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7 de mai. de 2024 · Politics & History. Elephant Executions. At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.” The 19-year-old Indian elephant, Fritz-Frederic, favorite of the children of Paris, was put to death after he had gone mad for several days, c. 1910. Getty.
4 de mai. de 2024 · JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. We publish articles grounded in peer-reviewed research and provide free access to that research for all of our readers.
Há 5 dias · Capturing the Civil War. The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world. via JSTOR. By: Susanna Ashton. May 23, 2024. 8 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
Há 4 dias · To compensate the colonists, “Kongo had to assist them build a colony, eventually called Angola, on Kongo territory around the bay of Luanda and the mouth of the Kwanza River beginning in 1575.”. Thornton writes that establishing the colony fell to Paulo Dias de Novais, who would become its first governor. His successors didn’t have an ...
2 de mai. de 2024 · Natural Science. Surprising Discovery Challenges Key Principle of Modern Cosmology. Observations of an enormous cosmic structure, dubbed the “Big Ring,” seem to violate the Copernican principle. Looking northwards in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Getty. By: Don Lincoln. May 2, 2024. 5 minutes. First Appeared on Big Think.
Há 5 dias · How the Universe Forges Stars from Cosmic Clouds - JSTOR Daily. Natural Science. How the Universe Forges Stars from Cosmic Clouds. A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation. The stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. via ESO. By: Adam Frank. May 23, 2024. 7 minutes. First Appeared on Big Think.
Há 6 dias · Guerrilla warfare, also known as unconventional or irregular warfare, is named after the Spanish for “little war.”. The term comes from the resistance to Napoleon during the Peninsula War (1807–1814). It’s generally a strategy of smaller, weaker forces against larger, stronger forces.
