This was much appreciated, because poverty was abundant during medieval times, and there were epidemics of the plague which ravaged the country frequently. 故事发生在大约400年前德国的一个小镇。这个小镇有一位非常仁慈的伯爵,把自己的大部分收入都用来救济镇上的穷苦百姓。这份仁慈令人非常感动,因为在中世纪...
One notable factor contributing to Japan's GDP being surpassed by Germany in 2023 is the significant decrease of Japan's domestic self-sufficiency rate and what sets Japan apart from Germany significantly is the remarkably low level of inward direct investment, said Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economis...
The Renaissance occurred from about the 1300s to the 1600s in Europe. It was a time of 'rebirth' of the classical arts, music, and literature following the Dark Ages. The word 'renaissance' comes from the Latin word renasci which means 'born again.'...
The tensions and compromises baked into the ICPD PoA result from an alliance between so-called strange bedmates that was forged at the conference (Hodgson and Watkins1996). Overcoming a previously antagonistic relationship, feminist coalitions and neo-Malthusians came together at Cairo over a shared...
Why was Brunelleschi's dome so significant? Why is there much less subduction around the Atlantic than the Pacific ? Why do we say that a molecule of water is polar? Why was Area 51 built? Why is 7x2.5 not a multiple of 7?
Where Is The Significant Place To Celebrate Lag B’Omer? In Meron, Israel, there is the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, which is where hundreds of thousands of Jews gather to celebrate. The roads are closed, and the masses, as per tradition, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai requested that his ...
Western media has been controlled by people closely aligned to Old Testament thinking for most of the 20th century. In 1900, writers like Mark Twain could talk about the torture of animals in labs, or Leo Tolstoy would discuss the slaughterhouses of Moscow. But then there was a shift to fa...
While the global pandemic lasted for two years, a significant number of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918. Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the Spanish flu’s “second wave” was caused by a mutated virus spread by wartime troop movemen...
but it captures the gist of what Bernoulli had to say -- was this: The expected value of any of our actions -- that is, the goodness that we can count on getting -- is the product of two simple things: the odds that this action will allow us to gain something, and the value of...
the population of Macedonia . These were small places that did not threaten U.S. national security or offer significant economic opportunities. Yugoslavia ’s few natural resources were of little interest to Europe and even less to America. By the late 1980s, Socialist Yugoslavia was heavily ...