This is false. Like most European countries, France was most interested in the import and trade of things like tobacco and sugar.
The Golden Age of Islam. It began in the middle of the eighth century by the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate and the transfer of the capital from Damascus to Baghdad. The Abbasids had been influenced by Koranic commandments and hymns, such as “The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr,” stressing the value of knowledge. During this period, the Islamic world became an intellectual center for science, philosophy, medicine and education, as the Abbasids embraced the cause of knowledge and created the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. There, Muslim and non-Muslim scholars struggled to gather all the knowledge of the world and translate it into Arabic. Several classical works of antiquity, which would otherwise have been lost, were translated into Arabic and Persian, and later translated into Turkish, Hebrew, and Latin.
The Iran–Contra Scandal (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate,[1] Contragate[2] or the Iran–Contra affair, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[3] The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.
The official justification for the arms shipments was that they were part of an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The plan was for Israel to ship weapons to Iran, for the United States to resupply Israel, and for Israel to pay the United States. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the hostages.[4][5] However, as documented by a congressional investigation, the first Reagan-sponsored secret arms sales to Iran began in 1981 before any of the American hostages had been taken in Lebanon. This fact ruled out the "arms for hostages" explanation by which the Reagan administration sought to excuse its behavior.[6]
The plan was later complicated in late 1985, when Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council diverted a portion of the proceeds from the Iranian weapon sales to fund the Contras, a group of anti-Sandinista rebel fighters, in their struggle against the socialist government of Nicaragua.[4] While President Ronald Reagan was a vocal supporter of the Contra cause,[7] the evidence is disputed as to whether he personally authorized the diversion of funds to the Contras.[4][5][8] Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on 7 December 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostage transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to "moderate elements" within that country.[9] Weinberger wrote that Reagan said "he could answer to charges of illegality but couldn't answer to the charge that 'big strong President Reagan passed up a chance to free the hostages.'"[9] After the weapon sales were revealed in November 1986, Reagan appeared on national television and stated that the weapons transfers had indeed occurred, but that the United States did not trade arms for hostages.[10] The investigation was impeded when large volumes of documents relating to the affair were destroyed or withheld from investigators by Reagan administration officials.[11] On 4 March 1987, Reagan made a further nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for the affair and stating that "what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages".[12]
The affair was investigated by the U.S. Congress and by the three-person, Reagan-appointed Tower Commission. Neither investigation found evidence that President Reagan himself knew of the extent of the multiple programs.[4][5][8] In the end, fourteen administration officials were indicted, including then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Eleven convictions resulted, some of which were vacated on appeal.[13] The rest of those indicted or convicted were all pardoned in the final days of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, who had been Vice President at the time of the affair.[14] The Iran–Contra affair and the ensuing deception to protect senior administration officials (including President Reagan) has been cast as an example of post-truth politics.[15]
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the kids in canada have it worse it is cold and they do not have a lot of food in canada most kids that live there are under weight. while the government is looking ispace and spending lots of money they cant even help the people that live on this planet so how are they going to support life on mars. kids in canada dont have good schools either.
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all of these statements look correct besides the third one
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Hello there! World war 1 was a hell of a war that led to many technological innovations at the cost of human suffering on a level never seen before. The trenches that were littered throughout western Europe were primarily designed for defense against enemy advances, artillery bombardments, and machine gun fire. Attacks on trenches were particularly deadly due to the use of newly developed machine guns, barbed wire, and CQC (Close quarters combat). It is arguable that the invention of the first tank by the British, gas attacks by the Germans, and devastatingly effective shotguns by the Americans could be seen as a technology that helped men overtake trenches, but they hardly did. Overall, all of these statements look correct besides the third one.
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