China and Russia team up to build a new space station, conservationists work to build a wall of trees on a desert's border, and we check out an island for sale.
The tune is "Freedom". The melody was composed and recorded by Paul McCartney in light of the September 11 assaults in 2001. McCartney was in New York City at the season of the assaults and saw the occasion while sitting in a plane stopped on the landing area at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport
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The Silk Road promoted commodity exchange and cultural. it led to Buddhism one of the religions of the Kushan kingdom reached China and also the merchant caravans Buddhist monks went from India to Central Asia and China, preaching the new religion. Buddhist monuments were discovered in numerous cities along the Silk Road.
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Germany sent a coded message (aka Zimmerman Telegram) to Mexico proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico. Germany suggested Mexico reclaim it's former territory by going to war with the United States, thus distracting them from the World War. President of the United States Woodrow Wilson got his hands on this telegram and joined the Triple Entente in the war weeks later.
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As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for
an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the
conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at
fault, the Palestinians are irrational “terrorists” who have no point of
view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the
Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand
years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the
creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes — on both
sides — inevitably follow from this original injustice.
