June 27, 1954: Elected Guatemalan Leader Overthrown in CIA-Backed Coup. On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. How did the U.S. overthrow Arbenz? He joined a group of leftist army officers…
ER (TV Series 1994–2009) – Ariel Winter as Lucy Moore – IMDb. Who is Lucy Moore on ER? Ariel Winter: Lucy Moore Photos (1) Why did Ariel Winter leave Modern Family? Ariel Winter has revealed that she decided to move away from Los Angeles because of the toll paparazzi interest…
Aristotle can be classed as a tabula rasa empiricist, for he rejects the claim that we have innate ideas or principles of reasoning. He is also, arguably, an explanatory empiricist, although in a different sense from that found among later medical writers and sceptics. Plato’s successor Aristotle (384–322 bce) conceived…
The Arizona Territory sided with the Confederacy, while the New Mexico Territory sided with the Union. Then a Confederate Army from Texas moved into eastern New Mexico to hold both the Arizona and New Mexico Territories within their influence. However, a Union Army from California moved into western Arizona Territory.…
Aristotle (Athens, 384–322 BC) is revered among political theorists for his seminal work Politics. He made invaluable contributions to liberal theory through his observations on different forms of government and the nature of man. What government did Aristotle believe in? Aristotle considers constitutional government, in which the masses are granted…
In 1901, on a visit to Calcutta, he married 14-year-old Mrinalini, the daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, a senior official in government service. Aurobindo was 28 at that time. Mrinalini died seventeen years later in December 1918 during the influenza pandemic. Did Aurobindo marry? In 1901, on a visit to…
Ashoka was able to rule over the vast and diverse Mauryan empireMauryan empireMauryan empire, in ancient India, a state centred at Pataliputra (later Patna) near the junction of the Son and Ganges (Ganga) rivers. It lasted from about 321 to 185 bce and was the first empire to encompass most…
Avicenna is generally understood to have been aligned with the Sunni Hanafi school of thought. Avicenna studied Hanafi law, many of his notable teachers were Hanafi jurists, and he served under the Hanafi court of Ali ibn Mamun. Was Allama Iqbal Shia or Sunni? In spite of his Sunni heritage,…
Some of the most important city-states were Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, and Delphi. Of these, Athens and Sparta were the two most powerful city-states. Athens was a democracy and Sparta had two kings and an oligarchic system, but both were important in the development of Greek society and culture. Was…
This peculiar frequency of bones has become one of the main arguments that the australopithecines were hunters, and more specifically head hunters and trophy keepers (Dart 1949, 1955, 1956a, 1956b; Hughes 1954). Who is the first hunter on earth? Nimrod is described in Genesis 10:8–12 as “the first on earth…