I WOULD like to add a few remarks to your interesting article about the First World War (Journal, March 11). Was it a just war, a bellum justum? It was a very 'mixed up' war.For some decades prior to 1914 Britain had lived in fear (which at times rose to hysteria) of a ...
How Did Australia Enter Ww1 The Western Front, while the main focus of combat in WW1, many Australians ignore this part of the war, as they focus more on the Gallipoli campaign and its legend. However with the centenary of the First World War here, many people have begun to realise tha...
You post did make me laugh. Just to clear up a couple of things. History - King Arthur and Robin Hood are legends, not people, there is no evidence they ever existed. The way of life - Like you guys over the pond, we do live very busy lives. Check out the tube in rush hour an...
we wouldn't be able to go to different continents. For example if you lived in Japan you wouldn't be able to go to Philadelphia without an airplane. Airplanes are very safe as well. You have a higher chance driving to theairportthen to have a plane crash. And finally it's faster ...
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A recent survey showed that in the last five years the percentage of wives aged 25 to 29 who did not want children had almost doubled and among those 18 to 24 it had almost tripled. What lies behind this decision which seems to fly in the face of biology and society? Perhaps the ...
Virtual Boy was Nintendo’s famously failed ‘virtual reality’ console from 1995, but it wasn’t a ‘virtual reality’ system by any measure that we recognize today. No headtracking, no natural input, highly limited field of view—and did I mention that the display only had a single color...
So, where did where did hello come from? It turns out,hellocan be traced back to the 19th century. It stemmed from variations like ‘hallo’, ‘hullo’, ‘hollo’ and ‘holla’, salutations that had been in use to hail someone since the Middle Ages. ‘Halloo’ was traditionally used ...
Then couples who did get married through courtship started getting divorced. I’m talking the kind of couples who first kissed at their wedding were filing for divorce. This was not the deal! The deal was that if we put up with the rules and awkwardness of courtship now we could avoid ...
You’ll be glad you did. Article Summary In the past 50 years hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into cancer research. However all that research has failed to keep the incidence of cancer from continuing to increase. There is a very good explanation for why cancer research has...