School children study World War II, but they usually learn about the evacuations and the Blitz, which affected many millions.
Why is it that after all our ability to study world history and human behavior in the many schools of higher learning that we have that we are so ignorant of the most obvious?
Within citizenship, pupils can study recent world conflicts, including the Balkans wars of the 1990s.
India has put into orbit seven satellites, including one built with France to study the world's oceans.
But those who study the world wide web, such as Prof Nigel Shadbolt, of Southampton University, believe the principles on which it was built are worth preserving and there is no better monument to them than the first website.
This progresses upwards with increasing complexity to the end of secondary level education - where a study of world history requires an analysis of the role of specified Russian leaders in the break-up of the Soviet Union.
These findings would not have been possible without the up-close study of this world provided by Dawn, the researchers said.
The study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) pinpointed firms in countries as diverse as Costa Rica, Egypt and China.
More than 20 million people throughout the world study Tae Kwon Do.
This followed a 1998 study by the World Health Organization that found that seven of the ten most polluted cities in the world were Chinese.
According to a recent study by the World Bank, most emerging markets that received lots of foreign money in the 1990s used such controls, with temporary success.
"At the same time we have a great offer for the brightest and best international talent who want to study at our world class institutions, " he added.
The book presents a powerful case for the essential contribution of heritage to sustainable development through the study of 26 World Heritage sites from around the world.
That means an account in either a bank, a credit union, a co-operative, post office or a microfinance institution, according to a recent study by the World Bank.
In a recent study, the World Bank calculated that in Indonesia it takes an average of 151 days to complete all the paperwork required to start a company, against 30 in Malaysia and eight in Singapore.
Britain's corporate taxes are in fact not all that high, according to a study by the World Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting firm, which looks at the percentage of earnings that companies pay overall (including labour taxes).
One independent study for the World Bank a decade ago found a surprising link between projects the bank financed and civil liberties: projects in countries with strong civil liberties had far higher rates of return than those in countries with weak traditions of liberty.
To elaborate, this video discusses the Rahn Curve, which augments the data in the World Bank study.
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The results are now on exhibition at New York's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
According to a recent World Bank study, large euro-area banks accounted for 36% of global trade finance in 2011.
That assessment would answer a basic question: Does the city have talent in any field of study that leads the world?
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Oxford and Cambridge universities are the best places in the world to study seven key academic subjects, according to a new international table.
According to a recent world economic study, about 10 million manufacturing jobs worldwide are going begging because of a lack of skilled workers.
Astonishingly, it can be cheaper to ship goods to the United States from China than from Central America, according to a World Bank study.
We also need to do something about all the students who come here from around the world to study but we then send home once they graduate.
So says a recent World Bank study, which found that federal employees earned about 30% more and those of the courts and Congress 50% more than their private-sector counterparts.
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This study looked at the world as a whole, but the scientists say that it does show that the "digital divide" between rich and poor countries is growing.
Now, having failed to build a decent education system, it has accumulated between 10, 000 and 40, 000 madrassas up to 20% of which, according to a World Bank study, teach fighting skills.
One consequence of Haiti's poverty trap is that 84% of Haitians with more than a secondary education lived abroad in 2000, according to a study cited by the World Bank.
Oxford was judged the best place in the world to study English, while Cambridge came second, ahead of eight US universities that took the rest of the places in the global top ten.
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