However, one of the worst events in history was the way slaves were treated, an informal genocide for over 200 years. Terrorist attacks and shootings, as terrible as they are, don't compare to hundreds of years of forced labor and the suffering of thousands of African people. That should ...
Mark Twain once asserted that ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.’, and so historians constantly attempt to draw parallels between events of modernity and those that have already gone by. In this vein, we turn to the ancient world and cast our gaze back to one of the...
“Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. ”– George Santayana Today, we look at those moments in Tech History that were immortally the worst parts of our timeline. These are events where technology was directly responsible for the event. I have put them in a reve...
Harris was called in from the bullpen in the sixth inning, got Johnny Pesky to ground out, then remained in the game for the seventh with the score at 6-5. Things got ugly fast. Harris walked leadoff hitter Ted Williams, which was followed by a bunt single, another walk, a single, ...
The San Francisco 49ers have made a lot of great decisions in its history. You don't win five Super Bowls and have the success they've enjoyed without many great decisions. But there have also been plenty of bad decisions in the team's history. Since it's the offseason, and decisions...
experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, and underlines the need for short-, medium- and [...] daccess-ods.un.org 表示深切关注荒漠化、土地退化和干旱对非洲大陆产生的不利影响,尤 其是目前正在遭受历史上最严重旱灾 之 一的 非洲 之角区域的危急局势,着重指出 需要采取短期、中期和长...
Wiping out large portions of populations in the areas affected, the worst droughts and famines in history date back several centuries and chronicle some of ...
Scientists said on Wednesday well-preserved fish fossils unearthed at the site are providing a deeper understanding of one of the worst days in the history of life on Earth and shedding light on the global calamity triggered by an asteroid 7.5 miles (12 k...
we go deep into the annals of cinema history and pull out some prime ’80s sleaze (9 1/2 Weeks, Body Double), international and arthouse flicks (3-D Sex and Zen, Romance), LGBTQ-focused (Blue is the Warmest Color, Stranger by the Lake), and threw in stuff that may or may not ...
Below we review three other historical cases of hyperinflation, how they began, and how they ended. The "Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History,"edited by Randall Parker and Robert Whaples, is a primary source. Key Takeaways ...