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When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy ...

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An old question that I saved at the time because this kind of primary source heavy ‘experience’ question is fairly fun. I’ll answer for New Zealand, so I’ll move the time period to the early 19th century, as guns only started to be used around 1806 and in serious numbers from 1819 or so.

It pretty much is that the US is a bigger market. While the NHL was formed in 1917 with 4 (quickly down to 3) Canadian based teams, it added its first American team, the Boston Bruins, in 1924. T

I am not familiar with this specific story, nor do I have knowledge of any Cherokee teachings outside what is published in the field. I can, however, discuss the transitions in the U.S. Southeast that saw the collapse of Mississippian cultures and the rise of coalescent societies like the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw.

You're correct to point out that subordinate leaders in the Napoleonic Wars had greater scope to exercise their own judgement than their counterparts in the wars of Frederick the Great. In most of Frederick's battles, he did attempt to work out a set idea to govern the whole concept of the attack. However, it's important to underscore that this stemmed from the fact that once the battle proper began, he would have little control over the forces actively engaged, which comprised most of his army

The very short answer is: planes, trains, and automobiles (and ships). The extremely long answer happens to be something I've been working on for a while (very slowly) that, so far, hasn't quite got to Yalta, but for what it's worth:

The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in longstanding historical and theological tensions between...