Why did the Watergate Hotel cause the downfall of Nixon? It didn’t necessarily cause his downfall, but it was the first domino that fell, and it was his coverup of what happened that sealed his fate. Richard Nixon became president in 1968, beating the Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was the vice president at the […]
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What happened to Kaiser Wilhelm? He was given asylum in the Netherlands, where he lived until he died in 1941. Wilhelm became Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia in 1888. Germany was not a unified country until after the end of World War 1. What we know now as Germany was a collection of
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What could the 10 plagues in the bible have been? Assuming they actually happened, they could all have rational explanations. However, the evidence shows that they were not a real event. The ten plagues appear in the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament. The story is that the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians
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When did people start using passports? The idea for the modern passport was introduced by the League of Nations in 1920, shortly after the end of World War 1. It was basically a way to control immigration. The idea behind the passport has existed since the very first nation states. A passport was a document
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Where did stoicism come from? It was invented in Athens in 300 BC, by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus). Stoicism is a philosophy that seems to enjoying a revival these days. You see lots of videos of people on Instagram and YouTube who espouse the stoic lifestyle. So, what exactly is stoicism? Stoics believe
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Was Robin Hood real? Probably not, but the legend could have been based on a real person. Robin Hood has been made famous by the many movies that have been made about him. His story is legendary. In all of the modern stories, he is a lord and while he is away fighting in the
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How many countries are nuclear powers? There are 9 countries that have nuclear weapons. They are the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea. Between them, they have a grand total of 13,000 nuclear weapons. One nuclear weapon can destroy a city. If all 13,000 of those nuclear
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Why is there an obelisk in Rome? There is more than one and the Romans took them from Egypt as a show of power. During the Roman Empire, 50 obelisks were taken from Egypt and 13 of those survive today. 8 of those 13 were made in Ancient Egypt and the other 5 were commissioned
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What is impressionism? It was a style of art where the artist was trying to capture an impression of the moment. Claude Monet is probably the most famous impressionist, and he was one of the few artists who was able to make money while he was alive. Impressionism began in Paris in the late 1800s
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Why did the Chinese government move to Taiwan? The Republic of China’s government lost a war with the Chinese Communist Party in 1949 and fled to Taiwan. We have to go back a bit further than 1949 to look at this question. People have lived on the island of Taiwan for thousands of years. Stone
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