The History of Asbestos

The History of Asbestos 1

Asbestos is a highly versatile, strong, cheap, non-flammable malleable substance that has been used in building, textiles and construction for the last 2000 years.   Asbestos is also a highly toxic airborne fibrous substance that causes a number of different incurable cancers in humans that are exposed to it.  Asbestos is in many homes around …

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A History of eBooks

A History of eBooks 2

An Electronic Book or eBook as they are universally known is a text-based publication in digital form.  While they may contain images and graphs of some kind, mostly their formats lead them to be text-based. eBooks are designed to be read off an electronically compatible device either an iPhone, a Kindle eReader, tablet or personal …

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The Crimean Khanate and the Great Power Struggle for the Ukraine in the 17th Century

The Crimean Khanate and the Great Power Struggle for the Ukraine in the 17th Century 5

The recent annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation should remind us of the competing and complicated claims of legitimacy over this tiny black sea territory, in this case between Ukraine and Russia. However, it would be a mistake to analyze Russia’s territorial ambitions as an isolated action, indeed quite the opposite. The Crimean …

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