However, after governments from Western countries like the United States intervened, the project was unnecessarily politicized. When Angolan officials privately asked if we could take over the project in case the Western consortium withdrew, we refused due to the political risks involved." Over two ...
Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the ...
The founding of the park isthanks to a man called Sogo Hara. An employee of the Nagano Electric Railway (Nagano Dentetsu), Hara was a keen hiker who discovered the original troop while trekking through an area known as Jigokudani, or the ‘Valley of Hell’, in 1957. The area was named ...
Why is it called the Columbian Exchange?The Columbian Exchange:The Columbian Exchange began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World in 1492. The Columbian Exchange refers to the interaction, trade, and migrations that occurred between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after his voyage in ...
During MediaNama’s discussion, Deep gave the example of a Malayalam film that carried a disclaimer for domestic violence. “And that was a voluntary warning if I remember correctly. But the fact that they felt compelled to put it in that ‘Hey, domestic violence is against the law. It at...
calculation in about a third of the compute time it took the team from Google Cloud. ("While RAID 0 might raise some eyebrows," Ranouswrote, "in our defense, the file server storage was carved out of a mirrored Windows Storage Spaces pool, so redundancy was available on the remote host...
However, by adjusting the grasp, the potential extent of continuous rotary or linear hand movements was increased. Moreover, participants selected grasp positions that facilitated the upcoming movement, for example, by increasing the control over the manipulated object before placing it (Herbort & ...
These decisions may seem trivial, but as the infamous 2000 election fiasco in Florida showed, ballot design can quite literally affect electoral outcomes. That ballot was ordered in a way that caused some Al Gore supporters to accidentally vote for third-party candidate Pat Buchanan. Experts have...
It has been a jittery few months for investors as an ill wind not Canadian wildfire smoke, US heatwaves, or flash floods swept through financial market here, there and everywhere. The failure of a “too-big-to-fail” global bank and a few US institutions was one of the causes of the ...
Fungibility implies that two things are identical in specification. Individual units can be mutually substituted. Specific grades of commodities such as No. 2 yellow corn are fungible because it does not matter where the corn was grown. All corn that's designated as No. 2 yellow corn is worth...