#885 How did Israel end up where it is?
How did Israel end up where it is? The British government had the idea to create a Jewish homeland roughly where the Land of Israel used to be. To do…
How did Israel end up where it is? The British government had the idea to create a Jewish homeland roughly where the Land of Israel used to be. To do…
What is the Hudson Bay Company? It is a company that began when two French traders set up a fur trading post on Hudson Bay in 1670. The Hudson Bay…
When did Britain become an island? It was connected to continental Europe by a land bridge that was destroyed 450,000 years ago. Some of the land bridge returned and that…
Why do many Americans drink coffee and many British people drink tea? Because Americans boycotted tea before, during, and after the War of Independence and because the British government gained…
Why do British people say football and Americans say soccer? Britain used to call football soccer until about 1980 when they started to call it football. Before we start, this…
Why do some countries drive on the left? Because of the way carts were built and then not wanting to change. There are 56 countries that drive on the left-hand…
When did the British empire end? People take the return of Hong Kong to China on July 1st, 1997 as the end of the British Empire, but there are three…
I learned this today. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28th June 1914 started World War 1 because of a series of treaties that existed across Europe. It…