It is generally taken as a given that there no reasonable design concept could have prevented the collapse of Twin Towers, once it was initiated, from progressing all way down to ground. This view rooted in idea force generated during inevitable impact between what may be called intact upper section (IUS) and lower (ILS)—meaning building sections above below initially lost columns, respectively...

The presence of horses in archaeological sites across North America is often noted research as an indicator European contact. Fewer studies, however, have considered how Indigenous peoples incorporated intrinsic aspect their lives. Research that considers peoples’ relationships with typically focuses on Southern Plains groups and does not feature Northern communities a central aspect. Looking s...

Horse breeding in South Africa started in 1652, shortly after the 1st European settlement in the Cape. African horsesickness posed a serious problem and after a devastating outbreak of the disease in 1719, horses were largely replaced by oxen for agricultural and transport purposes but remained important from a sporting and military point of view. Examples of the latter are the export of horses...

Stephen Jay Gould, remarkable paleontologist and revered popularizer of science, died of cancer on May 20, 2002. With his death, he passed into the history that he loved; a history, as he well knew, whose mills grind exceedingly fine. Those mills have started work on his writings, just as he ruminated memorably over books by Lamarck, Cuvier, Goethe, Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Darwin, Weismann, de Vr...

During World War II, 36 conscientious objectors participated in a study of human starvation conducted by Ancel Keys and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, as it was later known, was a grueling study meant to gain insight into the physical and psychologic effects of semistarvation and the problem of refeeding civilians who had been starved during ...

It seems that everyone needs a strategy. Governments have lot of them: extraordinary - forced, regular-planned: strategies to fight against COVID19, strategy "fiscal" accounts, help those endangered by the fall suspension economic activities, for general health care, energy clean, "green" energy, housing construction, capital investments, etc. Each policy area more meaningful if there is behind...

Not long ago, everyone was talking about the New Economy. Recent events — notably the global economic slowdown and a possible impending war — have crowded out discussions of the New Economy. To be sure, some of the rosy scenarios portrayed at the time — most notably, that the New Economy portended the end of the business cycle — seem curiously dated. Indeed, in terms of the gap between the econ...

there have been many debates and discussions about the shape of new international system and its structure in post cold war era by the scholars and writers of international relations discipline. notwithstanding, this question continually being asked that, what kind of structure is being shaped in post cold war era and how does it impact in foreign policy behaviors of political unites in particu...