Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

Khamenei is the senior cleric on the Guardians Council that is the final authority in the government. Twelve senior clerics on the council have ruled Iran since the 1980s. Tenure on the council is for ...

Container ships can carry over 24,000 TEU/Twenty Foot Equivalent 6.1 meter metal containers. These ships have crews of fewer than fifty officers and sailors. The Nimitz has a ship’s complement of ...

For nearly thirty years China has been making serious preparations to launch an amphibious operation to conquer Taiwan. The latest development is a barge that carries a 130 meter long road platform ...

The x-ray evidence consisted of an x-ray image of a child that had been taken by photographing a real child head x-ray with a bullet positioned behind the child’s head or an x-ray of a child’s head ...

February 20, 2025: Large-scale Islamic terrorism actually began in the 1970s and changed Arab attitudes towards this perennial problem. For the first time in a long time the wealthiest Arab states, ...

February 20, 2025: Russian leader Vladimir Putin seeks to portray himself as a savvy manipulator of the economy and able to produce positive results from a pile of problems and failures. Since Russia ...