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May 3 - Over 133,000 in Burma/Burma were killed by Cyclone Nargis, the deadliest natural disaster since the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004.
May 10 - Burma/Burma held a constitutional referendum.
May 14 - NASA announced the discovery of Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3
May 15 - An oil pipeline exploded in Ijegun, Nigeria, killing 100.
May 23 - The Union of South American Nations, a supranational union, was created by a union between the Andean Community and Mercosur.
May 23 - The International Court of Justice awarded Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
May 25 - The NASA's Phoenix spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land on the northern polar-region of Mars.
May 28 - The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal was established after the Assembly voted overwhemingly in favor of abolishing the country's 240-year-old monarchy. Girija Prasad Koirala became temporary Head of state.
Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology may have useful connections.
Personal studies including human body, psychology, and biography will also be connected.
Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected.
Events related to material, conceptual, and behavioral culture can be connected.
Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families may be useful.
Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools may be useful.
Economics including activities, industries, and economic systems will be significant.
Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law may be useful. Government activity such as administration, succession, and interstate relations will be vital. Government structure including political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, and forms of government will be useful. Particular governments including local governments will be of great interest. National governments will probably have the greatest amount of attention.
International governments is also useful. Traditional empires and colonial empires are not considered, but modern compacts are important.
Religion including religious belief, practice, and organization will be useful even if not highly visible. Particular religions including pagan religion, Asiatic religion, Abrahamic religion, and secularism will be useful.
Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be connected. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be connected. Social change including social change factors and social change processes are also useful. Particular changes are mostly those continuing from the Industrial revolution.
Communities such as Cairo, Calcutta are being distributed to the particular peoples involved.
Peoples of the world are important. These are being examined using nations [such as Yemen, Australia]
Western civilization including Venezuela, is important. Cities include Los Angeles.
This is connected to Anglic peoples including the Canada. Cities include New York City.
United States I have no details on events in the United States except a couple of astronomical discoveries announced by NASA.
Latin peoples including those of Peru have important events associated with them. Cities include Sao Paulo.
Brazil I have no events recorded for this month.
Mexico City has no events for this month.
Northeast european peoples including those of Poland are important.
Germanic peoples including those of Germany are important.
Asiatic peoples such as, for instance, those of Romania and cities such as Osaka can be considered.
Peoples of the Middle East such as those of Iraq are highly important in world affairs.
South Asian peoples Nepal, can be considered. Cities such as Delhi can be examined.
May 13 - A series of bomb blasts killed at least 63 and injured 216 in Jaipur, India.
Bombay has no events associated with it.
Central Asian peoples include some peoples found in China, Russia, Uzbekistan.
Oriental peoples include some peoples of Taiwan. Cities such as Shanghai
May 12 - Over 69,000 were killed in central China by an earthquake measuring 8.0Mw. The epicenter was 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of Chengdu.
South Korea, city of Seoul
Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Malaysia can also be examined. Cities include Jakarta
African peoples such as those of Ghana have various events associated with them.
Ethiopia No events are yet recorded.
American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Canada, Peru, and Venezuela can be considered.
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This is only weakly connected to other periods of history through classical and medieval times. It is also weakly connected to modern history through the 19th century. This is also connected weakly to the 20th century through the late 20th century. In the early 21st century, the early 2000s affect this somewhat. This is weakly connected to 2006. It is weakly connected to most of 2007. This is preceded by the first quarter 2008. This month is preceded by April 2008. is followed it is followed by June 2008 and by the third quarter 2008. It is less directly connected to the future, especially the near future including next month (Remainder of December and January 2008), next quarter, and next year, and to the middle future, and far future. |
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