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Debt/GDP fell from 106% in 1946 to 23% in 1974, but further analysis shows primary budget surpluses, surprise inflation, and pegged interest rates were key contributors.
Born in Calcutta and later part of the Anglo-Indian upper-class before moving to London
Britain’s naval campaign against the Atlantic slave trade began small but grew to involve over 14% of the Royal Navy.
The Comancheria once covered modern New Mexico, West Texas, and nearby areas, functioning as a powerful Comanche-controlled empire.
Certain viewpoints ignore that modern comforts arise from the systems being criticised.
He was a French woodblock print artist who lived in Japan most of his life and survived the war in Karuizawa by growing produce and keeping poultry.
John T. Scopes was charged in 1925 with breaking the Butler Act, which banned teaching human evolution in Tennessee’s public schools.
A crisis occurs when the old is dying and the new cannot yet be born.
The Sydney Ducks were a gang of criminal immigrants from Australia in mid-19th century San Francisco, blamed for rampant crime and the devastating 1849 fire.
Harry Dexter White (1892–1948) was a senior official in the U.S. Treasury Department who played a significant role in shaping American financial policy towards the Allies during World War II.
The Soviet Union lacked internal legitimacy due to unfulfilled promises of communism’s material abundance, leading them to seek external validation as a superpower to bolster domestic support.
Manufacturing jobs have shifted from the Rust Belt to Southern states like Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, resulting in a reversal of manufacturing exports since 1970.
Blue Willow china is a classic tableware pattern featuring a transfer-printed design inspired by Chinese art, depicting a serene outdoor setting with consistent elements across various porcelain items.
Savitri Devi Mukherji (1905–1982) was a French-born Greek-Italian writer, Nazi sympathiser, and spy who worked for the Axis powers in India during World War II.
Over the past eight years, major biennials have focused on identity, rejecting Western perspectives, and reclaiming precolonial knowledge such as indigenous thought and magic.
Abul Rizvi, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration, treats migration as a technocratic solution to counter population ageing due to declining fertility in Australia.
Hitler considered Nazism a form of socialism rooted in ancient Germanic traditions, emphasising national unity and race solidarity while rejecting Marxist internationalism.
The Bretton Woods system established fixed exchange rates by pegging currencies to the US dollar, which was convertible to gold at $35 per ounce.
The study finds that present-day German regions formerly under Roman rule exhibit more adaptive personality traits (higher extraversion, lower neuroticism) and better health and well-being outcomes than regions not occupied by the Romans.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan rapidly industrialised and built a strong military, relying heavily on imported raw materials due to scarce natural resources.
Samuel B. Griffith II (1906–1983) was a brigadier general in the US Marine Corps who served in the Pacific during World War II, earning the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross for heroism at Guadalcanal and New Georgia.
Reading about Franco and Salazar revealed that right-wing authoritarian rule in 1930s Iberia, with conservative dictators suppressing liberals, eventually led to national stagnation.
In the early to mid-1970s, David Bowie made controversial statements expressing apparent support for fascism, including referring to Adolf Hitler as “one of the first rock stars” in interviews.
After a long journey, the author meets the Mali people in Papua New Guinea, who live in small villages using traditional building methods and sell crops like coffee and copra for money to buy tools and donate in temple rituals.
Realpolitik is resurging globally, with countries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea practising it, and Trump’s approach focusing on deals that benefit the US narrowly, marking a shift from ideological engagement to national interests.