Prior to their adoption of the Western solar calendar scheme, the Chinese almost wholly followed their own lunar calendar for determining the times of planting and harvesting and festival days. Although people in China today use the Western calendar for almost all business, governmental and practical matters of daily life, the old method still...
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Understanding The Chinese Lunar Calendar
Weapons From A Time Before Gunpowder
Though today we live in an age where such weapons are considered by many to simply be the pathetic tools of a technologically inferior age, there is something noble about swords and other melee weapons of days gone by.
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Historical And Political History Of Leon Trotsky
In November of 1879 Lev Davidovich Bronsteinwas born, but he would be better known better as Leon Trotsky, he was a Marxist theorist as well as a Bolshevik revolutionary. Trotsky was second only to Lenin as the leader of the Russian October Revolution which was the political revolution and the second wave of the...
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