Mayflower Compact was the FIRST example of a written agreement
The USS Maine was sunk in the Harbour of Havana, Cuba, during a revolt of the cubans against Spain. Public opinion in the USA was that Spain was to blame. Starting as a diplomatic issue between Spain and USA, rapid escalation resulted in war between the two countries.
Originally used for telling time based on the angles of stars
During the expansion of the Islamic caliphate, the Muslim
rule was often preferred to the Persian or the byzantine because of the main
reason that the caliphate extracts few taxes from its conquered populations
than the empire that it resides.