At midnight on June 30 and into the morning of July 1, 1997 Britain formally ceded sovereignty over Hong Kong to China, ending more than 150 years of British rule. The moment would come to symbolize a changing world amid a more powerful China and an emerging Asia. China was a rising economic and military…
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Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo
The sheer number of historical anniversaries and commemorations in 2015 has certainly kept me busy. Today marks the bicentenary (200 years) since the world-changing Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, which pitted the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte against the Duke of Wellington and allied forces. In terms of significance, the Battle of Waterloo decisively…
How warm weather led to the rise of Genghis Khan
How warm weather led to the rise of Genghis Khan In the thirteenth-century a Mongol warrior named Genghis Khan took control of the nomadic tribes on the Great Steppe and launched a series of invasions that would see a vast empire being established from China to Eastern Europe. Now a team of researchers have shown…
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