When your economy is in trouble, printing more money is often both dangerous and counter-productive. Remember Weimar! To pay off the debts accrued and fines levied after the First World War, the German Weimar...
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Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on 27 June, 1880, a normal, healthy child, the pride of her parents. Captain Arthur Keller and his wife Katherine. Arthur Keller was of Swiss descent, had been a Confederate officer in the Civil War, was a stern, firm, upright man-...
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Islam is the fastest growing religious movement on the planet today. In spite of the fact that the Muslim nation gets so much bad press, is often directly linked with the word "terrorist" in the...
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Sure they grew hemp to make rope and paper. They even used hemp paper on which to draft the Constitution according to this report. But, did they make the leap to discover the finer qualities of the weed? With Ben...
It doesn’t get any more volatile than the War Between the States does it? Today, the electorate is fired up because the economy is a disaster. Between 2001 and 2009, the middle class lost 5% of its income....
When I was in high school, I confronted my European History teacher with a statement made in a book by former US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski that at the beginning of 19th century China produced as much steel as did England. My teacher ridiculed the statement,...
Newt Gingrich has claimed as insightful, and perfectly explanatory of President Obama's behavior, an article claiming that President Obama is possessed by the ghost of his father - whom the writer of the article a Kenyan anti-colonial tribesman - and that as a...
I vaguely remembered General Braddock from American History. As children in public schools, we spend some time on history in our early years of education, though it may take a lifetime to connect the dots...
The beauty of where I live is that I can be at the Smithsonian in 15 minutes and at Great Falls in less than 30 minutes. I am on a mission today to get some photos. Great Falls (Virginia side) is where once stood...
When renowned copper sculptor George Green caught wind the town of Bisbee Arizona intended to pay an out-of-state company to restore the historic, seventy-five year old copper clad Lowell school doors, Green, a Bisbee resident, contacted the local school board with a better...
New Zealand is in the news with the earthquake and all. As everyone knows, it is an island nation in the Southern Hemisphere, a sister to neighboring Australia. From anything I know, it has geography similar to...
The Magnificent Wooden Figures: Reviving an Ancient Art Image Credit In Gilroy, California, a specially constructed theme park features the life’s work of farmer Alex Erlandson: 30 trees grow in the park, each of them unique.The collection of trees Erlandson planted...
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Just as the weather drove the British from Washington in the War of 1812, fierce rain put a damper on the Battle at Ox Hill in the Civil War. " “The thunderstorm and the Battle of Ox Hill In the rain, the Union...
Shivaji was born in a period of Mughal imperial siesta, with the afterglow of Akbar still illuminating the empire of Jehangir, the Just and Shah Jahan, the Magnificent but being a child of the hills (Aurangzeb called him a mountain rat), Shivaji could spot the shadows that...
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Darwin did not pursue his interest in plants and animals seriously until he became friend with the cleric and botanist John Steven Henslow at Cambridge University. On Henslow’s recommendation, he was invited to join the naval survey ship, HMS Beagle, as naturalist and...
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