What caused his lack of speaking about the topic?

Did he have pressures from political groups/anti-gay organizations?

Why did he ignore the scientists at the CDC who informed him of ways HIV was not spread?

My highschool world history teacher is taking the approach of using the Big History course to teach world history. My question is, is it worthwile to bother learning it? So far all we've talked about is phylosophy and basic science. Its interesting enough but I'm worried that it won't get anywhere else.

Since trade with Japan appears to have been largely unsuccessful during the 16th and 17th centuries, did any European empires desire to subjugate Japan in order to gain access to trade goods? Europeans appear to have had much more advanced military forces, so it definitely seemed like a possibility.

I was hoping for a world history book that's not completely Eurocentric.

I went to a classical concert at Tulane University last night, put on by seven professors or music teachers from the East China Normal University. All of them played traditional Western instruments (violin, viola, cello, piano), and it got me wondering about why Western instruments--especially piano and violin--are or seem to be so popular in China/among Chinese-Americans. I don't have much to base this on except personal experience, but I grew up around musicians and musical competitions in the U.S., and Chinese-American students have often formed a sizable minority or even a majority of the musicians I've seen. I guess I have two questions: am I correct in thinking that Western music and musicians are unusually popular in China/among Chinese-Americans, and if so, why is that so?

Do you know of reviews of this book by historians or Bible scholars? I haven't found any. The reviews I've seen are from people have either a Christian or anti-Christian ax to grind.
And what do you think of it?
IMO Carrier's use of Bayesian method makes it possible to reach biased conclusions while seeming very rational.

I'm taking a class on modern China that starts at the decline of the Ming dynasty and goes into modern day. I need to choose a book that's related to this period for a paper. Obviously this is a really wide subject area so if I could get some recommendations I'd be very grateful!

When you study Neoclassical or Renaissance Art/Architecture, it's often taken for granted that Greece and Rome left one type of architecture behind between them. Namely, clean, symmetrical austere designs, differing depending on which civilization you mean but still have largely the same.

It seems strange to me that either civilization - given their long life, wealth etc. - would leave such a uniform legacy of what was aesthetically pleasing.

To come to my question: was there variety in design and style as Greece and, later, Rome developed? Did fashion changes occur, and if so how regularly? Were there any particularly radical shifts in what was good taste in either region over their lifetime? Why do we associate Greece and Rome with very particular designs in architecture?

I have to do an essay on the characteristics and objectives of the State between the XIV and XV century and while I do have some base material I can work with, I was wondering if there is any other readings that you would recommend on this subject.

My understanding was that for a very long time, across the world, societies held to a system of primogeniture and favoured the male children. How did women like Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great come to the head of their respective monarchies?

I think this probably won't fall within the 20 year limit. I've certainly seen it happen in books as well as on the internet, but how did it come about?

I was reading The Great Gatsby (which takes place in New York City/Long Island during the 1920s for context) and I was wondering if someone could give me some insight on an exchange.

Two of the characters are talking about driving into town when one says the car might not have enough gas. The other respoonds "If it runs out I can stop at a drug store. You can buy anything at drug stores nowadays".

Did modern gas stations not exist? Did people buy gas at drugstores? Were there enough cars to create enough demand for many gas stations?

Thanks kindly!

What three factors that day made the death toll from the blizzard so high?

Also, does anyone have a general basis of how the Natives viewed the newcomers to their land?

I know basic reasons such as profit, but is there anything deeper than that?

When did interests of different colonies begin converging and when did the colonies first see themselves as "Americans?"

What did he look like? And why don't we have any accurate descriptions of him? Did he resemble most Turkic peoples? Or did he look different?

What made Walter Cronkite "the most trusted man in America"? Why was this title bestowed on him, rather than his CBS predecessor Douglas Edwards, or any NBC and ABC contemporaries?

Also, why haven't any anchorman since Cronkite (e.g. Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Ted Koppel) been able to reach the same level of fame?

Some of the assumptions I made in my questions may be incorrect. Apologies if they are.