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Also, an American regiment visited there on arriving in France during WWI. Charles Stanton, an officer, famously said "Lafayette, we are here," among the remarks given in respect for Lafayette's contribution to the Revolutionary War.
I think you are going to need a state by state answer. Statistically the number imprisoned almost doubled during the great depression. But congress passed laws to limit the selling of goods produced with prison labor (Notably the Hawes-Cooper Act). But I don't have enough knowledge to address how these twin stresses on the prisons and the prison population were dealt with in any particular locale.
Here are a few sources:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3408900129/hawes-cooper-act.html
http://law.jrank.org/pages/1782/Prisons-History-Modern-prisons.html
BTW, this period saw the growth in black men being incarcerated grow three times faster than the general population so a state by state analysis should probably consider the racial differences in how prisoners were treated.
While this is a positive development, this legislation is almost certainly unconstitutional. The Senate could enact a law that would create a special prosecutor or independent special counsel, or they could create an independent commission and make Meuller head.
But they definitely cannot constitutionally limit the President's ability to fire DOJ personnel.
This is a nice symbolic action that they would take one of the legal actions I described, but this legislation is worthless and would set Trump up for an easy court win.
Edit - Here is a short summary of the President's removal power. It cannot be limited.
>In Myers v. United States (1926), however, the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional an 1876 law that required presidents to secure the Senate's consent before firing "postmasters of the first, second, and third classes" (19 Stat. 78, 80). Chief Justice William Howard Taft, delivering the Court's opinion, noted that to fulfill his constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," the president must retain an unrestricted power to remove subordinates.
It is possible, but the task is very difficult and labor intensive.
The biggest issue is gathering enough spider silk. Unlike silk worms which can be housed in very dense populations, spiders tend to prey on one another if attempts are made to gather many in one place. This would almost restrict the silk gathering to either very large isolating structures or from spiders in the wild.
The second issue you would need to deal with is that much of the spider silk is covered with additional materials to make them sticky. This would make spinning into some kind of thread almost impossible without coating the silk with a material like diatomaceous earth or treating it with a solvent to remove these materials. Either way, this would tend to lessen the overall strength of the threads.
The final issue is the strength and rarity of the spider silk means that you would want to use the smallest diameter thread possible. This would mean having over 1000 threads per inch (and this could be very much higher in number). This might push the limits of most looms.
Artificial spider silk has been investigated as fibers for cloth. It seems to have properties similar to Kevlar. Source(s): http://www.encyclopedia.com/SearchResults.aspx?Q=Silk&StartAt=61
This could be true, but there are other possible reasons for the red crystals. A pack rat means someone who likes to collect and hoard things. Also, there is an actual pack rat animal that is "noted for its habit of collecting bright, shiny objects" (source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-and-animals/animals/vertebrate-zoology/pack-rat).
The only one that comes to my mind is Gilles de Rais. He was a child serial killer that most likely killed from 80 to 200 children. However, some authors claim that he could have killed around 800 children. It is hard to tell because he either burned or buried the bodies. (http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Gilles_de_Rais.aspx#1-1G2:3403801926-full)
There were a few reasons why did he do such horrible things. The first one is his interest in satanism. He killed those kids as a sacrifice. The second one was his interest in children in a sexual way. The third one was because he was just a psycho. Gilles testified that “when the said children were dead, he kissed them and those who had the most handsome limbs and heads he held up to admire them, and had their bodies cruelly cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed” (This quote is from Wiki)
In 2015, the United Nations is celebrating its 70th anniversary. More information here and here
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Grace Hopper developed (as in engineered) one of the first compilers, after being told by her male counterparts that such an idea was impossible because computers couldn't understand English. Also, "She was one of the two technical advisers to the resulting CODASYL Executive Committee." This was in the late 40s, early 50s.
She was also influential in creating and promoting the idea of subroutines in programming, something that is used in nearly all coding best practices.
Other women, such as Marlyn Meltzer, Betty Holberton, Kathleen Antonelli, Ruth Teitelbaum, Jean Bartik, and Frances Spence, were the primary programmers for ENIAC. And programming here wasn't some trivial task — it involved solving difficult issues such as modularity, debugging, storage of instructions as data, and other ground breaking work.
So don't tell me that when programming was dominated by women that is was just "a branch of secretarial labor." It wasn't. More accurately, some women were pioneers in computer science and software engineering. Women been engineers for longer than this past half century and will continue to be able to be great engineers.
Sources: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
Walter Isaacson's The Innovators
http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/law/law/child-custody
Oh look, citations and everything. 70-80% single custody goes to women before anything ever goes to court.
Go be a bitch somewhere else.
~~The shock wave comes off the explosion, bounces off the walls of the pool, moves back inward and concentrates back in the middle and repeats.~~
EDIT: I don't think I'm right about that - I think it's actually something called bubble pulse, more info
EDIT: It seems to be an interaction between the gas caused by the explosion and the water. The gas is "springy", it stores a lot of energy when it's compressed and the water does not. So it's like the gas is springing back and forth against the water as the event progresses (gas expands, water does not compress so it pushes back against the gas, etc. continuing the oscillation).
Jackson was a mixed bag. Like most of them back then.
He did work to extend the right to vote to men without land.
That was huge. He was a "Democrat" literally because he was expanding democracy back then...
Granted, that's long before the vote went to women or black folk - particularly in the south.
But allowing renters and factory workers and sons of immigrants to vote was a huge step forward, and changed the country tremendously.
Jacksonian Democracy was vitally important in US political history.
EDIT: The Wiki article for Jacksonian Democracy sucks. Replaced with encyclopedia.com article instead.
Slaves were neither free or tax free. Funny how we change history based on our interpretation and not facts...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/property-taxes-slaves
While not extensively studied - possibly because of its rarity - it's known as GSA or genetic sexual attraction.
Research has shown quite a bit of support for similarity-attraction theory. - Basically we're attracted to people that are like ourselves (with some caveats). Attraction to an "opposite" usually on deeper examination shows that opposite is only superficial.
If we accept similarity attraction theory and that we also develop our analogues for our ideas of what each sex should be from our parents, GSA isn't that much of a surprise.
One suggestion is that while GSA is ubiquitous, it is countered by a natural suppression learned from growing up within a family unit. However when a family is broken up or is particularly fractured, this suppression does not develop and the GSA can occur.
Whoo-wee. It's really hard to overstate just how bad things got in Russian between '91 and '97. The easist answer I can describe it, imagine the Great Depression, but worse, waaay worse. This site gives some figures, but it doesn't really do half the justice that I wish I could do to just how bad things were. This site also gives some figures, but none really describe the crushing poverty that 90% of the Russian populace faced in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the USSR. Their savings became worthless, their jobs couldn't pay them, their government couldn't feed them.
Recent Anthropology grad here. To my understanding, it's mostly followed by Franz Boas' establishment of his brand of 4-pronged American Anthropology. Mostly the use of;
1)Archeology to show all cultures have had their own historical development
2)Linguistics to assert all languages have their own rules and complexity
3)Cultural and Biological Anthropology to assert that all cultures are complex and have had independently developed according to their own circumstances. Biological Anthro was done more so to disprove the scientific racists of yore that minority groups we're considered lesser or even a lesser species
I'm a bit rusty, but the anecdote that stuck to me the most about Boas' early work was his study on immigrant children in New York. Dominant consensus was that immigrant groups were inherently inferior due to their destitute social conditions which were "validated" by measurements of their physical features. At the time, measurements of skull sizes were THE way to determine a racial group's superiority over another. Boas' assertion that it was a prejudiced, negligible factor induced by malnutrition and social neglect was radical at the time and changed the way to how we see race
I believe his paper was "“Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants” (1912)". This write up on Encyclopedia.com has more sources you can peruse http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Franz_Boas.aspx
Edit: non-immigrant to immigrant. Derp
>Is THAT why tons of people got raped? > >Sherman was a terrible person who helped quickly end a terrible war by allowing terrible things.
That is lost cause propaganda
Found this after digging for a while. Might just have to add that to the wiki.
>The fact that blood contained iron was discovered in 1747 by Menghini, who showed that if blood was burnt to an ash, iron-like particles could be extracted by a magnet.
Uh too much government there. Unless we want to go back 30 more years to the times of the Meat Trust. When meat was spoiled the meat-packing oligpolists would just treat it with chemicals to cover up the odors, and dillute it under fresher meat. Then it was shipped to the stores. Sometimes they failed at covering up how bad their meat was, and it literally killed people.
This was part of what lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act, a brazen powergrab of the government in its totalitarian attempt of ruling our lifes, by making sure that consumers don't get killed from the foods and drugs they purchase.
But hey, let's just deregulate businesses, right?
>Can US states make foreign treaties?
Nope. It's in our Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause
I'm not sure if they can make agreements that would be legally binding, or even subject the states to lawsuits. I found this:
>>States can make an "Agreement or Compact" with other states or with foreign powers but only with consent of the Congress
But I'm not sure if what Brown is doing is of the nature that it would trigger the need for Congress to approve. He'd want to avoid that, because in all probability the Republicans would kill it. I suspect it's just symbolic, a show of good faith and intent.
On one hand, this sounds like an example of Lamarkian genetics (which proposed that acquired traits can be inherited). And that line of thought was rejected ages ago in favor of Mendelian genetics.
Well, rejected by almost everyone- the Soviets embraced the idea and it lead to famine that killed millions of people.
On the other hand, there's been a lot of work done in the field of epigenetics- changes in organisms created by gene expression instead of modification of the gene code itself.
It turns out that acquired traits <em>can</em> be passed on to the next generation.
It seems as if the experts don't have a definitive answer.
Farm animals don't always have ultrasounds and abortions, and deformed children are more likely to be photographed for educational purposes than entertainment.
In humans an average of 22% all pregnancies leading to a defect, about 3% of live births. Most fetuses with defects are aborted spontaneously. Sudan has the highest rate with approx 80 defects per 1000 live births.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/birth_defects.aspx
http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/millions-of-birth-defects-in-poor-nations-prevent.html
The figures for livestock are about the same.
Republicans in 1928: "A chicken in every pot"
Trump in 2016: Golden showers for everyone.
They weren't, getting it so wrong. Those scientists weren't allowed to look closer.
Sugar is one of the world's largest industries. Here in the US, it's such a big industry, the federal government props it up.
The doctrine of concurrence which is held by Catholics and many Protestant denominations that I know of would say yes, both. God is the ultimate source of all good, but we also have the honor of working with God and allowing God to work through us. So the good things you do are a joint effort - God empowers you to do them, and your cooperation with God is part of God working through you.
We should be humble and recognize that God is the ultimate source of the good in us and the good we do, but we should also balance that with the recognition that God created us to do and be good and celebrate what we accomplish!
Have you seen how people in emerging economies speak English, wear American brands (or knock-offs) and often display an atrocious version of the language? Yet they persist in emulating what is considered the center of the culture.
Well, that is the Firefly universe. The Chinese are the center of the universe, and the rest of the worlds where Serenity travels are, aptly named, the periphery.
>No it's not. Social constructs are unique in that they are not actually written or bound by any explicit agreements.
What basis do you have for this assertion?
Looking up several dictionary definitions and articles on the term, none of them use anything like that restriction, and often include examples such as games with sets of rules which explicitly would not meet the standard you propose.
As we all know, Populism isn't new... and populist movements tend to arise in response to something. In this case it's shifting demographics, globalization and a technological revolution that are all working together to place enormous pressure on the post war way of life that folks have taken for granted for so long.
Populist leaders pose simple solutions to complex problems. That's what makes them so popular.
We are indeed lucky to have dodged the scenario of two populist candidacies in 2016. The outcome would have been less than good no matter who won.
I think disease was the big killer. Here you see the statistics of the U.S. military and it wasn't until WW2 that battle deaths were greater than disease deaths.
Sorry, you're incorrect. Psychopath is indeed the correct term. Dr. Hare is one of the leading researchers in the field. http://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hare-psychopathy-checklist
I was mostly basing that on what I've observed, personally. When I did a quick search for some data I found this:
>Studies have also consistently found that mothers spend more time than fathers in feeding, supervising, and caring for children, although men have increased their time with children, especially in conventional gender-typed activities like physical play (Parke 1996). However, effective parenting also includes providing encouragement, meeting emotional needs, anticipating problems, facilitating social and intellectual learning, and enforcing discipline, activities for which mothers are primarily responsible. Even if couples share housework before they have children, they often shift to a more conventional gender-based allocation of chores when they become parents (Cowan and Cowan 2000).
Alright, coming from an unmarried father in California, this isn't really true. I signed my child's birth certificate. I had a paternity test performed and confirmed. When it was clear that my son's mother and I weren't going to work out, I filed a paternity action that further established my rights as a father in California.
The only way you can 'deny all contact' is if the father isn't fit to raise the child or unwilling to co-parent with the mother.
The reason 'defer to the mother' is what you think it is, is because men abandon their children at a much higher rate than women. Pseudo-source.
Many sources cite Constantinople, or new rome, as second rome.
Examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome
Perhaps the decision by Adm. Nagumo to not launch a third strike vs. Pearl Harbor and hit the repair and oil storage facilities there -- it would have denied the US a very important strategic base for the subsequent operations into the Marshalls, Marianas, and Philippines, possibly delaying the end of the war by years. The 3rd strike was urged by Capt. Genda but Nagumo turned him down.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-03/news/wr-739_1_pearl-harbor
No... it was just acting
> "Dad was tough but not tyrannical," Smith told Essence. "He kept me in line. He'd get this look that said, 'One more step, Will, and it'll get ugly.' He was an independent businessman-he set up refrigeration in supermarkets-and he always provided for us. He's a steady and positive figure in my life
Ralph fucking Nader was actually the one that founded the EPA. The most we can say about Nixon is he didn't fight it. It's too bad there are zero liberals like Nader in Congress anymore.
> The work of this lawyer and irrepressible gadfly of the powers that be, which began in the mid-1960s, has led to the passage of numerous consumer-protection laws in such areas as automobiles, mining, insurance, gas pipelines, and meatpacking, as well as the creation of government agencies such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the environmental protection agency, and the consumer product safety commission. Nader himself has founded many well-known consumer advocacy groups, including the Public Interest Research Group, the Clean Water Action Project, the Center for Auto Safety, and the Project on Corporate Responsibility. His goal in these efforts, he has said, is "nothing less than the qualitative reform of the industrial revolution."
For me personally it was probably the announcement of "The Lord of the Rings."
I don't know if any of us have ever seen anything like what the scene probably was for "Gone With the Wind" however. According to enyclopedia.com over one million people came to Atlanta for the premiere, which included three days of parades and celebrations. Keep in mind the US population at the time was half what it is now.
Just because a government exists does not mean we don't live under capitalism. 90% of the GDP of the United States comes from the private sector (source). Non-profits only make up about 5% of the GDP (source). Therefore, about 85% of the US economy is private, for-profit business. In other words, the US is overwhelmingly a capitalist nation.
Regardless, the government has everything to do with capitalism. Even though the government doesn't much trade and industry under capitalism, it still is crucial to the capitalist system because it enforces legal rights to private property. Without the government, private property rights would not be enforced, and therefore private property would not really exist, at least not in the way it does now.
Furthermore, in democratic government that have privately-funded elections are greatly influenced by private business. Through private campaign contributions and promises of sinecures once they retire from public service, democratic politicians are incentivized to act in ways which please private business if those politicians want to be reelected. Even ignoring politicians' own incentives, private business is incentivized to support, through campaign contributions, politicians whose policies align with their interests. This effects how a nation behaves, including in the international arena. Politicians are incentivized to go to war if business interests, especially those that benefit from access to natural resources and open foreign markets, can profit from war, and those business are incentivized to support warmongering politicians. As such, private business, and therefore capitalism, is partially responsible for the mess that currently exists in the Middle East, including Syria.
" Police brutality is the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose."
Tell me that man needed to sucker punch a drunk girl who was lightly slapping him about his head in order to carry out his lawful police purpose. Tell me it was imperative to his mission that he hit her in the jaw so hard that she fell unconscious.
Basically, those were not "real", historical Russian names, but made up ones that sound "Russian". They weren't very frequent but there are a few people who were named like that.
Some examples:
Vladilena - Vladimir Iliych Lenin
Istalina - Iosiph Stalin
Elina, a fairly popular Russian name, in fact, is an abbreviation of <strong>El</strong>ektrifikacia and <strong>In</strong>dustrializaci*a*
Renat - Revolutsia, Nauka i Trud - Revolution, Science, Labor
Or named after some important cultural events that communism cherished, like Olympics. There are people named Olympics - Olympiada
There were people of African origin when America was just a few small colonies on the east coast. We didn't adopt slavery after kicking the British out.
Here's a bit about them.. There was little record keeping that survived to today, but they were often classified similarly to European indentured servants.
However, as the article gets into, many speculate they were living in de facto slavery. For example, indentured servants were listed with date of freedom, which was conspicuously missing from black servants.
> Some writers believe that to the extent that knowledge is aligned with reality, it approximates objective truth; anything less represents a social construct. According to this thinking, even morality is a social construct. However, others believe that all knowledge is social construction.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Social_constructionism.aspx
Science done well is knowledge, beliefs that come from science done poorly are a social construct.
Two words, amoral familism.
edit: if you have a somehow good Italian, this is a more comprehensive article on Wiki.
> People keep throwing around "social construct" and they don't even understand what that means...
absolutely. If you were to ask one of them to explain what they mean, they couldn't. I think we often mistakenly build arguments like this "Biological sex can't be a social construct because it's a scientific fact" but in reality, it has no effect if those same people don't learn the definition of social construct as well.
Here is the encyclopedia.com page for any lurkers: http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-and-social-reform/sociology-general-terms-and-concepts/social-3
> forcibly relocate
this is a way of wiping them out... the Dawes Act also provided for "the forced education of Indian children in off-reservation boarding schools and the suppression of Native religions, languages, and cultural practices." Source
Portuguese and Spanish are both Romanic languages (they originate from ancient Latin), and that's why the area in America (North and South) that speaks Spanish and Portuguese is called "Latin America", and people who originate from that area are called "Latin Americans", or short, Latinos.
I'm not sure if there's a source saying that everyone was always drugged up, but there are studies indicating that in 1971 approximately half of enlisted men tried opiates and of those, half developed increased tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. This summarizes a lot of it, and the guy who wrote it conducted several of the studies in the 1970s on it.
Drug Use in Vietnam
Probably. We've got records of ancient Babylonians and Egyptians colouring their hair, and apparently the romans had a couple of recipe for permanent dyes which are only slightly horrifying.
"Analyzing hair samples has revealed that the Greeks and Romans used permanent black hair dye thousands of years ago. They mixed substances that we know today as lead oxide and calcium hydroxide to create a lead sulfide nanoparticle, which forms when the chemicals interact with sulfur linkages in keratin, a protein in hair. When the direct application of lead proved too toxic, the Romans changed their black dye formula to one made by fermenting leeches for two months in a lead vessel."
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/hair-dye-a-history/383934/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_coloring
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Hair_Coloring.aspx
(Seriously though, finding an exhaustive source on this is hard. I'm on the second page of google results already and I fear going any deeper.)
Well, we didn't suffer the massive casualties from WWII that other countries did.
"The British system is probably the most instructive example for Americans to evaluate because of the similarities in economy and government structure between the two nations. According to the NHS Web site, the system “was set up on the 5th July 1948 to provide healthcare for all citizens, based on need, not the ability to pay” (National Health Service 2007). Originally conceived as a response to the massive casualties of World War II (1939–1945), the system survives and continues to evolve in the early twenty-first century."
I'm not sure who told you this. There are tons of seemingly reputable sources all over the internet discussing Hylidae and their a/estivation.
Actually, this was probably the other way around.
Squanto did teach the colonists about using fish as fertilizer. But chances are pretty good he picked up the trick in Europe.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/north-american-indigenous-peoples-biographies/squanto
Using fish as fertilizer was not a common practice among the Wampanoag. But it was common in the coastal regions on England where Squanto had spent time after being rescued from slavery in Spain.
>Can you prove this poster was made by a man and not a woman?
Here's a short summary about the male artist:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/election-day
That's just factually wrong. LBJ's net worth was estimated at $98 million. He ranks in the top six for Presidents and wealth.
He was more deft at portraying the "common man" than most Presidents but still ranks very high in actual wealth. If you're going to make assertions to fit your narrative, have the facts to back it up.
Kennedy strongly advocated for the poor:
In the presidential election campaign of 1960, John F. Kennedy promised a “war against poverty and degradation” and “an economic drive on poverty” to address the high and persistent unemployment of the 1957–1958 and 1959–1960 recessions. Source.
Kennedy promised a war on poverty in the 1960 election, as a pillar of the New Frontier. Johnson was able to push it through with the 1964 landslide and more than 2/3 Democratic majorities in each chamber. You can't just pass things into law because you say you support them as President. A major problem with the Sanders' supporters' logic.
I'm sure gaters will seize on this as an example of SJWs supporting "no bad tactics, only bad targets" (even though no one ever actually said that), but I do sometimes struggle with defining the difference between things like the Montgomery bus boycott or the "Don't buy where you can't work" campaigns and the kinds of things that GG does. I think the blockade aspect to their ops is one interesting way to look at it.
Ultimately, for me, one of the key differences is that both of those civil rights campaigns were (a) actual boycotts, not blockades, and (b) targeted actions that were immoral and discriminatory. They didn't focus on what people thought, but on what they did.
What GG is doing is exactly what they accuse SJWs of -- trying to punish wrong-think.
Just going by Wikipedia…
> Statistically, the VOC eclipsed all of its rivals in the Asia trade. Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882,412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English (later British) East India Company, the VOC's nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2,690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.
This page has some good info as well.
>1. All the newly weds people of Libya used to get about 50,000 dollars from Government to lead a very happy life.
>2. Home is the basic right of every citizen of Libya.
>3. There was no electricity bill in Libiya. Electricity was free in Libya.
>4. No interest loan for the people of Libya according to Law. Gaddafi was against interest since interest is forbidden in Islam.
>5. Gaddafi has increased the literacy rate from 25% to 83%. Education expenses in Government universities are free in Libya.
>6. Medical expenses in Government hospitals was free in Libya.
>7. The price of the patrol was 0.14 cents in Libya. Yes we all know Libya has got good petroleum resources. But the price seems to be too low. Isn't it?
>8. When Libyan citizen wants to buy a car, Government used to subsidized 50% of the price of the car. 50%? sounds great!
>9. A huge bread used to cost only 15 cents in Libya.
>10. The GDP per capita of Libya is very high. Over 15,000 us dollars. Purchasing power was very high compare to the GDP.
>11. The economy of Libya was improving rapidly. In 2010 it had 10% growth. It has not external debts. It also has the reserves amount of 150+ billion dollars.
>12. Unemployment fees were given from the government until the person finds a Job.
>13. A Libyan mother used to get 5000 us dollars for giving birth a child.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Libya.aspx
Generally in Islam, when a person dies, people don't talk about the bad things a person did, they remember the person by his/her good actions in life, which would explain why all those arabic comments called him a good person.
There were diseases in the Americas, you're right. But diseases that evolved in Africa/Asia/Europe were much more deadly - roughly 90% of all Native Americans died to disease when the Europeans came over. http://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/impact-european-diseases-native-americans
>t of the colonies regulated the terms of indentured service, but the treatment of individual servants differed widely. Some were mistreated; others lived as members of a family. It was commonly required that they be provided with clothing, a gun, and a small tract of land upon which to establish themselves after their service ended. These requirements applied especially to those who were unwilling servants. There was no permanent stigma attached to indentured servitude, and the families of such persons merged readily with the total population. Children born to parents serving their indenture were free. Terms of an indenture were enforceable in the courts
http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/indentured-servants
How about the opposite. Ship coming to harbor expecting a fight, except the port hadn't been told about the war.
Spanish American War Capture of Guam:
>Glass's fleet arrived at Guam the morning of June 20. The Americans expected to find Spain ready to fight at the capital of Agaña and the harbor of San Luis D'Apra. Instead, Agaña was undefended and the forts at San Luis D'Apra were abandoned. When the fleet sailed into harbor and fired a few shots, Spain sent the port captain on a boat to speak with the Americans.
The Spaniard told Captain Glass that Guam did not know Spain was at war. Glass replied that the captain and his men were now prisoners-of-war and asked them to return to port to request a surrender by Guam's governor, Lieutenant Colonel Juan Marina.
Marina surrendered the next day because Guam lacked any ability to defend itself. Glass's expedition raised the American flag over Fort Santa Cruz
It really depends on the specific year, from what I can tell.
In World War II, desertion rates reached 6.3 percent of the armed forces in 1944, and during the American reverses at the Battle of the Bulge, the army executed one American soldier, Private Ernie Slovik, for desertion in the face of the enemy as an example to other troops. Desertion rates dropped to 4.5 percent in 1945. During the Korean War, the use of short‐term service and the rotation system helped keep desertion rates down to 1.4 percent of the armed forces in fiscal year (FY) 1951 and to 2.2 percent or 31,041 in FY 1953.
The divisive Vietnam War generated the highest percentage of wartime desertion since the Civil War. From 13,177 cases—or 1.6 percent of the armed forces—in FY 1965, the annual desertion statistics mounted to 2.9 percent in FY 1968, 4.2 percent in FY 1969, 5.2 percent in FY 1970, and 7.4 percent (79,027 incidents of desertion) in FY 1971. Like the draft resisters from this same war, many deserters sought sanctuary in Canada, Mexico, or Sweden. In 1974, the Defense Department reported that between 1 July 1966 and 31 December 1973, there had been 503,926 incidents of desertion in all services during the Vietnam War.
Jesuit school made me a Marxist, conrad
EDIT: as in, they taught me
EDIT 2: Gotta rep for the Jesuit comrades, y'all. Liberation Theology can be so lit. http://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/christianity/roman-catholic-and-orthodox-churches-general-terms-and-20
Well I mean the US did provide the Lend Lease Act. According to this online encyclopedia:"Wartime estimates, including the value of services and technological transfers, came to between $43 and $50 billion (1945 dollars) of aid to America's wartime allies. Some $8 billion of "reverse" lend-lease—mainly technology transfers and raw materials from the British and French empires—came back to the United States."
Providing half of the forces on D-Day, including airborne operations. Helping invade Italy. Bombing important routes and factories (civilians too, which wasn't the greatest, but pretty much everyone did it).
The 400,000+ US soldiers lost over the course of WW2. More than Britain or France if you're going to compare numbers.
Then the Marshall Plan
Also helping out with the Berlin Airlift.
etc.
There's no point in hating the US or hating on Europe. The two have shared long histories.
The Medes' capital was not Amedi, some think it was at Ectabana but even that is controversial (source)
Not only were the Medes decisively not a Kurdish tribe, it's controversial they're even related
Great pic, but the title contains a lot of misinformation.
That the mercenary Wallenstein ordered the execution of cats and dogs whenever he took over a village because he hated the noises they made. Sauce
What source are you using? I don't think thats right as a universal statement.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/forgery_(law).aspx
I'd say it is forgery by definition, but isn't in all jurisdictions by their legal codes.
wikipedia: > Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive for the sake of altering the public perception, or to earn profit by selling the forged item.
There is historical reference to give us some insight: The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. During the violence surrounding Prohibition, the NFA was originally written to restrict access to all firearms, pistols included, through a tax that would have to be paid. This was later changed to be Short Barreled Rifles (SBRs), Short Barreled Shotguns (SBS), Suppressors, and "Any other Weapons" (AOW) and stands to this day. If memory serves me correctly, there were discussions to flat-out ban on all guns by the Attorney General at the time (Homer Stille Cummings), but was later dropped when the NFA was passed in 1934.
What I am saying is that an outright ban on all guns was proposed, but later changed because it was considered to run afoul of the 2nd Amendment, which suggests it was viewed as an individual right, even back in 1934.
Prometheus also created mankind from clay and water. Therefore, Greek mythology is true. The dozens of other creation myths that exist throughout mankind's history must also be true. Unfortunately, Islam does not hold creative license over the 'man from clay' theme. Many other civilisations got there long before Islam. I dare say, that the author/s of the Quran were aware of these myths too.
I don't which sources you but here are three:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/swastika
http://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/art-and-architecture/architecture/swastikas
Not really. It is pretty basic as long as you have thought about it for a minute. No one is afraid to have a discussion about it, but instead can generally understood that A&M has no reason or need to host this, especially with the leader issuing veiled threats and alluding to the Charleston incident.
If they want to gather in the middle of nowhere, go for it. If they are intentionally trying to disrupt A&Ms campus, as it seems they desire to with their "Today Charleston" shit, then A&M is allowed to tell them to fuck off.
They are not being held to a crime or being told it is illegal to speak there, they are being told the university is not willing to let them on campus. Just because it is a public university does not mean the university has to let anyone on campus.
"The Supreme Court affirmed this tenet in a 1983 case, ruling that “the First Amendment does not guarantee access to property simply because it is owned or controlled by the government,” allowing rules and restrictions."
This is a powerful intro: >>If innovations in housework helped free women to enter the labor force in the 1960s and 1970s, could innovations in leisure — like League of Legends — be taking men out of the labor force today?
but I think a little misleading. Technology didn't usher women into the workforce nearly as much as an absence of men in the mid 1940s due to war, and the feminist movement of the 1960s/70s. Brand new appliances appeared, such as air conditioners, tumble dryers, freezers, and dishwashers, and became widely available in the 1950s source Washing machines and vacuums were even in use before that so I'm not sure what specific tech the article is referencing...
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> who cares?
I'd like to think every one of these entities/people cares.
Though a majority of those listed lean Democrat, Marc Anderssen and Peter Thiel are sort of right leaning, particularly Thiel. I'm not sure how reddit removing the_donald will affect this, but I'm pretty sure he wants no such thing to happen. Or maybe he does. Maybe he doesn't care. Who knows. Regardless, Advance Publications has always been "hands off" editorially (so if they have a relationship with reddit, it isn't editorial-control in nature).
That might be more based on English law though. The United States Constitution states.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted."
Whatever the fuck that means.
Again, I don't know what kind of sources you're looking for but here is something:
"In recent years, correctional interventions have, at times, become more punitive and have sought to achieve recidivism by deterring offenders rather than by changing them. These intervention strategies, for example, have involved the intensive supervision of probationers and parolees, the electronic monitoring of offenders in the community, boot camps for those beginning a life in crime, and "scared straight" programs for juveniles. After considerable research, the evidence is clear: these deterrence-oriented programs do not work to reduce recidivism (Cullen and Gendreau; Cullen et al., 1996; Petersilia and Turner).
In contrast, it is now apparent that rehabilitation programs generally reduce recidivism and, when conducted according to the "principles of effective treatment" (Gendreau), cut reoffending substantially (Andrews and Bonta; Cullen and Gendreau; Lipsey and Wilson; Lurigio)."
Here's a copy-pasta of a comment go another post that will fit in here I think, the Timurid empire didn't last past his death but the impacts were felt for centuries. Also this post doesn't cover the cultural impact but is fascinating none the less.
In my opinion, the most dramatic and extremely saddening deaths was not an individual but up to 17 million people by some estimates of the poor souls who fell to the last great Steppe conquerer Timur. He was known to the west as Timur the Lame, or Tamerlane, and he conquered a staggering amount of land, from the banks of the Volga in the north, Northern India in the south, Defeated the caliph in Baghdad and the caliph in Egypt laid down his arms. Timur had begun to advance on China with a great army when he died in his seventies. He can be arguably be said to have never lost a battle. And his trademark tower of skulls can be summed up by the example of the fall of Baghdad, June 1401, and really an example of any city, Christian, Pagan, or fellow Muslim, that opposed him; it was said his soldiers had enough decapitated heads to make 120 piles of skulls outside the city walls. The Christians of Georgia were ravaged no less than 6 times over the years. The man was vicious as fuck, and fellow Muslims fell to him as often as the infidel. I just finished a pretty decent biography of him titled Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conquerer of the World by Justin Marozzi. And if I might add, he accomplished all this despite receiving injuries to his right hip and shoulder while stealing cattle(goats, sheep?) in his youth. Sorry OP if this is not what you're looking for but if you read about him in more depth I think you'll find it's a fascinating read. Everyone he encountered met with a horrible end.
He got a black karate belt at age 10.
Today he has four black belts in martial arts and two in samurai swords.
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> Assorted memories from my childhood
> Absorbing energy from the wild woods
> Electronic combat Konami sign contract
> Chinese chalk killing cucarachas on contact
> Chicago, spray gun aficionado
> Efficient spitting bridging divisions isn't Chicano
> Who’s the Boss? If isn't Alyssa Milano
> Dudikoff, ninja mission into the Congo
> Polarize envy of the older guys
> Black obi, shinobi hittin' Kenno in the face with all my throwin' knives
> Sub-zero guiding, hiding, riding in the pack as well
> Sound village, Leaf village, wolf spirit, magic spells
> Dodging rain and catching hail
> Faces need samurais to catch the L
- Mural
His weight when entering the league is 201 pounds when entering the league, and only 180 when he first came to America when he was 20. But he actually gained 30 pounds after his rookie year. http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-23/sports/sp-12422_1_manute-bol
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2870300015.html
I don't know if he kept that weight. And I'd still doubt Bol Bol is over 200. This article says coaches believe that he is between 140-180 pounds. http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/sam-mellinger/article5352999.html
I'm not a redpiller, but that doesn't make any fucking sense. Having a Y chromosome doesn't make you a super special snowflake, in fact, it is really tiny and not as information dense as the X chromosome. The only purpose of the Y chromosome is to establish male specific traits. This is also very interesting.
>Since normally only one Y chromosome exists per cell, no pairing between X and Y occurs at meiosis, except at small regions. Normally, no crossing over occurs. Therefore, except for rare mutations that may occur during spermatogenesis, a son will inherit an identical copy of his father's Y chromosome, and this copy is also essentially identical to the Y chromosomes carried by all his paternal forefathers, across the generations.
Well this is actually from the Apple dictionary, which seems to have sourced that definition from The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English.
It is most likely referring to Tottenham, mostly I think due to the use of "second half" which seems more likely for soccer.
Based on the definition of 'education', yes it does instantly mean that you're better educated "by simply having a bachelor's degree".
"The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, esp. at a school or university" The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English, 2009
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/National_Organization_for_Women.aspx
"In the 1990s, (NOW) helped secure the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA; 1994) that resulted in the institution of the Violence Against Women Office in the Justice Department. The VAWA and the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (1984) have also resulted in federal funding for women and family victims of violence. In 2000, NOW began a campaign to extend the VAWA to include funding to train police, law enforcement, and court personnel to better handle issues of violence against women."
Regardless of how you personally feel about NOW, I'm pretty sure they are the de facto 'feminist' voice with regards to political movement.
The revolution was named after the French word "revolte", "to transform", which is derived from Latin "revolte" meaning "to revolve".
Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/France/French_Revolution#Revolution
No, they aren't. Let me cite:
"The Barbary pirates were mostly <em>Berbers</em>, <em>Arabs</em>, and other <em>Muslims</em> [...] They [Barbary States] included Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli."
Armenians are Christians and they don't live in the Mediterranean Sea. Where the hell did you even get the idea that muslims from north Africa are in any way connected to Armenians?
While German Shepherds (and Belgian Malinois) tend to be the most popular police K9 overall, Labs and Goldens seem to be the preferred breed when it comes to bomb/narcotic detection which is what most airport dogs are (I would think).
I agree with the sentiment, but to be fair...
I've met thousands and thousands of people in my life. I'm social, extroverted, and sell things / run partnerships for a living... And I'm realizing that I have actually never met a little person before.
Apparently "people afflicted with short stature" are 1.5% of the US population, but apparently something like 70% of cases are able to get hormone therapy as children to "grow" to average proportions, so there's no telling how many of the 5M people in the US with dwarfism are under the 4'10" height maximum to be classified as a little person.
Anyway, I just wanted to comment that while I agree with your sentiment, it would feel... out of place if more and more dwarves were cast as main characters. I.e., if there are 5-10 main characters in any given movie, it would be, by the numbers, unlikely that any given one of them would be a little person, so it would actually pull me out of the movie.
However, I do agree that not every role they perform should be the "dwarf" role; in fact, the numbers demand that in 1.5% of movies, there should be a main character with dwarfism as a totally normal thing... But again, a large number of people classified with dwarfism have gotten hormone therapy, so there's really no telling what the true representation % should be.
Just my take.
I'm really happy you're interested! It's a part of Latvian cult of ancestors, commonly referred to as "veļu mielasts" (feast of veļi). Found a good bit of information in Latvian, here's a translated summary of the 4 stages:
Preparation. In the time of Veļi (September 29th - November 10th) people prepare food for the feast. It usually consists of bread, meat and mead. The table is set in a barn, bath house or room.
The summoning of Veļi. When the table is set and candles are burning, the master of the house invites veļi to feast by calling their names and thanking for their good deeds, help and protection.
The feast. This part varies by region and time period. Sometimes the whole household participates, sometimes only the master.
The dispelling. After the feast is done, Veļi must be chased back to their world. It can be done by chanting and marking room corners with an "x", pouring soil from the graveyard on the floor, sweeping it up and returning it back to the graveyard.
here are some more sources in English:
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/veli.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3424500148/ancestors-baltic-cult-ancestors.html
With regard to the hyperventilating you are offering terrible, uneducated advice that would most likely work against you in the given situation. Here is why.
hyperventilation: The ventilation of the lungs is the volume of air breathed in (and out) per minute. Hyperventilation means that this volume is excessive, such that carbon dioxide is lost from the lungs at a greater rate than it is being produced by metabolism in the body...
take a few extra deep breaths: in the lung alveoli the concentration of oxygen is immediately increased, and that of carbon dioxide decreased. This cannot load more oxygen into the blood, because the oxygen concentration in the lungs was already sufficient to saturate the oxygen-carrying capacity of its haemoglobin. However, what this over-breathing can and does do, very readily, is to remove more carbon dioxide.
The ‘wash-out’ of carbon dioxide progresses, from the lungs, and hence from the blood, and from the body tissues including, importantly, the brain. Carbon dioxide is a crucial variable in acid–base homeostasis; its reduction shifts the body fluids towards greater alkalinity (increased pH) and this has further knock-on effects. For one thing, it tends to cause constriction of some blood vessels, particularly those in the brain, reducing its blood supply and therefore its oxygen supply. So, in what might seem the midst of plenty when an excess of air is being shifted in and out of the lungs, the brain can actually be short of oxygen. It is for this reason that persistent, vigorous over-breathing soon makes us feel faint and dizzy.
I think auto correct got me on this one. It is dyskinesia. It is caused by long term treatment of psychotherapy drugs, basically involuntary muscle movements or spasms. Here is a good link (I think) I found in the first google search:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/anatomy-and-physiology/anatomy-and-physiology/dyskinesia
There are many different types, but the most common is tardive. Don't self diagnose though. If you are experiencing any type of tremors, repetitive movements, or shaking, tell a doctor IMMEDIATELY because it is easier to treat. I take medication for it and am fine.
And thank-you, to everyone for being so kind. I can't speak for all schizophrenics, but it is easy for people to associate it with some kind of stigma or stereotypes, and I think harder to tell people about because of it. I don't want anyone to hide who they are, but it seems to be hard to explain and what you can say to others who have questions and still maintain a sense of privacy. I am intensely private. Don't feel like you are in a position where you must explain private things to excuse certain tendencies or behaviors. Don't give up on life, and believe you can have a normal one, no matter what.
I have read it, that doesn't stop you from being objectively wrong. Here are actual sources of survival rates in the gulag:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Gulag_mortality_rate_1934_1953.PNG
Or, at its worst, a death rate of 176 out of 1,000 (17.6%)
vs
or approximately 2% dying daily. In total sources say about 3.3 million soviets died in German captivity out of about 5.7 million that were in captivity, making up more than 50%. Get out of here with your bullshit
It's also worth mentioning that even though less than 50% of the population actually owned slaves, being able to own a slave was a status symbol in many southern states. Further, about 20% of all slaves in the Southern states weren't owned by their masters, but rented out to the less wealthy to perform smaller-scale manual labour tasks—from agriculture to mining to housework. That meant that slavery just offered even more of a return on investment (i.e. if you couldn't put slaves you owned to work to extract value from them that way, you could just rent them out for money instead).
The instituation was completely baked into the south's economy and culture.
Yeah use your brains you fucking idiots my god. I was also a prison guard for a few years so I know what I'm talking about I don't just talk out my ass like most people on here! You can hang yourself by sitting or kneeling http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-government/hanging
> Medical science in 1805 is not the same as medical science in 2017.
Excellent medical science was performed even prior to 1805 - believe it or not.
One example: "William Harvey (1578-1657) is recognized as the man who discovered and published the first accurate description of the human circulatory system, based on his many years of experiments and observations as a scientist and physician. Harvey had accumulated a mass of irrefutable experimental evidence in support of his dramatic new view, knowing that a tremendous amount of criticism and disbelief would be mounted against his groundbreaking, revolutionary theory of the physiology of blood circulation. Although the majority of the physicians and scientists of his day refused to accept his research, Harvey's discovery and written description of the true functioning of the heart and circulatory system remains as one of the landmark medical textbooks and the foundation of modern physiology."
Newton and Galilleo might have a bone to pick with you as well if you're throwing out all science done prior to 2017.
Simply stating "Back then people were idiots" isn't a substantive critique. Not least as there are idiots out, about, and publishing in science journals today.....but that's another issue.
Japan's "democracy" is still heavily ruled by the WWII era military junta families though.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/world/asia/15japan.html?referer=
Even Abe himself was born into a very well connected family with heavy ties to the WWII era ruling groups.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Shinzo_Abe.aspx
> Shinzo Abe was born in Nagato Japan, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, on September 21, 1954. His family was immersed in Japanese politics on both its paternal and maternal sides. His maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was a key military leader during World War II, serving as part of General Hideki Tojo's circle of advisers. Kishi was an American prisoner of war for three years but was released in 1948 and later favored a strongly pro-American foreign policy even as he attempted to rebuild the Japanese military. He was Japan's prime minister from 1957 to 1960. One observer, at least, detected traces of the grandfather's attitudes in the grandson. “Abe's beliefs and values are similar to Kishi's,” Japanese Diet (legislature) member Katsuei Hirasawa told Bryan Walsh of Time. “He's inherited his grandfather's political DNA.”
>On his father's side, too, Abe's family tree was filled with well-liked politicians. His father's father, Kan Abe, served in Japan's House of Representatives, and his father, Shintaro Abe, was the country's minister of foreign affairs from 1982 to 1986 and was often mentioned as a potential prime minister himself. Shinzo Abe was more distantly related to another Japanese prime minister, Eisuke Sato, who served from 1964 to 1972 and was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
So taking into account the fact that the ruling class remained relatively untouched, as in comparison with Iraq where we created a literal power vacuum, it should come as no surprise Japan and Iraq ended up as they did.
OK, but this is Larisa Latynina, who was born in 1934 and graduated high school in 1953. So unless she fooled everyone by graduating high school at age 7 and looking like a 17 or 18 year old at the time, she's not a Boomer.
You can fool people into thinking a gymnast is a little older than they look, but you can't really push it that far.
Also, when she competed in the world championships in 1958, she was 4 months pregnant. If she were a boomer, that would mean she got pregnant at age 11 or 12. Not biologically impossible, but pretty far fetched.
Plus she won the national schools gymnastics championship in about 1950. When nominally 16. If she were a Boomer faking her age, she would have won that high school championship at age 4.
Major Conflicts
1809–1826 — Wars for Latin American Independence
1812–1815 — War of 1812: United States versus Britain
1821–1829 — Greek War for Independence
1822–1831 — First Burmese War: Britain versus Ashanti people (of modern Ghana)
1824–1826 — First Burmese War: Britain versus Burma
1826–1828 — Russo-Persian War
1828–1829 — Russo-Turkish War
1830–1847 — French conquest of Algeria
1831–1832 — Black Hawk War: United States versus the Sac and Fox tribes
1832–1833 — Turko-Egyptian War
1834–1839 — Carlist Wars: Spain versus the forces of the pretender Don Carlos
1835–1842 — Seminole War: United States versus the Seminole tribe
The site also includes dozens of events such as the belgian revolt.
>"At this time, London would have included a whole host of people of color throughout the street."
Speaking of which, I noticed an interesting thing. The game is set in 1868, the year Karl Marx's second daughter Laura married Paul Lafargue, a Cuban-French socialist who considered himself black.
If you want the history of International Civil Aviation affairs check this out http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2586700056.html
From what I've gathered (don't quote me) there have been numerous attempts at standardization throughout history, but due to war and innovation those attempts failed. Until late WWII, international aviation was mostly unregulated and cutthroat. However, after The Chicago Conference (arguably the first real conference) allies created standardized rules for economics, languages (largest allies were mostly english speaking), and even flight operations. The allies won, so those rules were adopted.
He was a track and field champ and had a crazy high jump.
He also got offered to fight Ali.
Edit: Here's pretty much everything about him.
You should know that rationalwiki is not a reliable source of information.
Referring someone to NIH or an Encyclopedia would be far better options.
Well, hey, at least organizing with your coworkers for the purposes of increasing your wages no longer leads to you being sentenced for criminal conspiracy. Progress, right?