To be entitled to prisoner of war status, the captured service member must have conducted operations according to the laws of war
Genghis Khan believed that Heaven had commissioned him to establish a world empire
The Cayuga were one of the original five tribes that formed the
Iroquois Confederacy
Machu Picchu is known as the "Lost City of the Incas," having been abandoned a century after being built
Marcus Daly was an Irish-born American businessman known as one of the three "Copper Kings" of Butte, Montana
The village of Lidice was destroyed and its people killed in retribution for the killing of one of
Hitler's leaders
Joshua Nkomo was declared a national hero in recognition of his leading role in the struggle to establish
Zimbabwe's independence
Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times
Archibald MacLeish was awarded three
Pulitzer Prizes, two for poetry and one for drama
Kyoto University was founded to train scientists to support the rapid industrialization of
Japan during the
Meiji period
Christmas Island was uninhabited until the late nineteenth century and so has many unique species of fauna and flora that evolved independently of human interference
One of the stories in the Gilgamesh epic directly parallels the story of
Noah's
Great Flood
Spanish painter Francisco Goya is both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the modern artists
Jeremy Bentham, jurist, philosopher, legal and social reformer, and English gentleman, is regarded as the founder of modern
Utilitarianism
Joseph Campbell's philosophy is often summarized by his phrase "Follow your bliss"
Although Michael Faraday received little formal education he became one of the most influential scientists and one of the best experimentalists in the history of science
Elie Wiesel refused to write or talk about his experiences in the
Holocaust for 10 years after his liberation
Prejudice is a prejudgment based on membership in a group
Most of Dickens' major novels were first written in installments in journals and later reprinted in book form
Stanley Milgram's experiments showed that people may act in inhumane ways when ordered to do so by an
authority figure and when their peers also act in the same way
Belief in dybbuks,
souls of the dead that attach themselves to living persons on earth, became widespread in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Five tribes formed the original Iroquois Confederacy, which had a constitution known as the Gayanashagowa (or "Great Law of Peace") memorized with the help of special beads called
wampum
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. outlived four of his children, who met tragic deaths while in the prime of their lives
Clarence Darrow tried two important cases (the
Scopes Trial and the Ossian Sweet case) after announcing retirement
The first corrective contact lenses were made of blown glass
The term "Fascism" derives from
fasces, a bundle of rods used in the
Roman Empire to symbolize strength through unity
Even within societies which allow polygamy, in actual practice it generally occurs only rarely.
Human sexual activity is more than a physical activity, it impacts the minds and hearts as well as the bodies of the participants
An early parachute design was called "Homo Volans" (Flying Man)
Yurts have been a distinctive feature of life for
nomads living on the steppes of Central Asia for at least three thousand years
True matriarchal societies were, and are, extremely rare