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2 hours ago · SINGAPORE, June 29 — Imagine being turned away by immigration officers at the Causeway for your long hair, beard, and floral shirt. It may sound amusing now, but in the 1970s, a campaign called Operation Snip-Snip was introduced in Singapore. The campaign targeted the hippie culture, which was blamed for the increasing local drug use.
2 hours ago · David Cutler, a teacher of history and journalism at Brimmer and May in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, calls textbooks intimidating. They’re typically massive, around 1,000 pages long. “With so much dense, mind-numbing text, too many students give up trying to understand what’s really important,” he says. #6.
1 day ago · RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
1 day ago · Modern. ↓ Future. v. t. e. Archaic humans emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the emergence of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens) in East Africa around 300,000–250,000 years ago. The earliest known recorded history arose in Ancient Egypt, [1] and later in Nubia, the Horn of Africa, the ...
