The Persian Gulf is bordered on both sides by countries that export about 25% of the worlds crude oil and 20% of the world’s liquified natural gas (LNG). What’s more, the two sides don’t always get along with each other: Iran is about 95% Shia Muslim and the Arabian countries (except for Bahrain and Iraq)
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Late in World War II in the Pacific an Associated Press photographer happened into capturing a photograph that became famous world-wide. The story of the picture is interesting by itself, but it includes a major shift in battle tactics used by the Japanese Military in their defense of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles
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The tendency in America is to look at the Islamic Revolution in Iran through a lens that focuses only on the Hostage Crisis in 1979. As bad as that was, there’s a whole history of what transpired before and after that event that dates back over 130 years to 1891. To understand where they are
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When Julius Caesar became Dictator for Life in Ancient Rome, it was a relatively short time before he was assassinated. His fate was sealed by someone he would never have thought of as an enemy—Marcus Junius Brutus. This raises the question as to whether Brutus was Caesar’s friend or his foe. To see how it
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When Donald Trump forced regime change on Venezuela by removing and arresting their president, Nicholas Maduro, and seizing control over their petroleum industry, he aimed to “run” the industry in order to straighten out all its problems. Sounds like a noble cause considering the condition the industry was in, but what’s the cost going to
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Have you ever played pickleball? It’s a game much like tennis although the court is smaller and the racket is replaced by a paddle resembling a table tennis paddle. The ball is lightweight, but can travel fast over a short distance like a whiffle ball. The rules and scoring are different, but the object of
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The Enron scandal in 2001 became the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. It featured a loophole in the accounting principles that allowed corporations to maintain entities off their consolidated books as long as the parent company owned less than 50% of the entity and the entity was adequately capitalized. A clever but crooked financial
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees all persons the right to free speech, among other things. At various times in our history this right has come under fire by actions taken by the government itself. One such time existed at a point in our history when you may not have expected it—the
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In 1829 a wagon train led by the Spanish merchant Antonio Armijo was traveling to Los Angeles to establish a trade route and took a rest break in what is now Southern Nevada. Since that time a regular stream of growth began in the area, slow at first, but then increasing to the point where
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Of all the persons who followed Christ and promoted Christianity few had a more decisive impact than the Emperor Constantine who legalized the religion in the Roman Empire and helped bring the different tangents back to the same base. The boost given during his reign propelled Christianity to the forefront of Roman life, and later
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