Contacts with Muslim scholars and their preserved Greek and Roman texts brought the Europeans a wealth of knowledge about medicine, art, and government, much of which contributed to the "<span>a. Renaissance Era" since this was a new age of science and art. </span>
<span>The Deepwater
Horizon oil spill affected an area of approximately 2,500 to 68,000
square miles, affecting the Gulf Coast of Mexico, especially the states
of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. In
2013, in the state of Louisiana, they managed to eliminate 4,900,000
pounds of oil from beaches, twice the amount of oil collected in 2012.
The economies of the Gulf Coast states were terribly affected, as the
spill affected the industries, of which, the inhabitants of the coast of the four affected states depended. <span>More than a third of US waters in the Gulf were closed to fishing, to avoid further pollution.</span></span>
The only amendment that has been repealed is prohibition.
It was repealed because it was hugely unpopular, totally ineffective and a large factor in increasing the power of the Mafia in the USA.
It was passed in the first place because of misguided nonsense paraded by well-meaning moralistic busybodies.
<span>Sort of like the war on the (rest of) drugs .... except many of those are still illegal and they were not part of a constitutional amendment.</span>
