The original mutually agreeable boundary seems to have been the McCartney-MacDonald. Once in the 1920s China seems to have accepted, even the Johnson line, by publishing maps that showed the Johnson line as its boundary. However, even after they changed that position after 1950 they still seeming...

In March 1863 Farragut ran the batteries at Port Hudson and began disrupting Confederate operations in between Vicksburg and port Hudson. Shelby Foote seems to suggest that it was this operation that really cut off western food supplies. And that grants eventual capture of Vicksburg is what op...

I'm researching Staverton, Northampton(shire), England. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is called Stavertone. According to wikipedia, the meaning of the town name is 'staved" town. I've looked up the definition of stave and can't seem to make it apply to a town. Thanks.

What is an appropriate way to describe the economic system that Jesus lived in? I would assume it's vaguely capitalistic, in that people would produce their own goods and services (farming, ranching, trades), which they would sell to other people. But capitalism is a modern concept- is it inappro...