Nearly 6,000 species of animals and about 30,000 species of plants are listed in the various appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to protect them against over-exploitation.
In a recent study, Lauren Howe and Jochen Menges of the University of Zurich asked participants in an investment game who had been asked about their own flaws to allocate funds to startups.
Contracts could just as easily turn them into ruthless killers, as in 1377, when Hawkwood led the massacre of a famine-stricken town who'd tried to revolt against the local government.
One book critic wrote: Someday, people are going to wake up and realize that Woody Guthrie and his songs are a national treasure, like the Yellowstone or Yosemite parks.
In 1214, the Jin signed a peace deal due to their internal issues of corruption, natural disasters, and assassinations of top officials and had to pay tribute to Genghis Khan and retreat to the south.
The Thirty Years War was mainly fought in German territory, for instance, but the purpose of the Treaty of Westphalia that ended it surely went further than to “guard against German princes exercising untrammelled sovereignty”.
In the spring of 1998, he, E and about 15 or 20 ex–Soviet special forces fighters went to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic that borders Afghanistan.