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In the year 1348, after more than a decade of war with France, Kind Edward III of England noticed that many knights who returned home from the front lines had become completely impoverished. The war had taken a massive financial toll on Edward’s men. Some of them had been captured in battle and forced to sell all of their property in order to ransom themselves. Others had become grievously wounded, and their permanent disabilities prevented them from earning a living. So the King created a special foundation to care for some of these men, who became known as the ‘Poor Knights’.

Nearly every year in his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters, Warren Buffett spends a few pages talking about the dynamism of the American economy. His message is clear: the United States has faced adversity before. It will again. But America always prevails and you should never bet against it. That theme has certainly held true during Buffett’s life. He was born in 1930 and came of age at a time when the US had become the world’s undisputed dominant superpower. Buffett’s entire business career, in fact, took place at a time when America was on the rise. But even Buffett would...

In May 1969, at the height of America’s involvement in Vietnam, the US military declared victory in the Battle of Hamburger Hill. The Army had lost only 50 soldiers and killed about 600 Viet Cong in the process of taking the remote hilltop. But US journalists questioned the importance of the victory: what did some random muddy hill in the middle of the jungle have to do with the broader goals in Vietnam? Even the soldiers on the ground questioned the operation: they had fought for weeks and lost friends along the way. And for what benefit? Hamburger Hill was later abandoned by the US milita...

Love For Living Animals: Barbary Lions Only in Captivity? Barbary Lion from Keystone Safari, Grove City Pennsylvania. Wikimedia Commons ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms, and tapeworms.  The vaquita is preyed upon by large sharks and killer whales, keeping them away from us. But only 10 vaquitas are left and in their absence, the diet of sharks and wh...

Love For Living Animals: Barbary Lions Only in Captivity Pressenza ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we've seen at home - insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms, and tapeworms. The vaquita is preyed upon by large sharks and killer whales, keeping them away from us. But only 10 vaquitas are left and in their absence, the diet of sharks and whales may change. A tiger in the wild indicates that the forest it inhabits is healthy and diverse. As of now, there are...