In the basin of a half-billion souls, purification and pollution swim together in unholy wedlock. According to Hindu mythology, the Ganges river of India - the goddess Ganga - came down to the earth from the skies. The descent was precipitated when Vishnu, the preserver of worlds, took three giant strides across the Underworld, the Earth, and the Heavens, and his last step tore a crack in the heavens. As the river rushed through the crack, Shiva, the god of destruction, stood waiting on the peaks of the Himalayas to catch it in his matted locks. From his hair, it began its journey across the Indian subcontinent. Whatever one makes of this myth, the Ganges does, in fact, carry extraordinary powers of both creation and destruction in its long descent from the Himalayas. At its source, it springs as melted ice from an immense glacial cave lined with icicles that do look like long strands of hair. From an altitude of nearly 14,000 feet, it falls south and east through the Himalayan foothills, across the plains of northern India, and down to the storm-lashed Indo-Bangladesh delta, where it empties out into the Indian Ocean. Another version of the myth tells us that Ganga descended to earth to purify the souls of the 60,000 sons of an ancient ruler, King Sagara, who had been burnt to ashes by an enraged ascetic.
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Their commander Hannibal marched his troops, including cavalry and African war elephants, across a high pass in the Alps to strike at Rome itself from the north of the Italian peninsula
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The development of agriculture was hallmark for the development of human civilization. Before that, humans had to focus their efforts on hunting and harvesting for food, so the effort existed to sustain life. After the development of agriculture, civilizations came to have a food security, that is, subsistence is no longer a doubt. From then on, society can turn its attention to other activities and has experienced a major evolution. One of the activities by which people could develop was work, which eventually led to the development of technologies. The industrial revolution is the result of the human capacity to work and create technological tools. This was only possible after the population had a food security, thanks to the agriculture revolution.
The commercial revolution allowed for two key components. First they allowed joint stock companies to put money into a company. If the company failed not all your money was lost. Second the commercial revolution allowed for major raw resources to be brought to Europe, which in turn was finished products.
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They are called simple machines because they don't need too much tools to be build
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"It is not the cause of one poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every free man that lives under a British government on the main [continent] of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty. . . . Nature and the laws of our country have given us a right to liberty of both exposing and opposing arbitrary power (in these parts of the world at least) by speaking and writing the truth." — Andrew Hamilton, 1735 This courtroom summation helped establish which democratic principle in colonial America?
1.trial by jury
2.equal voting rights
3.protection of private property
4.freedom of the press
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The Answer is option (4) Freedom of the press.
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To begin with, Freedom of the press is one of the fundamental rights of a democratic society. It helps various electronic and printed media especially newspaper and magazines to report news without fear of being restricted, controlled or censored by the government.
This right or democratic principle was helped established by a lawyer Andrew Hamilton in 1735 while he was defending a newspaper publisher called John Peter Zenger. The publisher was charged with Libel simply because he published criticism of the government.
Defending the publisher, Andrew Hamilton put up a long speech (that includes the court summation in this question) arguing that true statements of criticisms should not be considered as libel. He was able to make the judge and jury agree to his argument that truth is a defense against accusations of libel.
