World History Analysis and Views

The Commonwealth comprises 52 countries, across all continents. The members have a combined population of 2.3 billion people, almost a third of the world population, of which 1.26 billion live in  India  and 94% live in Asia and Africa combined. [52] After  India , the next-largest Commonwealth countries by population are  Pakistan  (180 million),  Nigeria  (170 million),  Bangladesh  (156 million), the  United Kingdom  (63 million) and  South Africa  (52 million).  Tuvalu  is the smallest member, with about 10,000 people. [53] The land area of the Commonwealth nations is about 31,500,000 km 2  (12,200,000 sq mi), or about 21% of the total world land area. The three largest Commonwealth nations by area are  Canada  at 9,984,670 km 2  (3,855,100 sq mi),  Australia  at 7,617,930 km 2  (2,941,300 sq mi), and  India  at 3,287,263 km 2  (1,269,219 sq mi). [54]  The Commonwealth members have a combined  gross domestic product  of over $9 trillion, 78% of which is accounted for by

After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, a German army surrounded the city of Leningrad in an extended siege beginning that September. In subsequent months, the city sought to establish supply lines from the Soviet interior and evacuate its citizens, often using a hazardous “ice and water road” across Lake Ladoga. A successful land corridor was created in January 1943, and the Red Army finally managed to drive off the Germans the following year. Altogether, the siege lasted nearly 900 days and resulted in the deaths of more than 1 million civilians. // http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/siege-of-leningrad

On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. With Europe on the brink of another major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet military. German chancellor Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. The pact also contained a secret agreement in which the Soviets and Germans agreed how they would later divide up Eastern Europe. The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact In the previous year, Hitler had annexed Austria and h

The blue eyes and blond hair may disappear in the Scandinavian countries through marriage with no blue eyes. No law can ban or prevent that but it would be nice that the Scandinavian will be known for that. The blue eyes may slowly disappear Peter Frost has written a cool paper on the evolution of blond hair and the origin of the remarkable diversity of eye and hair color in Northern and Eastern Europeans.  His paper will be published in the upcoming March edition of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.  Frost is spot-on in nailing intense sexual selection as the primary reason for the high prevalence of blondness, which is of recent origin (less than 20,000 years old), and the unusual diversity of hair and eye color among Northern and Eastern Europeans.  Whereas Frost’s proposed reason for the intense sexual selection is open to debate, the conclusion that intense sexual selection is implicated is almost certain.  I am including his paper in this post, but will first men