defense against British forces. This second gathering of the Congress essentially became the governing body of the United States during the Revolutionary War, wh...
Vice President Kamala Harris: In the last four years I have been vice president of the United States. And I have been traveling our country. And I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus. We are ...
“And why did the Torah command seven days [of impurity] for [giving birth to] a male child but fourteen days for a female?” "זכר שהכל שמחים בו מתחרטת לשבעה נקבה שהכל עצבים ב...
(Against Heresies III.3.2) is something distinctively Catholic (as opposed to Protestant), as is St. Irenaeus’s teaching that “It was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the Virgin...
After 20 years there still is no general consensus as to what courtship is. But here are the elements most conservative communities have in common: The man must ask the woman’s father’s permission before pursuing the woman romantically. High accountability (chaperones, monitored correspondence, ...
bThose who did not report consuming an alcoholic beverage in the past year were assigned 0 average drinks per day. cIndicates significant difference between supplement use groups; P < .05. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey guidelines recommend a relative standard error no ...
In 2003 the Europeans produced seventeen times more biodiesel than the United States did. What’s in short supply is not a viable energy alternative but the common sense to adapt to higher energy prices through the Small-Mart Revolution. 4. PERSONALIZED SERVICES Another piece of good news is ...
dropped in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He quoted historian Bruce Cumings: “Most Americans are completely unaware that we destroyed more cities in the North then we did in Japan or Germany during World War II.” And so we start to open the wound of this war, in which ...
my fear of being polemically impotent now seemed embarrassing. i was ready to love being wrong. so at last i submitted my case for the chemical castration of sex abusers to change my view. you have to post the reasons for your belief, however imminently erroneous; i did that. but i ...