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The petrodollar system emerged in the aftermath of two simultaneous shocks: the 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods gold-dollar exchange standard and the 1973–74 Arab oil embargo triggered by the Arab-Israeli war.

The "resource curse" describes a well-documented pattern in which countries endowed with abundant extractable natural resources—oil, gas, minerals, diamonds—frequently exhibit weaker institutional development and slower economic growth than resource-poor counterparts.

On November 6, 2026, at approximately 8:30–8:37 p.m., a Ring doorbell camera at an off-campus apartment captured two white University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) students making monkey-like gestures and chest-beating sounds outside the door of three Black students — freshmen Jakiyra Metcalf, Kaiyden Caldwell, and Victoria Johnson. A third white woman was also reportedly present.

On November 12, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Clarity Pharmaceuticals' Cu-64 SAR-bisPSMA, making it the first PSMA PET imaging agent ever to receive that designation. Clarity Pharmaceuticals is an Australian clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company listed on the ASX under the ticker CU6.

Before radiocarbon dating, archaeologists reconstructed chronologies through written records, king lists, coins, typological sequences, and stratigraphic layering — the principle that deeper deposits are older.

The surviving written historical record is structurally uneven: it disproportionately reflects people and institutions that possessed literacy, wealth, authority, and archival power. Clergy produced sermons, chronicles, and church registers; rulers issued laws and administrative records; merchants kept contracts and account books.

Monarchies and republics represent fundamentally different institutional solutions to the problem of political succession—the transfer of power from one leader to the next. Hereditary monarchies concentrate succession in a ruling family, creating predictable lines of transition but concentrating enormous risk in individual capability.

Control of long-distance trade routes — the Silk Road, spice routes, and trans-Saharan caravan paths — was a primary mechanism by which pre-modern cities and empires accumulated capital, funded armies, and built administrative infrastructure.

Before the mid-fifteenth century, European texts were reproduced almost exclusively by scribes working within monasteries, universities, royal chanceries, and courts.

Oprah's Favorite Things 2026, revealed exclusively through USA TODAY on November 12, 2026, marks the 30th anniversary of the annual holiday gift guide. The 2026 edition features 79 products — a reduction from 112 items in 2025 — spanning categories including clothing, food, beauty, technology, outdoor equipment, and home goods.