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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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the Volturno River. After turning over Sicily and Naples to Victor Emmanuel, he retired to his home on the island of Caprera, where he formulated plans to capture the Papal States. His first expedition to bring this about, in 1862, resulted in his wounding. He mounted another expedition on Rome in 1867, only to be halted by French troops. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, he led a force of volunteers in support of the new French republic. Garibaldi's popularity, his skill at rousing the masses, and his military exploits are all credited with making the unification of Italy possible. He died at Caprera. The following is the complete text of a relevant chapter (ch. 13) from Young People's History of the World for the Past One Hundred Years, by Charles
Demographics of Thailand
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Thai (33.7% of the population, including Bangkok), Northeastern Thai (34.2%), northern Thai (18.8%), and southern Thai (13.3%). The language of the central Thai population is the language taught in schools and used in government. Several other small Thai-speaking groups include the Shan, Lue, and Phutai. Up to 12% of Thai are of significant Chinese heritage, but the Sino-Thai community is the best integrated in Southeast Asia. Malay-speaking Muslims of the south comprise another significant minority group (2.3%). Other groups include the Khmer; the Mon, who are substantially assimilated with the Thai; and the Vietnamese. Smaller mountain-dwelling tribes, such as the Hmong and Mein, as well as the Karen, number about 788,024. The population is mostly rural, concentrated in the rice-growing areas of the central, northeastern, and northern regions. However, as Thailand
Han Dynasty
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Bian Western Han Dynasty 206 BC-AD 9, 23-25 Gao (高 py. gāo) Liu Bang (劉邦 py. liú bāng) 206 BC-195 BC Did not exist Hui (惠 py. hùi) Liu Ying (劉盈 py. liú yíng) 195 BC-188 BC Did not exist Empress Dowager Lü (呂太后 py. Lü Taihou) Lü Zhi (呂雉) 188 BC-180 BC Did not exist Shao (少 py. shao4) Liu Gong (劉恭 py. liú gōng) 188 BC-184 BC Did not exist Shao (少 py. shao4) Liu Hong (劉弘 py. liú hóng) 184 BC-180 BC Did not exist Wen (文 py. wén) Liu Heng (劉恆 py. liú héng) 180 BC-157 BC Houyuan (後元 py. hòu yúan) 163 BC-156 BC Jing (景 py. jĭng) Liu Qi (劉啟 py. liú qĭ) 157 BC-141 BC Zhongyuan (中元 py. zhōng yúan) 149 BC-143 BC Houyuan
Bible code
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people believe exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible. The primary coding method is the Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS). To extract an ELS from a text, choose a starting point (any letter) and a skip (a number, possibly negative). Then, beginning at the starting point, select letters from the text at equal spacing as given by the skip. For example, the bold letters in this sentence form an ELS for the word SAFEST. (The skip is -4. Spaces and punctuation are ignored.) Often more than one ELS related to some topic can be displayed simultaneously in an ELS letter array. This is produced by writing out the text in a regular grid, with exactly the same number of letters in each line, then cutting out a rectangle.
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
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800 loads of stores and ammunition to Leopoldville on the Stanley Pool. (railroad?) Progress was slow, since the rainy season was was at its height, and food was short - a problem that was to be persistent thoughout the expedition (as a subsistence economy, the area along the route rarely had spare food for 1,000 hardworking men). On 21 April the expedition arrived at Leopoldville. Although King Leopold had promised a flotilla of river steamers, only one (the Stanley) worked; Stanley requisitioned two (Peace and Henry Reed) from missionaries, whose protests were overridden, and the Florida, which was still under construction and so used as a barge. Even these were insufficient, so many of the stores were left at Leopoldville and more at Bolobo. At this point Stanley also announced the
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