[adsense format="3"] On September 2, 1945, the Communist Viet Minh party took over Vietnam and declared the country autonomous. The French, however, backed by the British, returned to Vietnam and forced the Viet Minh to attend the Fountainebleau Conference in 1946. Ho Chi Minh, the Viet Minh leader, was inflexible in his demands for unification [...]

The Federal Surface Mining Act was passed in 1977 for the laudable purpose of protecting the environment from the ravages of strip-mining of coal. For many years environmentalists had fought to get the bill passed. Strip-mining menaces the habitat of wildlife and causes incalculable damage to the environment. The law is explicit on such matters [...]

“Oil has become the ‘new gold’ – a financial asset in which investors seek refuge as inflation rises and the dollar weakens,” said Daniel Yergin, chairman of CERA and executive vice president of IHS. “The credit crisis has been fueling the flight to oil and other commodities, and that will last until the dollar strengthens [...]

In the discussion of the economic crisis and his relationship with the world of food, which actually point to underline is the world’s food crisis itself. And as we have seen together, cooking is the act of preparing food for eating by applying heat. This includes a variety of methods, tools and combinations of materials [...]

American Car Industry | The oil embargoes of 1973-1975 caused vast chagrin among the manufacturers of automobiles around the world. In particular, American companies were obliged to create innovations in producing small cars that would compete in the market with those flowing into the American market from Japan and Europe. No longer could Americans afford [...]