Established around 220 BCE during the Han Dynasty, the ancient Silk Road boosted trade between Asia, Africa, and Europe. The cultural exchange that occurred between nations along the Silk Road generated great prosperity and economic growth. Now, the Chinese government plans to invest 40 billion dollars to reestablish the trade routes from the Baltic Sea […]
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Anara was a teenage Kyrgyz girl with ambitions of a college education and a career of her own. She would have been the first in her family to pursue higher education, and one of the first in her rural Kyrgyz town. Just weeks after her 17th birthday, her close friend asked her to come along
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The convenience of turning on the faucet and receiving safe, clean drinking is too often taken for granted. Many are so accustomed to the act that it would be gravely unsettling, at best, to find their water tainted with hazardous chemicals. That nightmare scenario occurred when tap water in Charleston, West Virginia ran pink and
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Bathroom, Restroom, Lavatory, The Facilities, The John, The Loo, Little Girl’s Room, The Latrine, The Crapper. . . . Why are there so many euphemisms for this common place that all humans use regularly? At some time in the past a bathroom was just that – a room that contained a bathtub, which was the
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Due to an amusing oversight on the part of an enterprising tour guide, a growing population of Rhesus macaques now resides in Silver Springs, Florida. It’s rumored that the original group of Floridian monkeys escaped from the set of a Tarzan movie being filmed in Florida, but in reality they were imported in 1938 by
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