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The relationship between Ataturk and Lenin created a minor controversy in Turkey in 2008, when the Atatürk Thought Association used a banner showing them side by side: A public prosecutor's office in İstanbul has reportedly launched a probe into the Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) over its use of a banner showing Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder ...

Roger Babson is often credited with predicting the 1929 crash. See, for example, http://www.newswise.com/articles/the-man-who-predicted-the-crash-of-29 Having worked in the markets through several more recent crashes, I suspect that there may have been a number of people lamenting high asset prices in 1929, but Babson happened to say so in the press just ...

One should take with a grain of salt any "predictions" by "experts" about the stock market. An inherent characteristic of the stock market is that it is highly unpredictable in the short run. This follows by common sense: If one could predict the fluctuations in the stock market consistently, one could become the richest person in the world simply by ...

40°43′28.4″N 74°0′23.6″W top of this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Vilnius_Church_%28New_York_City%29 I have to give Thompson credit because all I did was type in Our Lady of Vilnius Church coordinates.

Lawrence Sloan, in his 1931 book, "Every Man and His Common Stocks," posed three rhetorical questions about the economic conditions in the United States and the rest of the world: Was the country in a severy and possibly prolonged economic downturn? Almost certainly yes. Were there clear signs ahead of time? A qualified yes. The last questoin was "Could if ...

For what I remember, Chiang's relationship with the Green Gang is addressed in detail in Sterling Seagrave's The Soong Dynasty ("One loved power, one loved money, one loved China: three remarkable sisters who shaped China's greatness") and to a lesser extent also in Jay Taylor's The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Here's ...

I am writing this answer as the son of two Chinese immigrants to the U.S. My father happens to be a nephew of this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Shiyi. Elder members of my mother's family were also involved in Chinese politics. As my mother would say, "Chiang Kaishek did not have a very big chest" [heart] Chiang Kaishek was a military man who ...

The Green Gang were among Chaing Kai-shek's largest financial backers - they saw the communists as bad for business, and the Nationalist forces welcomed the money and street-level intel the triad could provide. Kai-skek needed the Green Gang to retain his hold on the KMT over challenges from Jingwei, and bring the left wing of the party to heel.

Every so often in American history, we have a "girl power" movement. One appears to be happening right now, as we speak. That is, today's girls are graduating from college in greater numbers than boys, and getting better entry-level jobs. This appears to have no precedent in American or world history. This "girl power" movement is an offshoot of their ...