The word âHolocaustâ originates from the Greek term holokauston. The word is broken up into two roots: holos, meaning whole, and kaustos, meaning burn. The word etymologically transcended via late Latin, into Old French (holocauste), and eventuall...
The Islamic Republic of Iran changed SAVAK to SAVAMA. It was run after the revolution, according to U.S. sources and Iranian exile sources in the US and in Paris, by Gen. Hossein Fardoust, who was deputy chief of SAVAK under the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a friend from boyhood of the deposed monarch.
The decline of the Qing Dynasty was started in the middle of the Chien Lung reign. The Qing Dynasty had experienced a very prosperous period. But at the middle of the Chien Lung years, there were both internal problems and external invasion. And letâs see how these problems became the symptoms of the decline of this formerly great country.