Additions on October 4, 2005 introduced romanticised descriptions of Vikings as ‘tall, savage, and war-like’ and ‘wandering raiders and mercenaries.’Footnote 39 An uncited claim that ‘the system of “feudalism” in Europe, which included castles and barons (and was a defence against Viking...
The withdrawal was completed the following year, although the civil war continued as the Mujahedin pushed to overthrow the pro-Soviet Najibullah government. An estimated 28,000 Soviets were killed between 1979 and 1989 as a result of the Afghanistan War. Gorbachev in one-on-one discussions with ...
This experiment shows that a male butterfly will ignore a living female butterfly of his own species in favor of a painted cardboard one if the cardboard one is bigger than he is—bigger than any female butterfly ever could be. After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousand...
(1937) a travel book in prose and verse written with Louis MacNeice, which included his long social, literary, and autobiographical commentary "Letter to Lord Byron".[38] In 1937, after observing the Spanish Civil War he wrote a politically-engaged pamphlet poem Spain (1937); he later ...
(Image above:source) *Ben Hecht(fromErik Dorn, his first novel, written while he was a journalist covering the aftermath of World War I in Berlin for theChicago Daily News) ### As we contemplate civil discourse,we might recall that it was on this date in 1768 that the first volume of...
Hughes's poetry was frequently published in the CPUSA newspaper and he was involved in initiatives supported by Communist organizations, such as the drive to free the Scottsboro Boys. Partly as a show of support for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War,[86] in 1937 Hughes travele...
rebellion. [37] A Freemason makes a further obligation, before being made Master of his Lodge, to pay a proper respect to the civil Magistrates. [37] The words may be varied across Grand Lodges, but the sense in the obligation taken is always there in regular Freemasonry....
Wales comments addedundue weight[52](WP:UNDUE) to criticism of Brandt when placed within his biographical entry, yet another systemic violation of Wikipedia's own written policies. All hope for a civil and equitable resolution to the impasse was lost, and many unwitting dupes in the Wikipedia ...
the CCP. The model for this was the Chinese communist rural Protracted People's War of the 1920s and 1930s, which eventually brought the CCP to power. Furthermore, unlike other forms of Marxism-Leninism, in which large-scale industrial development was seen as a positive force, Maoism made ...
The film is a scathing indictment of Blair’s war profiteering; Galloway and many of the people he interviews call for Blair to be tried for war crimes at The Hague. Unfortunately for Galloway, Blair is a close friend of Wales, whose wife Kate Garvey previously worked as his diary ...