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Pushed into coastal waters in wartime during the Tang Dynasty, these boat dwellers weren't allowed to set foot on land until the second half of the 20th century.
but so did wars. In some countries witch hunts rooting out the unknown cause of the plague resulted in minority groups being massacred,
or deaths among the workforce melded into the dramatic effects of the war. The HIV/Aids epidemic,
 Welcome to the first TED event at Sana'a, capital of Yemen, the poorest country in the middle East and a nation at the heart of the covert US war on Al Qaeda.
the poorest country in the middle East and a nation at the heart of the covert US war on Al Qaeda.
and the War of the Pacific kicked off between the guano-and saltpetre-rich nations of Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
environmentalists and demographers predicting humanity's collapse through famine, wars and epidemics, if we don't check our population.
but because of wars, or crops already hit by climate change, or being too poor to afford food
that after the war this"bachelor  who"lived alone  oe which many Daily mail readers of the time would have taken correctly to imply he was homosexual oe was subjected to persecution,
A religious war is raging between alarmists and skeptics, and it threatens to consume levelheaded climatologists.
according to the book The Paypal Wars. oeit will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people.
when new military facilities and war plants had to be built yesterday. WORLD WAR II made Webb rich.
when new military facilities and war plants had to be built yesterday. Article continues below WORLD WAR II made Webb rich.
and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.
The Coming Transparency Wars Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways
When the Tomato Wars come to your town, the best people to have on your side are the ones who don t mind getting a little dirty...
and after the war, they turned their sights on the consumer market. But housewives buying products for their families were more discerning than soldiers,
Remember the Cola Wars? Get ready for the Bottle Wars. Pepsico Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material,
which it says bests the technology of competitor Coca-cola and reduces its potential carbon footprint.
a Greek war veteran, came to the United states in 1943 for treatment of a combat-mangled arm.
In Charles City, Va.,one still-active family business had marked 160 years by the start of the Revolutionary War.
And we won t find a solution for war. But there is great value in the struggle.
Smurfs,#oestar Wars#toys, Rube Goldberg devices. The next things you notice are the desks: row after row after row,
But after the war, it more or less vanished from the planet, for reasons unknown. Until Mason needed a way to power his flamethrowers, that is.
The myth was started by two feuding paleontologists during the Bone Wars, 130 years ago. SOURCE:
This contract was part of Reagan s#oestar Wars#missile defense system. Whenever a missile was launched, the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.
photographing dioramas, antique dollhouse furniture displays, historic doll history/display, miniature war machines, trains, etc.
In addition to civilization ending disastersnuclear war, asteroid or comet strike, biblical floods, zombiesthe world s 1, 400 genebanks and their precious seed stores are susceptible to war, poor management,
The doomsday vault is said to be impervious to nuclear war or asteroid strike, and its location on a remote island in a rich, stable European country adds security.
War and Peace. "</</p><p></p><p>The adult skeleton has 206 bones. The smallest is the stapes or stirrup the innermost of three bones in the middle ear;
Today Babylon is a site in peril a place impacted by modern-day wars and in need of extensive conservation and archaeological work.
Wars with Assyria and Elam The period from roughly 1200 to 600 B c. would be a rocky one for Babylon one filled with many wars
A war with Assyria resulted in a Babylonian king being led to Ashur in chains while one with Elam led to the statue of Marduk being stolen yet again.
It would take a war waged by a king named Nabopolassar (allied with an Iranian people called the Medians) to free Babylon
During the second Iraq war Babylon became the site of a military camp used by the Americans the remains
War Zone Sad experience is teaching that some old tornado safety tricks aren't as effective as hoped particularly
During the war The british Royal air force developed a new type of radar technology that helped pilots shoot down German enemy planes at night according to Smithsonian Magazine.
But in order to keep the new technology a secret the government said carrots were behind the pilots'success. Advertisements during the war touted the benefits of carrots for nighttime vision including one that read Carrots keep you healthy
and because battle wounds on the bones matched accounts of RICHARD III's death in the War of the roses.</
Wisdom and her young chick inhabit Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) which is famous for its Laysan albatross population.</
In 2007 after the war officially ended the WCS's elephant count was down to 2700.
Kazakhstan is also in the frontline of the war on drugs it borders Afghanistan and is in the process of securing stretches of its border with Uzbekistan by building an 8-foot-high (2. 5-meter-high wire fence.
The art of avian war With cash earmarked for murrelets from offshore-oil-spill restoration funds the parks have the rare ability to fund research studies
'In the film's trailer where some disturbing images are matched to beautiful prose Mcarthur says she feels like a war photographer
because society is really waging a war against other animals as we wantonly exploit them in myriad ways.
and irradiated so that militaries can find more efficient ways to kill other human beings in the wars in
We need to stop ignoring nature and end the widespread and heartless war on other animals now.
Also during the war when dyes from Europe became difficult to obtain he helped the American textile industry by developing more than 30 colors of dye from Alabama soils.
After the War George added A w to his name to honor Booker T. Washington. Carver continued to experiment with peanut products
USDA's Secret War on Wildlife highlights the wanton and brutal killing ways of an agency called Wildlife Services
The secret war on wildlife refers to and results from the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA)' s Wildlife Services'wanton assault on numerous species of animals.
and expose the government's secret war on wildlife for what it really is: A repugnant uncontrolled and brutal attack on a plethora of different species. EXPOSED is one of the most disturbing films
and unrelenting war on wildlife that will be even more violent and irreversible than it is now.
Sparta reached the height of its power in 404 B c. after its victory against Athens in the second Peloponnesian war.
However within a few decades after a defeat against the Thebans at the Battle of leuctra the city found itself reduced to a oesecond-rate power a status from which it never recovered.
and some of it such as from Tyrtaeus reflects the development of the martial values that Sparta would become famous for there is also work that appears to reflect a society concerned with art rather than just war.
Here is a man who proves himself to be valiant in war...Translation by Richmond Lattimore from the book Greek Lyrics University of Chicago Press 1960) The presence of large numbers of slaves relieved Spartan men from manual labor and allowed Sparta to build a citizen
training system that prepared the city s children for the harshness of war. oeat seven a Spartan boy was taken from his mother
. and was repulsed by a mainly Athenian force at the Battle of marathon in 490 B c. The second invasion was launched by Xerxes in 480 B c. the Persians crossing the Hellespont (the narrow strait between the Aegean
. when shockingly 120 Spartans surrendered. oenothing that happened in the war surprised the Hellenes so much as this.
While the Athenians had the naval advantage throughout much of the war the situation changed
Although an ally of Sparta during the long Peloponnesian war Thebes had become the lodestar of resistance
and their excellent horses much exercised in recent wars quickly routed the Spartan cavalry and drove them back into the phalanx confusing its order.
because it was made from spoils taken in the Persian wars. In course of time they have altered it until it is as large and as splendid as it is now.
Drone Wars in America This article first appeared as It's Time To Worry About the New Chinese Bird flu in the column At the Edge by Jeff Nesbitâ on U s. News & World Report.
and by wars and some departed suddenly but for the most part they died of meer famine wrote George Percy one of the survivors in a report on the colony. oethere were never Englishman left in a foreign country in such misery as we were discovered in this new Virginia.
Now oeafter five years intestine war with the revengeful implacable Indians a firm peace (not again easily to be broken) hath been concluded lately...
The attack gave The english the excuse they needed to wage war against Opechancanough s people sparing only the children
This war was a take-no-quarters affair Kupperman writes. oein 1623 they invited Indian leaders to a peace parley where they served poisoned wine
and trade especially following the War of 1812 when canals were built and traveled by heavy steamships.
Wisdom and her young chick inhabit Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) which is famous for itsâ Laysan albatrossâ population.
and always survived to continue propagating her species. In 2011 sheâ survived the 5-foot (1. 5 meters) tsunamiâ the hit Midway after Japan's 9. 0-magnitude earthquake.
Between the palace and the town there are also buildings that housed the war and foreign affairs ministries residences for those not entitled to live in the palace stables and a kennel among other structures.
The Hall of Mirrors was flanked on its north side by the Salon of War which has art depicting the king s victory against a European coalition in a war that ran from 1688-1697 and on its south side by a Salon of Peace
which has art depicting the benefits of the forthcoming peace. Â The king had his throne in the oeapollo Salon
Fittingly the Treaty of Paris which formally ended the Revolutionary War was signed on Sept. 3 1783 at Versailles close to the palace in the nearby foreign affairs building.
Several decades later when King Louis Philippe (reign 1830-1848) was turning Versailles into a museum he would include a painting that depicts the siege of Yorktown a decisive victory in the Revolutionary War in which the Americans
Many of its furnishings were sold to help pay for the subsequent Revolutionary Wars. When Napoleon came to power he had created an apartment for himself in the Grand Trianon complete with a map room.
The Battles Gallery can still be seen today with its modern-day keepers noting that the gallery s art depicts every main French battle between the Battle of Tolbiac in A d. 496 and the Battle of wagram in 1809.
In 1871 after France had lost a war against Prussia Kaiser Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors adding an extra layer of humiliation to The french defeat.
when a series of huge wildfires led the federal government to declare war on wildfires through a program that now costs more than $2 billion a year.
The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments The use of poisonous gas and other chemical weapons was banned by the Geneva Protocol following World war i sometimes referred to as the chemists'war during
(which was used infamously by the Germans with devastating effect in the Second battle of ypres during WWI) to 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate sometimes called Agent 15 BZ or Buzz an incapacitating nerve agent that causes stupor confusion and hallucinations.
Drought deforestation war and climate change have all been suggested as potential causes of this. However it is important to note that other Maya cities such as that of Chichã n Itzã¡
The victims were often prisoners of war he notes. At the site of Chichã n Itzã¡
when these deities would be in favorable positions for a variety of activities such as holding ceremonies inaugurating kings starting trading expeditions or conducting wars.
A ruler successful in war could control more laborers and exact tribute on defeated enemies further increasing their economic might.
and filled with important nutrients that supplemented meals limited by wartime rationing. When the war was over
however many families turned away from kale turned-off by its taste texture and association with wartime privation.
Newer varieties of kale however are much better tasting that those commonly grown in the 1940s.
Vodka's popularity spread with Russian soldiers during the Napoleonic wars After the Russian revolution one vodka maker relocated to Paris
Even the Republican leadership in the U s. Congress which is still fighting a losing war on coal political narrative that fared poorly in the 2012 elections has decided that it's no longer productive to argue the science of manmade climate change.
Theft and murder of native peoples resulted in the Mariposa Indian War which ended in 1851.
and sustainability and is part of the series The War for Wildlife: Dispatches from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Poachers are escalating the global war on wildlife through advanced technologies and techniques. In Asia they are hacking into the signals from tigers'satellite collars to find
We are hopeful that this gesture shows that we can win the war against poaching
Ancient writers tended not to discuss Celtic artistic achievements but rather their reputation for fierceness in war.
One of the precepts they teach obviously to make them better for war has become common knowledge namely that their souls are eternal
In my periphery Brasti was using both hands in a downwards block to counter a thrust from a war-sword.
The 63-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom was spotted taking care of her newborn earlier this month on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service.
which claimed 2000 of her fellow adult albatrosses and about 110000 chicks in the Midway wildlife refuge an island habitat in the middle of the North Pacific.
Looking over the past 50 years of the war on smoking the report authors warned that the disease risks from smoking by women have risen sharply
since the translation of the results of scientific studies into public health and policy actions and the salt debate#has become for some a salt war#.
#The progression of this debate into a war resembles past and present debates (let us think about John Snow
and War and Peace) and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov) still being read around the world.
One thing that was exciting sort of midway through the project was started that I getting scientists contacting me saying things like Hey why isn't our tree in your project?
Then you learn OK this has to do with war and conflict. And then it has this third layer of ecology
Their responses ranged from praising the EPA for a responsible flexible plan to condemning the agency for making war on coal and Montana jobs.
what is now the Gaza strip as part of the Syrian Wars. During these wars Seleucid ruler Antiochus III the Great fought against Ptolemy IV Philopator the fourth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt
whose last leader was Cleopatra. The matchup included tens of thousands of troops thousands of cavalry and dozens of war elephants on each side.
The elephants were the ace in the hole able to trample the enemy and sow terror with their massive size.
Elephants were considered the tanks of the time until eventually the Romans figured out how to defeat war elephants in later times said study co-author Alfred Roca an animal scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
and because forests absorb a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere slowing climate change it would make little sense to go after killer trees in the war against pollution.
However in 1783 when the American Revolutionary War ended Houckgeest decided to travel to Charleston South carolina
if they lose over Bt brinjal they lose the war, he says.
Argentina's forests dwindle: Nature Newsargentina, often perceived as a vast fertile territory, is losing its native forests.
Spraying the herbicide glyphosate on coca plants is a key tool in the war on cocaine.
when you have the virus in developing countries and war zones, such as Somalia, to carry out monitoring and surveillance,
when you have the virus in developing countries and war zones, such as Somalia, to carry out monitoring and surveillance,
though, countries such as the Democratic republic of the congo, Liberia and Nigeria have stumbled with their forestry targets because of war or lack of resources.
Mosquitoes score in chemical war: Nature Newskey weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge.
War on weeds loses groundwith its jumble of leaves and pointy, green, flower spikes, the plant known as pigweed or palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) isn t much to look at.
Malaria surge fearedthe war to bring malaria to heel has made slow but steady progress during the past decade,
or heard of were religious texts and'chronicles'that listed kings and queens, wars and things of that nature.
and sometimes war, in their wake.""Its eradication is a huge, huge, achievement that has happened largely under the radar of most of the virology
a war, complete with armed marksmen and camouflaged saboteurs, is about to erupt from the hedgerows.
and a six-year drug war. Enrique Pe  a Nieto will have his hands full
midway between Shanghai and Beijing the first case from Shandong province (not shown on map.
or emigrate and helped catalyse the country s bloody war of independence from Great britain. Working from 150-year-old dried leaves, two competing teams have sequenced now the genome of the single-celled organism that wreaked havoc on The irish potato crop.
eventually resulting in The irish War of Independence in 1919. Long before it hit Europe, P. infestans probably circulated in the Toluca Valley in central Mexico,
Ehsan Dulloo, head of conservation at Bioversity International, an agricultural-research organization in Rome, says that securing samples for placement in gene banks is important to protect species from destruction by natural calamities or war, for example.
"When the wars end and you have large economic growth, the emissions of CO2 rise fast
which plagues veterans of the 1990-91 war with symptoms of fatigue, pain, memory loss and gastrointestinal disorders.
@Wollf Laacrenbut in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war! I think an avatar scenario would be (a little?
While the United states never used them in war a declassified CIA document alleges Soviet use during their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
Egypt was the first country to use chemical weapons in war after WORLD WAR II. Egypt joined a civil war in Yemen in 1963 where the Egyptian militarty dropped sulfur mustard bombs on enemy troops sheltering in mountain caves.
Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein used sulfur mustards and the nerve agent Tabun against Iran in the 1980s during the Iran-iraq war and against the Kurdish people in northern Iraq in 1988.
Following a series of military defeats in war against Israel the Syrian government began amassing sulfur mustards sarin and VX (a nerve agent.
however that this dispersal was one of the many factors behind Gulf war Syndrome an illness seen in veterans of the Persian gulf war.
Weapons of War-Poison gas Considered uncivilised prior to World war One the development and use of poison gas was necessitated by the requirement of wartime armies to find new ways of overcoming the stalemate of unexpected trench warfare.
In the first month of the war August 1914 they fired tear-gas grenades (xylyl bromide) against the Germans.
Introduction of Poison gas The debut of the first poison gas however-in this instance chlorine-came on 22 april 1915 at the start of the Second battle of ypres.
At this stage of the war the famed Ypres Salient held by The british Canadians and French ran for some 10 miles
and the use of poison gas continued to escalate for the remainder of the war. Allied Retaliation Once the Allies had recovered from the initial shock of the Germans'practical application of poison gas warfare a determination existed to exact retaliatory revenge at the earliest opportunity.
If the war had continued into 1919 both sides had planned on inserting poison gases into 30%-50%of manufactured shells.
The German army ended the war as the heaviest user of gas. It is suggested that German use reached 68000 tons;
Gas never turned out to be the weapon that turned the tide of the war as was predicted often.
and disgust at the wartime use of poison gases that its use was outlawed in 1925-a ban that is at least nominally still in force today...
and maps hand-drawn after the war. But on this trip he has a new tool at his disposal.
And between the beginning of the air campaign and the end of the war Bentprop estimates 200 U s. aircraft were shot down inside Palau's barrier reef.
He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George h w bush who flew torpedo bombers during the war.
Of the four B-24s Bentprop suspects were shot down near Palau two were found after the war.
Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.
Sixty-eight years ago today an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped Little Boy the first atomic bomb ever used in war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Go back and read about how the Japanese defended the islands of Peleliu Iwo jima Okinawa Philippines.
It brought an end to the war that could have lasted by some estimates 3 more years and cost 7 million more lives.
but we were in the middle of a long bloody expensive and tragic war on two fronts that affected the entire world.
A bloody costly war against people willing to commit mass suicide rather than surrender certainly qualifies as an abnormal situation.
If we had been using to use 12 nukes on military targets in the Korean war Macarthur could've obliterated China's ability to defend itself or N. Korea.
Oh plus then we wouldn't have to fight the same war again in Vietnam.
And all the proxy wars fought in Asia backed by Red china wouldn't have occurred. But no nukes=bad.
because people understand all war and all tools of war are evil always forever. Let's let history be the judge of the rightness of using the atomic bomb.
Never think that war no matter how justified is not a crime. -Ernest Hemingway. âÂ#Âoethey have plundered the world stripping naked the land in their hungerã¢Â# they are driven by greed
if their enemy be rich; by ambition if poorã¢Â# They ravage they slaughter they seize by false pretenses and all of this they hail as the construction of empire.
âÂ# âÂ#ÂTACITUS The Agricola and the Germaniain all history there is no war
whom war is always pernicious even when successful: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoya people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern.
It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment.
and the other is the Bill of rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
--Major general Smedley Butler USMC (1933) All of us have heard this term'preventive war'since the earliest days of Hitler.
--Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 after being shown plans to launch a preventive war against the Soviet union;
-8 Million Jews before they died-3 Million invalids retards homosexuals gypsies etc before they died-20 Million Chinese from the 2nd Sinon War before they died (Japan occupation of China)- 10 to 100
Take your All war is evil. quotes and shove them. Aggression is often evil. War is one side defending itself against another aggressor.
Often they're both at fault. But typically one far more than another and particularly in this case one not at all.
I don't know how old you arebut apparently you know nothing about what was happening in the world at total war.
Killing them stopped the war and saved others. And again it wasn't just some glory-shot.
Those bombs ended the war. Actually the funny (not'ha-ha'but ironic) thing about these bombs is that they were completely unnecessary
if any significance in ending the war. Details here: www. foreignpolicy. com/articles/2013/05/29/the bomb didnt beat japan nuclear world war iimcd Xvice it must suck going through life like that.
A war winning ass-kicking might I add. Until the day comes when humans have evolved beyond religious differences greed idiocy fear
and self-righteousness we will continue to see war. Take your tree hugging anti-american bullshit and shove it up your asses.
First we were not the ones that started the war. It wasn't the US that went into Europe and destroyed countless cities.
He rarely talked about his time in the war but the one thing he never said was that the US shouldn't have dropped the bombs.
He and many others back then were grateful the war was brought to an end. He hated that he had to do
Then when are the Japanese going to apologize for all the atrocities they committed during the war
It's an immediate solution to the war on terrorism war on drugs the threat of the axis of evil
Go hug trees somewhere else until you acknowledge that the US didn't create the sins of man that cause war.
We didn't even start the war. We ended it though. That is not weak. You are fucking weak
and destroyed more of the Japanese war machine than the daylight raids which were only hitting about 5%of their targets.
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