Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Did You Know The three largest seaports in Vietnam are in Hai Phong (North), Da Nang (Central), and Saigon (South). In addition, Vietnam has an extensive railway network: the Kunming (China) – Hai Phong (Vietnam) is 855 km long and remains important for cargo transportation. Relocat...
Men Were There.']]>Byline: Matt Soergel North of Baghdad in 2005, the embedded reporter couldn't help but...Soergel, Matt
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of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war,” wrote Norman Mailer inArmies of the Night. That phrase, applied to Vietnam almost 50 years ago, has come back into my head any number of times during the eight months of the last year I’ve spent covering the Mexican drug war. ...
The gravitas of The Roxy as an aspirational venue is not lost on expat Americans. Take musician Bill King. The conscientious objector to the Vietnam War arrived in Toronto in the early 1970s along with his young bride. Despite making his home in Canada for the past 50 years, K...
Why did the United States and Japan become so successful at industrialization and political mobilization after 1860? Industrialization Industrialization is an economic process where a human transforms from an agricultural society to an industrial society. This involve...
Return to Text The Origin of Philosophy:Why the Greeks?In Greece it was of course chiefly the Spartans, the people who resisted the commercial revolution most strongly, who did not recognize individual property but allowed and even encouraged theft. To our time they have remained the prototype ...
not being all self righteous. I looked at my own undergraduate grades this last semester; so, not, not my M.B.A. course where I had a forced curve, but in the undergraduate class where Dr. Duckworth was allowed to do whatever she wanted, and guess what Dr. Duckworth apparently did?
One in four Vietnam servicemen had PTSD symptoms and when the Falklands war happened people also needed counselling. I wanted to be a part of that. We would usually treat someone over a period of 12 days and then see them over a period of weeks or months. If they had a personal expe...