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The arbitration of the Alabama claims was a precursor to the Hague Convention, [14] the League of Nations, the World Court, and the United Nations. [15] The Alabama Claims inspired international jurist Gustave Moynier to pursue legal arrangements to enforce international treaties in the 1870s. [ 16 ]
Library Genesis (shortened to LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [1]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
Flynt has written 13 books that focus largely on the historical, economic and social fabric of Alabama, including Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites (1990), [2] and he co-wrote Alabama: A History of a Deep South State, [3] both of which were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes.
Over 1,200 (and growing) books published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, up to c. 2009, fully available to download as PDFs (though content is still copyrighted) from the Thomas J. Watson Library at the MMA. Exhibition and collection catalogues, many very large and well-illustrated, and much else.
The western and central Gulf of Mexico, which includes offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is one of the major petroleum-producing areas of the United States. In 2007, federal leases in the western and central Gulf of Mexico produced 25% of the nation's oil and 14% of the nation's natural gas. [ 11 ]
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression is a 1990 book on U.S. history by Robin D. G. Kelley. It describes labor, racial and social history in Alabama during the Great Depression , focusing on black communist organizing. [ 1 ]