The Cold War period is one of the most defining episodes in world history. The Cold War shaped geopolitical and geo-statistics alignment between most of the world’s nations. The world was commenced at the end of Second World War 1945 and lasted to the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. Origin of term The origin ...
He was the son of a pope and brother of the notorious poisoner Lucrezia Borgia. Cesare Borgia was born in Rom in 1476 while his father, Pope Alexander VI, was still a cardinal. The son of Alexander’s mistress, Vanessa die Catani, Cesare was his father’s favorite son, according to NNDB.com. Since nepotism under Alexander Vi’s ...
Over the course of the Vietnam War, a total of 238 Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to American forces. Of that number, over sixty percent of the 150 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded were done so posthumously. One of the soldiers that won our country’s most prestigious award for valor made it out of ...
In early April of 1942, about 54,000 US troops surrendered to the Japanese forces in the Philippines. They were forced to March 65 miles of treacherous terrain to a POW camp. Many died from malnutrition, disease, and Japanese brutality. It is estimated that only two out of three survived. The Japanese were ill prepared to ...
The world in which we live is one that is defined by languages; these are man-made means of communication like most other forms of communications the world knows of today. Often the terms that people are acquainted with are ones that are quite fluid, and often there is severe confusion because of this fluidity. Indeed ...
It is to be assumed that no book can be 100 percent perfect; nearly any history book will have either a handful of translation/interpretation of event errors or, at the very least, present positions that are still in dispute and cannot be immediately verified. Under normal circumstances, this would be overlooked as the education in ...
At the age of 7, Amelia Earhart constructed her own roller coaster using fence rails and roller skates. Amelia Earhart and her younger sister Muriel often wore loose pants called bloomers, which shocked many ladies of the day. During the First World War, Amelia left college and joined her sister in Toronto, Canada, to become ...
The 1989, Japan’s fertility rate hit a record low of 1.57, well below the replacement rate of 2.08. Shocked, the Japanese government brought the situation to the public’s attention, and in attempt to raise their country’s birthrate they introduced the Angel Plan. Japan has a large population of 127,433,494. Its population is aging rapidly, with ...
It had been a time of unprecedented prosperity in America. Everybody seemed to be capitalizing on the continued economic growth and it looked like the good times would never end. Gradually, however, some dark clouds appeared on the horizon. Oh, sure, it was easy enough to ignore the signs that something bad might be on ...
Jane Addams was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also a suffragist, a social reformer, a pacifist and the founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement. Jane Addams was born September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois, to John H. and Sarah Weber Addams, the eighth children of nine born ...
