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Where did Americans live in 1870? About 35% lived in New England and the Middle Atlantic states -- that is, between Maine and Washington DC. Another 35 % lived in east and west north central states, which included both West Virginia and Kentucky. Another 26% lived in the eleven states of the old Confederacy. This left 4% in the vastness of the Mountain and Pacific states.

The god interrupts shiva and Parvati, skanda is born, Parvati curses the wives of all gods

The Buddha preaching in Magadhi in 5th century BC

The upanishads are often referred as 'the end of the Veda' (Vedant).Just as the Brahmanas are, among other things, footnotes to the Vedas, so the Upanishads began as Cliffs Notes to the Brahmanas, meditations on the meaning of the Vedic rituals & myths. Bridging the Brahmanas and the Upanishads are the Aranyakas('Jungle Books')

Thousands of tanks had rolled back and forth over the gravelly rock of Libya during WWII, in the titanic desert struggle between Germans and the British. And it was there that Rommel's forces chronically short of fuel, had ultimately been overwhelmed. Neither side knew that, even as their fuel gauges were falling, they were fighting at times only a hundred miles or so from one of the worlds great reserves of oil.

The hands you dare not bite, kiss it. An Arab adage

Americas share of the world export trade in illuminating oil fell from 78% in 1888 to 71% in 1891, while the Russian share rose from 22 % to 29 %