James «Jimmy» Carter , American politician of the Democratic Party, was the thirty-ninth president of the United States (1977-1981). Although he had important successes in foreign policy, such as the Camp David Peace Accords (peace treaty between Egypt and Israel), the SALT II treaty with the USSR (
In the 1950s, when he was director of the CIA Allen Dulles and under the name of MKULTRA Project , a series of investigations and experiments began to manipulate human behavior and study its consequences. Through its Scientific Division, and with a budget of 6% of the Agencys total, experiments bega
After a convulsive period that coincided with the validity of the Volstead Act (better known as Dry Law) in which the American mafia made gold, but in which the streets of Chicago and New York were littered with corpses in the struggle for control of organized crime, the main mafia families of the c
The American Revolution , Bernard Cottret, 2003 A few days before the opening of the French States General of 1789, Rhode Island adopted the Constitution of the newly formed United States of America. It is the last of the thirteen original states to accept the constitutional text which still governs