When Jawaharlal Nehru became angry, Mountbattens eyes went to Sardar Patel, but by now Mountbatten had understood that Patel would prove to be more rigid than Nehru in this matter. Therefore, Mountbatten asked VP Menon, his political advisor and secretary of the princely department of Sardar Patel,
A study of the oldest radiocarbon-dated ice sheets on the Col du Dôme glacier, 4,300 meters above sea level in the Mont Blanc massif, provided researchers with a record of atmospheric conditions in Roman times. The analyzed ice comes from the Ice Memory project , promoted by French and Italian glac
Yugoslavia was not involved in the war until April 1941. Since the end of November 1940, Hitler had attempted to attach this country to the German chariot, in view of the planned attack against Greece. On November 28 Hitler met with Yugoslav foreign minister Markovic , to whom he proposed the acc
During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia witnessed several climatic crises. In the long run, these crises fostered the development of stable forms of statehood and thus encouraged cooperation between political elites and non-elites. This is the main conclusion of a study published in the journal PNAS and