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Or just 70 ish years

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"Japan 1941 Countdown to Infamy" by Eri Hotta is also a good one that examines the Japanese perspective of Pearl Harbor.

Now do climate change...

"the time is coming when there will be no long drudgery and that people will toil not more than four hours a day, owing to the work of electricity,"

If you take the work/job out it, it's pretty much true, compared to 100 years ago, cooking, cleaning, and chores all done manually. Today electricity does all the work, we just load/unload and push things around.

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Where's my flying car?

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Edit: Oh , and my Jetpack?

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Yep the UN actually has come out on multiple occasions and used Rwanda as a reason for more funding. But countries are reluctant to fund peacekeeping anymore. Back in the 60's Canada was one of the biggest contributors, giving entire regiments to the peacekeeping forces. But even we have drawn down from what we used to be.

I think peacekeeping is a cause worth funding 100%, just like ending hunger which we could do easily.

The French due to allowing the coup plotters and genociders to meet in the embassy with the military attache means they are directly an actor of the genocide therefore responsible. Much like the Belgians were directly responsible for the Congo Crisis because they ordered the murder of the Prime Minister of the Congo which directly lead to the crisis.

>Also the French knew about the coup that was occurring which kicked off the Genocide

I think you need to reread my entire comment, and then go do some reading.

The RPF (The current leaders of Rwanda) tried to prevent this from happening by fighting back against the government for years. The genocide was just the peak of the entire civil war.

America didn't train the Taliban, that was the ISI. AQ had backing from many people in the Arab world, and their tactics weren't taught by them AQ hooked up with multiple other terror networks to actually build their doctrine, AQ was associated with the Chechens who had used AQ's tactics aside from flying planes into buildings against Russia during the 90's.

Pakistan though supported both AQ and the Taliban, the TTP (Pakistani taliban) was only founded in 2007 as a result of the US, and Pakistan cracking down on AQ in Pakistan.

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Ken Taylor, he did most of the scouting for Operation Eagle Claw.

I just picked up Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages and I am enthralled. Who knew that a treasure cache would lay undiscovered for 1,600 years to become known as the Hoxne Hoard.

I've only just began to scratch the surface of the Middle Ages, but what was once an uninteresting period of history to me, has recently become a fascination for me.

I want to get my hands all over the Middle Ages and to discover what once existed, and what still remains.

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Beautiful baby contests were an outgrowth of the eugenics movement which was very popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (including in 1923). They have mostly faded away, but beauty pageants--which have the same origin--are still around.

Which ones?

The future is predictable, the timing isn't.

So we still have to wait another 300 years to know if they were correct or not.

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I got the later one with new forward by William Mcfeely