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13 hours ago · Just as there were endless regional versions of fermented grain beverages, there was no single source for the origins of capitalism. Whereas Marx imagined progressive stages leading inexorably toward the industrial system he observed in nineteenth-century Germany, capital accumulation and wage labor took diverse institutional and social patterns in Europe and around the world.
13 hours ago · The U.S. government, under President James Buchanan, refused to relinquish its forts that were in territory claimed by the Confederacy. The war itself began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces bombarded the Union's Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina .
13 hours ago · In 1351, when the empire was at war with the Genoese, John VI Kantakouzenos again repaired the walls, and even opened a moat in front of the wall facing the Golden Horn. Other repairs are recorded in 1434, again to defend against the Genoese, and again in the years leading up to the final siege and fall of the city to the Ottomans, partly with funds provided by the Despot of Serbia , George ...
13 hours ago · Tom Cruise. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, [ 1][ 2][ 3] he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $5 billion in North America and ...
13 hours ago · Marisol Correa-Ascencio, Ian G. Robertson, Oralia Cabrera-Cortés, Rubén Cabrera-Castro, and Richard P. Evershed, “Pulque Production from Fermented Agave Sap as a Dietary Supplement in Prehispanic Mesoamerica,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 39 (2014): 14223–28. 22.
