<span>Hemingway thought war was TRAGIC.
</span><span>During the First World War, Ernest Hemingway volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross. In June 1918, while running a mobile canteen dispensing chocolate and cigarettes for soldiers, he was wounded by Austrian mortar fire.</span>
He gave them useless glass beads.
He forced them to work.
He brought several of them back to Spain.
He drank water out of their gourds.
Since the countries were becoming industrialized, they needed more and more resources. Since they couldn't have them in their own countries, they had to conquer others. That's why they would make colonies and spread their empires. That way they could take coal or oil or lumber or similar things from the colony and use it for their own purposes. Usually, they would leave nothing to the colony.
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.