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One Word: Plastics A 2009 study by Anthony L. Andrady and Mike A. Neal titled "Applications and Societal Benefits of Plastics...

Reflecting on the progress of the Green Revolution shortly after it happened in 1968, William S. Gaud coins the term: Over the last five m...

Nationalism is a pretty broad term. Merriam-Webster gives us "a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country o...

A world map, highlighting the British Empire as of 1886. The map was sponsored by the Imperial Federation League. The League, founded in 1...

An overview of diseases spread between the Old and New Worlds. Source:  http://faculty.humanities.uci.edu/bjbecker/PlaguesandPeople/lectur...

When the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus ended in 750, members of the ruling family were being killed. One family member, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I,...