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How Did KFC Become Bigger in Asia Than in America?
Kentucky Fried Chicken started in the American South. Colonel Sanders sold his recipe and the chain grew across the United States. Today China has roughly three times as many KFC restaurants as the United States.
The brand did not become b...
It started with pepper. Then it started collecting taxes.
In 1600 a group of London merchants received a royal charter to trade in the East Indies. They wanted pepper and other spices. Two centuries later the same company collected taxes across large parts of India, ran a private army bigger than...
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
The Soviet Union had the world’s second-largest economy, thousands of nuclear weapons, and an army that occupied half of Europe. In December 1991 it ceased to exist.
It did not lose a war to the United States. It ran out of the money and t...
What Were History’s Most Successful Mercenary Armies?
Mercenaries have a bad reputation. They fight for money, switch sides, and leave when the gold runs out. Some of them also built the best armies money could buy.
The most successful ones treated war as a business with rules. They showed up...
In 1960 it was poorer than Ghana. Then it started exporting.
In 1960 South Korea’s income per person was about $158. That was poorer than Ghana or many other places people did not expect to stay poor. The country had just finished a devastating war. Factories were rubble. Most adults could not read....
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