A military protective zone between the English colonies and the Spanish settlement in Florida
By John Gregory | 8/16/16 8:30 AM
It has no classrooms or campus. It doesn’t offer degrees or diplomas. It doesn’t even have a football or basketball team.
Yet this uniquely American institution has touched the lives of every citizen for more than two centuries.
It’s the Electoral College, and this year, as it does every four years, it will select the person who will be the next President of the United States.
But how the Electoral College exactly works and why we even have it remains a mystery to many voters. To help answer those questions, Kentucky Tonight convened a panel of political and legal scholars to explain the history and mechanics of the Electoral College
The Neolithic Revolution also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current geological epoch, the Holocene and it forever changed how humans live, eat, and interact, paving the way for modern civilization. It has been linked to everything from societal inequality a result of humans increased dependence on the land and fears of scarcity to a decline in nutrition and a rise in infectious diseases contracted from domesticated animals.