Robert Kagan; Devon Gaffney Cross; Bruce P. Jackson; John R. Bolton; The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focused on United States foreign policy.It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC's stated goal was "to …

The 10th century was the period from 901 through 1000 in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the last century of the 1st millennium.. In China the Song dynasty was established. The Muslim World experienced a cultural zenith, especially in al-Andalus under the Caliphate of Córdoba and in the Samanid Empire under Ismail Samani.Additionally, there was a cultural …

The Game of the Century is a chess game that was won by the 13-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer against Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City on October 17, 1956. In Chess Review, Hans Kmoch dubbed it "The Game of the Century" and wrote: "The following game, a stunning …

The "century of humiliation", also known as the "hundred years of national humiliation" (in Mandarin 百年国耻 Bǎinián Guóchǐ), is a term used in China to describe the period of intervention and subjugation of the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China by Western powers and Japan from 1839 to 1949.The term arose in 1915, in the atmosphere of rising Chinese nationalism …

A raíz del descubrimiento de América a finales del siglo XV, el siglo XVI prosiguió con las grandes exploraciones, principalmente españolas y portuguesas, por el Nuevo Mundo, el Pacífico, Asia, etc. España completó la primera vuelta al mundo de la historia.La economía se globalizó, creándose un primitivo capitalismo. En Europa, las reformas protestantes discutían …

A Idade Média (adj. medieval) é um período da história da Europa entre os séculos V e XV. Inicia-se com a Queda do Império Romano do Ocidente e termina durante a transição para a Idade Moderna.A Idade Média é o período intermédio da divisão clássica da História ocidental em três períodos: a Antiguidade, Idade Média e Idade Moderna, sendo frequentemente dividido em …

Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were first introduced into Europe in the 14th century. Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers.. Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune …

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein.It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture.. The title "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a …

Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German naturalist and scientific illustrator.She was one of the earliest European naturalists to observe insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.. Merian received her artistic training from her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, a student of the still life painter Georg Flegel.

Richard Wagner nasceu na casa nº 3 em um quarteirão judeu de Leipzig (em português tradicionalmente chamada Lípsia, cidade onde já haviam vivido diversos outros artistas de renome, como Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn e Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), dia 22 de maio de 1813, a nona criança de Carl Friedrich Wagner, que …

El siglo xiii d. C. (siglo trece después de Cristo) o siglo xiii e. c. (siglo trece de la era común).Es llamado el «Siglo de los Castillos». Comenzó el 1 de enero de 1201 y terminó el 31 de diciembre de 1300.. Después de sus conquistas en Asia, el Imperio mongol se extendió desde Asia oriental hasta Europa oriental, mientras que el Sultanato de Delhi conquistó gran parte del ...

Concepto. Según la concepción original de Heinz Dieterich Steffan, el socialismo del siglo XXI sería la cuarta fase del desarrollo del movimiento socialista en la cual se superan los proyectos fallidos de estatización del siglo XX. [4] De igual manera, él estableció que el socialismo del siglo XXI no depende en sí del tipo de propiedad que se establece, por lo que se sostiene …

Buenos Aires, en el texto de la Constitución: Ciudad de Buenos Aires o Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA), [10] también llamada Capital Federal, por ser la sede del gobierno nacional, [11] es la capital y ciudad más poblada de la República Argentina.Esta metrópolis es una ciudad autónoma que constituye uno de los 24 distritos, o «jurisdicciones de primer …

Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man of African origin who served as a retainer and weapon-bearer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.. In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India.Yasuke was one of the several Africans to have come with the Portuguese to Japan during the Nanban …