"as for the peasants in the countryside, on the other hand, as soon as they rise up, they run into the political power of those local bullies, bad gentry, and landlords who have been crushing the peasants for several thousand years. (this political power of the landlords is the true foundation of the political power of the warlords.)
-mao zedong, "revolution and the peasants" (1926)

Arguably one of the most important inventions of the 20th century was a) the transistor. b) air conditioning. c) the vacuum cleaner. d) radio broadcasting.

The largest lake in south america is lake titicaca?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is