What is the Geneva Convention? The Geneva Convention is actually the Geneva Conventions because there are more than one. It is a set of four treaties that lay out the humanitarian rules of war. There were four meetings, held in 1864, 1906, 1929, and 1949. Both of them came after a major war, when people […]
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What is a Banana Republic? A Banana Republic is a small, poor, politically unstable country with an economy dependent on one export and usually controlled by foreign companies. The existence of US controlled banana republics have created an environment where drug cartels can rise up. Banana Republic is not a positive term. The economy is
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What are the Miranda rights? The Miranda rights are a set of warnings that have to be given by police to suspects that they intend to interrogate for information. If the police don’t read you your Miranda rights before you are interrogated and you go on to provide important information that proves your guilt, this
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What is Esperanto? Esperanto is a language constructed by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. He meant it to be the international language. Around the world there are 2,000 native speakers of Esperanto and 100,000 people that can speak it. The word “Esperanto” means “one who hopes”. It is an artificially created language and the most
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What was the problem with Concorde? Concorde was far too expensive, was not very environmentally friendly, couldn’t carry many people, and it wasn’t allowed to go supersonic over land because of the sonic boom. Concorde first flew with Air France and British Airways in 1976. The supersonic plane flew continuously for 27 years before being
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What is the Voynich manuscript? It is a 200 page, vellum codex, with hand drawn pictures. It is written in a language that no one knows or can read. The Voynich manuscript is named after a Polish bookseller called Wilfred Voynich, who bought it in 1912. Today, the book is owned by Yale University and
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How do weather forecasters know how hot it will be? Weather forecasters predict how hot it will be by inputting as much meteorological data into a supercomputer as they can. They also look at patterns. They look at what the weather has done in the past. And they go on the basis that a weather
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What is wind chill? Wind chill is where the wind reduces the air temperature, making it feel much colder than it actually is. Wind chill can be deadly if you are not wearing the right clothing. The temperature for the day that you say in the newspaper or on the weather forecast of the TV
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How are sellotape (Scotch tape), duct tape, stick glue, wood glue, and superglue different? All the types of glue have different chemical components and they are different in the way that they dry. They also stick or don’t stick to different things. Adhesive tape is called sellotape in the UK and Scotch tape in the
Is time travel possible? Time travel into the future is possible but time travel into the past is most likely not. It is difficult to say if something is possible or not because we can only judge the likelihood of it being possible with our current knowledge and technology. There is no way of knowing
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