After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
TV news is not very instructive.
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.