Brit-Am Research Sources (10 October 2016, 8 Tishrei, 5777)
Contents:
1. Which countries has Britain not invaded, yet?
2. Why didn't Great Britain become the richest country in the world due to the British Empire?
3. USA Citizen Norman Borlaug saved a billion people from starving to death
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1. Which countries has Britain not invaded, yet?
https://www.quora.com/
Romain Bouchard
These are the 22 countries that Britain hasn't invaded : Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast , Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican City.
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2. Why didn't Great Britain become the richest country in the world due to the British Empire?
https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Great-Britain-become-the-richest-country-in-the-world-due-to-the-British-Empire-Where-has-all-the-collected-wealth-gone-Which-country-benefitted-most/answer/Joe-Hall-48
Joe Hal
Britain's share of the world's economy at the height of Empire was larger than the 24% share of the world economy The USA now enjoys.
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3. USA Citizen Norman Borlaug saved a billion people from starving to death
https://www.quora.com/What-people-in-history-are-underrated
Extracts:
Norman Borlaug saved a billion people from starving to death. Not a million. A billion - 1,000,000,000.
Borlaug started out in Mexico in 1944. ....the country was having difficulty feeding itself. Borlaug led the efforts to create hybrid species of wheat that would resist stem rust and yield more grain per stalk.
In the mid-1960's, the Indian subcontinent was in a terrible position. .... The US was shipping 20% of its own wheat output to the subcontinent and the results were only barely holding off what would have been, quite possibly, the greatest humanitarian disaster yet seen. ...
In 1965, Borlaug managed to ship 450 tons of his hybrid wheat seeds to the subcontinent and he set to work adapting it to the local climate and soil. The crop yields resulting from Borlaug's hybrids ended up setting records in South Asia. Within five years of Borlaug setting up his operation, the Indian subcontinent's wheat production had doubled - largely without needing to start up new farms.
Borlaug would later work in Africa from the 1980's until his death. His organization, the Sasakawa Africa Association, would double production of sorghum and maize (the former a native staple, the latter obviously not) in Africa within a two year period from 1983 to 1985.
Overall, it,s been estimated that Borlaug's grain at one point supplied 23% of the world's calories