On May 9, 1942, the Japanese colonial government of Korea announced that beginning in December 1944 Korean men would be drafted into the Japanese military. By the end of World War II, 110,000 Korean conscripts served with the Japanese armed forces. Korean Soldiers in WW2 German Army. It seems that…
Between 1887 and 1894, four states adopted maximum hours laws for at least some groups of workers. Eight states had such a law prior to 1886. Illinois, one of the states hardest hit by the strike wave of 1886, passed an innovative law outlawing both boycotts and blacklisting in 1887.…
Law and order was very harsh in Medieval England. Those in charge of law and order believed that people would only learn how to behave properly if they feared what would happen to them if they broke the law. Even the ’smallest’ offences had serious punishments. Middle Ages Justice &…
But the ancient Egyptians also recognized hippopotami as positive creatures. Hippos lived in the Nile River, the source of life, so they, too, were associated with life. Large numbers of hippos were found by the river Nile in Ancient Egypt in the ‘Pre dynastic times’. Hippos would forage in the…
Profession. Law was dominated by part-time or amateur lawyers and judges in the 1600s, but by the late 1700s there were many well-trained lawyers in the English colonies, especially in and around the major port cities and towns. They constituted a valuable resource. Legal anthropologists have not yet discovered the…
Soviet journalist Alexei Lebedev after living in the vagrant community in Moscow stated that there were “hundreds of thousands” of homeless in the USSR and that the homeless communities presence was becoming more noticeable in the later years of the USSR. There was no place for homelessness in the land…
By the 1800s there were libraries across the United States and Europe that were open to the public, but were not public libraries in the same sense that they are today. The history of libraries began with the ever first efforts to organize collections of documents. These great ancient libraries…
And later, in the 12th–13th centuries the Benedictines order built a network of independent hospitals, initially to provide general care to the sick and wounded and then for treatment of syphilis and isolation of patients with communicable disease. During the thirteenth century an immense number of hospitals were built. The…
The llama was less fortunate during the sixteenth century and faced annihilation. They became victims of globalisation during the ’Columbian Exchange. ’ “Today they are used in animal therapy techniques for elderly people in care homes; have appeared as novelty attractions at weddings; and even as golf caddies. – Domesticated…
Overview. Throughout the eighteenth century hospitals opened in the larger cities of Europe and America as industrialization developed and the middle class expanded in those countries. These hospitals were very different from the kinds of hospitals seen in Western and Arabic cultures since early in the Christian era. In the…