’’ The ’Star Wars’ moniker stuck. Over the course of 10 years, the government spent up to $30 billion on developing the concept, but the futuristic program remained just that—futuristic. It was formally scrapped by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Why Reagan’s ’Star Wars’ Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction. Reagan…
The Sumerian afterlife was a dark, dreary cavern located deep below the ground, where inhabitants were believed to continue “a shadowy version of life on earth”. This bleak domain was known as Kur, and was believed to be ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal. The Sumerians did believe in an afterlife…
The Sumerians invented writing around 3500 B.C.; but it would be almost 1,000 years (circa 2600 B.C.) before writing was used for all the other less practical reasons. Clay bulla and the commodity tokens that were inside it. The owner’s seal is faintly visible on the exterior of the bulla.…
A key issue was states’ rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn’t support, especially laws interfering with the South’s right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished. Another factor was territorial expansion. Slaves were…
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. In April 1978 Afghanistan’s centrist government, headed by Pres. The Soviet Union would stay in Afghanistan until February 1989. They…
Thus, although the Soviet Union was officially a secular state and guaranteed freedom of religion in its constitutions, in practice believers suffered discrimination and were widely attacked for promoting religion. Religion in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was established by the Bolsheviks at the end of the Russian Civil…
Soviet Citizens were able to vote for representatives to represent them in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, which was the legislative arm of the Soviet Union. The elections in the Soviet Union would be held every 4 years for the citizens to go to the polling station and…
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1Vostok 1Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Vostok_1Vostok 1 – Wikipedia, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich GagarinYuri Alekseyevich GagarinYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9…
On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satelliteman-made satelliteSatellites do not measure temperature directly. They measure radiances in various wavelength bands, which must then be mathematically inverted to obtain indirect inferences of temperature. The resulting temperature…
The vast majority of the Spanish Armada’s losses were caused by disease and foul weather, but its defeat was nevertheless a triumphant military victory for England. By fending off the Spanish fleet, the island nation saved itself from invasion and won recognition as one of Europe’s most fearsome sea powers.…