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Rugpjūčio dvidešimt antroji, sekmadienis - 234-oji metų diena (paskutinė 33-iosios metų savaitės diena), iki Naujųjų metų lieka 131 diena. Savo vardadienius šiandien švenčia: Ipolitas, Karijotas, L...

On America’s Experience With Empires Twice over the course of their history, Americans have faced the tribulations of life under imperial management. In the first case, it was the mercantilist empire of Great Britain. In the 1760s, to recoup the costs of several decades of imperial wars, Britain began taking extraordinary measures to consolidate control over its subjects in the 13 North American colonies. Inheriting the Crown in 1760, a mentally derelict King George III represented an increasingly despotic vision of empire, in which colonial legislatures and individual colonists became enti...

No one can precisely predict the future, but based on what occurred in 2020, the reign of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency may not be long for this world.

Ben Franklin’s “Liberty Snake,” first printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Published January 12. 2021 8:00AM  John Steward, Special to The Times Squeezed between the revolutionary hotbeds of New York and Boston, New London and Groton in the 1700s may have been small ports, but we played on the big stage, helping to bring the segregated colonies together in unity, strengthening the country in preparation for war. After Parliament enacted the reviled Stamp Act in 1765, the wild Sons of Liberty held two December meetings in a New London tavern, the first actions in organizing all ...