August 1, 1714: The Elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain and Ireland. Part I.
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George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; May 28, 1660 – June 11, 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from August 1, 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) within the Holy Roman Empire from January 23, 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
George was born in the city of Hanover in the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the eldest son of Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate. Sophia was the granddaughter of King James I-VI of England, Scotland and Ireland through her mother, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.
For the first year of his life, George was the only heir to the German territories of his father and three childless uncles. George’s brother, Friedrich August, was born in 1661, and the…
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The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley | The Glenn Show
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Why did Sweden Support the Vietcong?
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in defence economics, International law, laws of war, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Vietnam war
Should Congress Raise the Minimum Wage?: A Debate with Lee Ohanian and Daron Acemoglu
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, poverty and inequality, unemployment
Large Rival Monkey Gangs Fight in Thailand
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This took place in front of a Buddhist temple in Lop Buri, Thailand and a similar incident took place in the city last year. While monkey gang fights in the Lopburi are nothing new, the number of the animals is massive. This largely due to reduced tourism resulting from the coronavirus outbreak in which tourists typically feed the monkeys.
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Solar and wind growth failing to outpace demand growth (except during an economic crisis)
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The good news keeps on coming: Belgium is worldwide in the top 15 of “Wind and Solar countries”. More specifically, we are at 9th place having a share of 20% of our electricity production from solar and wind in 2020:
It didn’t end there. China, the EU-27 and the United States are responsible for more than two-thirds of global generation, Vietnam went from 0 to 14 TWh in just 3 years, Chile and South Korea have quadrupled their wind and solar generation since 2015, and many other countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey and Uruguay) have tripled it. Also, many countries now get around a tenth of their electricity, which is the global average for electricity generation from solar and wind.
Of course, the transition to solar and wind is going to be cheap. According the article, the cost for solar and wind are at a tipping point…
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The Birth of Experimental Science
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by Tim Harding B.Sc. B.A.
(An edited version of this essay was published in The Skeptic magazine, June 2016, Vol 36, No. 2, under the title ‘Out of the Dark’. A talk based on this essay was also presented to the 2016 Australian Skeptics National Convention in Melbourne).
To the ancient Greeks, science was simply the knowledge of nature. The acquisition of such knowledge was theoretical rather than experimental. Logic and reason were applied to observations of nature in attempts to discover the underlying principles influencing phenomena.
After the Dark Ages, the revival of classical logic and reason in Western Europe was highly significant to the development of universities and subsequent intellectual progress. It was also a precursor to the development of empirical scientific methods in the thirteenth century, which I think were even more important because of the later practical benefits of science to humanity. The two most influential…
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