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Can you make a theory related to the thoery of apes on how people were made?

many people asks how was people made others say they were made from apes so i concentrated on that theory and asks others what's their opinion or maybe their theories related to this theory just maybe people would know.

What are the ten most obscure facts you can tell me about the history of the United States?

The USA (PresidentPolk) deliberately started the Mexican American War and to avoid the stigma of having taken land by force of arms, “bought” the SW in the following treaty.The USA wanted to take western Canada - the concept pushed by Minnesota and Michigan.The USA tried for years to annex British Columbia. Under Polk first, then Seward after Lincoln’s assasination.Pickett, of Pickett’s Charge fame, was in command of US forces during the Pig Island War, married a native woman, and their home is still standing in Bellingham WA.The first state constitution of Oregon barred Blacks from residency.California settlers killed off most of the Indians who had resided in the state.The Louisiana Purchase came about as Napoleon needed money to restart the war against England not because of American diplomacy. The French troops destined for New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory were decimated by yellow fever in Haiti and no longer able to continue their journey. Napoleon’s brother live out his years in NewJersey.The Alaska Purchase was marred by scandal and corruption and almost lost Congressional approval.Seward was in favour of American Manifest Destiny and wanted to claim all of Mexico, Greenland, Canada, Hawaii and more as American territory. He only got Alaska. If he had been successful, the capital would have been Mexico City.President Grant was so angry at Great Britain that he told General Sheridan to command an invasion force of British North America and gave him 30 days to wrap it up. Cooler heads prevailed and the threat ended with the Washington Treaty of 1870.Crooks tried to steal Lincoln’s body to hold it for ransom

Why did Napoleon sell the Louisiana territory?

Napoleon’s main reason for selling Louisiana was that it didn’t fit in well with his goals. Napoleon’s main goal was to build a European empire, and the most good he saw in Louisiana was selling it to raise money for his conquests in Europe.Think what you would do if you were Napoleon. You want to build a European empire, and your wars have gotten costly. You’re looking for an easy way to make money. The USA comes towards you, and offers to buy the port of New Orleans. You don’t have much of a use for Louisiana since the real American prize, Haiti, has been lost and all Louisiana was really good for was feeding Haiti.If you don’t sell New Orleans the USA might later try and take it by force. That would mean you’d lose Louisiana for nothing, or you’d have to send troops and spend money on protecting it, instead of sending those around Europe.So what’d be the best course of action? Try and sell all of Louisiana. You don’t have much of a use for it, and it looks like you’ll lose it in the long run anyways. Why not sell it now, and use the money you get from that to spend it on something you really want? Between that and at best losing Louisiana for nothing it’d be in your best interests to sell it.

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