The Berlin Airlift was one of the defining events of the Cold War. American and British cargo planes delivered over 2.3 million tons of supplies to the citizens of Berlin during a Soviet blockade of the city from June 1948 to May 1949.
Roman
Much of the Roman diet, at least the privileged Roman diet, would be familiar to a modern Italian. They ate meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, cheese, grains (also as bread) and legumes. Meat included animals like dormice (an expensive delicacy), hare, snails and boar.
Modern
Top it off with bread and a dessert, and that sums up a typical American meal. When I lived in Texas it was BBQ meat, usually beef brisket, pork ribs or chicken with beans and cole slaw. ... The meat is usually smothered roast beef or pork. Sometimes a baked chicken is the centerpiece or a huge meatball.
Galloway's purpose in writing the letter was to point out his solution to the problem of colonists resisting the imposition of taxes by the British government. It was the first impulse of what would later be known as the Galloway's Plan of Union, which consisted in creating a parliament of American colonists who would oversee the decisions the British parliament had for the new continent.
In the letter, Galloway recognized the burden of sustaining the colonies as being a reasonable cause for the United Kingdom to tax colonists, but recognized the inability of the later to pay due to the trading restrictions set by the English.
He suggested that if colonists considered the impositions too heavy, they should refer to more rational methods than rioting to let the British understand that they couldn't pay the taxes, for example by sending American representatives to the British parliament.
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Battle of Marathon, (September 490 bce), in the Greco-Persian Wars, decisive battle fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica in which the Athenians, in a single afternoon, repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece.
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