Chronicles of the Past
Who owns Hainan island? the People’s Republic of China Hainan, separated by the 20 km (12 mi) wide Qiongzhou Strait from the Leizhou Peninsula of Guangdong, is the largest island administered by the People’s Republic of China and the 42nd largest in the world. What is the history of Hainan? Hainan was formally incorporated into …
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Where does draconian law come from? Did you know? Draconian comes from Draco, the name of a 7th-century B.C. Athenian legislator who created a written code of law. Draco’s code was intended to clarify existing laws, but its severity is what made it really memorable. What was significant about Draco’s code of law? The Draconian …
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In 1931, Coca-Cola was the first company that executed a marketing campaign for Christmas with Santa. Coca-Cola commissioned Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to create the Santa Claus image for their ads. What was the first company that used Santa Claus in advertising question? Coca-Cola was the first company to use the modem Santa in advertising …
What is the Babylonian accession year? The time from accession to the first New Year’s Day is the accession year. This system was standard in Babylonia at the time of Cyrus’ conquest in 539 B.C.E. ‘ What is an ascension year? The Ascension Year is the year the queens turn sixteen. It marks the start …
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How many weeks does Parliament sit UK? 15 days in the short 2019 session. 349 days in the long 2017-19 session. When did Parliament start ruling England? The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. …
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Why is attacking a trench so difficult? This area is not protected from the weapons of either side, and is dangerous to walk through. It is difficult to force the enemy to retreat, because it is too dangerous to move forward over no-man’s land towards the enemy. What was the main problem with trench warfare? …
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Because the US didn’t push into North Vietnam as it had in North Korea where it was threatening China’s border. Why didn’t China intervene in Vietnam? China militarily supported North Vietnam by fighting South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War. However, with the failure of the North Vietnamese and Chinese negotiations in …
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What historically were the purposes of maps? Historians use historical maps for several purposes: As tools for reconstructing the past, to the extent that maps provide records of features, landscape, cities, and places that may not exist any more or that exist in dramatically transformed form. As records of certain historical processes and relationships. What …
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Why was the port of Catoosa built? The delegates convinced Tulsa business leaders that a port would stimulate business. Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce leaders and asked Early Cass, of the water resources committee, to chair a port authority committee. What does the port of Catoosa do? It is a fully equipped multi-modal transportation center …
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At the time of the Industrial Revolution (in Europe), most people of Saudi Arabia were still nomadic. People who are nomads are not likely to build factories to “industrialize.” Did the Middle East industrialize? Oil industrialization in the Middle East was made possible through the building of novel forms of financial, legal, techno-scientific, and social …
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