Category: Ethnicity

How did Rockefeller and Carnegie build monopolies? They also limited their competition by forming monopolies. The monopolies they created in the oil and steel industries allowed them to control the prices of their goods; thus keeping them as high as possible. There was limited competition in the market to undercut their prices. What strategies did […]

What was the average cost of a house in 1925? approximately $6,000 What were houses like in the 1920s? Modernist. The Roaring ’20s were nothing if not rebelliously avant-garde, and the Modernist homes of the 1920s fit that bill. Many early Modernist homes featured Art Deco elements, like chevrons, zig zags, and other geometric motifs. […]

Why do forensics take photos? Photographic developments in crime scene science Crime scene photographs are used in a number of ways, including to record the aftermath of an event as found, and the comparison of a variety of physical features (such as a shoeprint found at a scene and the suspected shoe itself). What type […]

Are cobs good at jumping? Cobs are often good jumpers, but usually learn quicker than other horses that they can go through them too! Try making the jumping look more solid, even if they will still fall down, as this may bluff your cob into thinking they’ll hurt to go through, so he should jump […]

Who caught the most TD passes from Brett Favre? Late in the second quarter, Favre broke another Marino record when he threw the 8,359th pass of his career, and is also within shouting distance of Marino’s record for yards passing. Jennings also caught the record-tying TD from Favre, a 57-yarder last week that lifted the […]

What is partial EC? Partial solar eclipses happen when the Moon comes between the Sun and Earth, but the Moon only partially covers the Sun’s disk. During a partial solar eclipse, the Moon, the Sun and Earth don’t align in a perfectly straight line, and the Moon casts only the outer part of its shadow, […]

Is nouvelle cuisine dead? The process culminated in writing the code of the new gastronomy in a famous article of our magazine in 1972, for which Henri Gault (who died in 2000) forged the name “Nouvelle Cuisine.” The “Nouvelle Cuisine” was alive and well. What is the difference between haute cuisine and nouvelle cuisine? Basically, […]

How much did Grover Cleveland win by? In 1870, with the help of friend Oscar Folsom, Cleveland secured the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of Erie County, New York. He won the election by a 303-vote margin and took office on January 1, 1871 at age 33. What was one key result of the presidential election […]

Does digital optical cable carry video? Also known generically as optical audio, its most common use is in consumer audio equipment (via a “digital optical” socket), where it carries a digital audio stream from components such as CD and DVD players, DAT recorders, computers, and modern video game consoles, to an AV receiver that can […]

How did the Miwok make their clothing? The clothes worn by the Miwok men were limited to loin cloths woven from grass or bark fibers. In the winter months warm clothing was needed that were made from the hides of animals such as deer (buckskin), elk, squirrel, rabbit and wildcats. What clothes did the Coast […]