Francisco Franco's national Catholic dictatorship, which required women to seek permission for basic activities like travel and banking, lasted 36 years until his death in 1975.
Japan set up a huge national ministry in the 1980s to dominate the memory chip industry — and ultimately failed, showing that centralized government planning rarely wins technology races.
Detroit lobbied the U.S. government to stop Japanese car imports by claiming dumping — Japan responded by building factories in the U.S., but Detroit still lost and no longer makes cars.
AT&T, a private company, became effectively the United States national phone company by promising universal telephone access to every address in America in exchange for a government-sanctioned monopoly.
The China Shock wiped out tens of thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs in the Hickory, North Carolina area alone after cheap Chinese imports flooded the market.
The internet wiped out or dramatically reduced entire job categories — typists, travel agents, bank tellers — but so gradually that workers had time to pivot, meaning it was not experienced as mass unemployment.
Andrew read aloud that Saddam Hussein's son Uday, who headed the Iraqi Olympic Committee, reportedly tortured and imprisoned national soccer players following embarrassing losses.
The Aka people of the Congo, a hunter-gatherer society, have fathers who spend extensive time within arm's reach of infants and are heavily involved in caregiving — reflecting the egalitarian, cooperative foraging model.
Peter the Great was the 14th of his father's 16 children, making him easy to overlook in the political succession.
Peter the Great stood approximately 6 feet 8 inches tall, making him an imposing and immediately recognizable figure.
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