Social Science Questions & Answers

RBI Baseball is a baseball video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was produced by Tengen and originally released in 1987. The roots for RBI Baseball begin with Tengen’s controlling company, Namco. In December 1986, Namco released Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium for the Nintendo Famicom, the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The Rastafarian movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s, based on the philosophies of Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Today, it has branched out, including groups that still hold Garvey’s beliefs and groups that have disavowed his more controversial stances. His organization’s aim was to unite black people (Negroes) with their rightful homeland, Africa. He prophesied about his people being redeemed by a …

This project is associated with the study of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). From 1947 to 1969, the US Air force started working on a special project named Blue Book. It was started for investigating UFOs and whether they posed any danger to national security. But it was discontinued later because they could not gather any solid information about UFOs.

Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory about a supposed project whose purpose is to create an artificial Second Coming, in order to control people. As per the alleged theory, the new world order’s purpose is: 1. To abolish all Christian and traditional religions in order to replace them with a one-world religion based on the cult of man. 2. …

This refers to government spending intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for political support, either in the form of campaign contribution or votes. It involves funding for government programmes whose economic or service benefits are concentrated in a particular area but whose costs are spread among all taxpayers. Public projects and agricultural subsidies are the common examples. …

The term pop art is short for popular art. It emerged from the pen of English critic Lawrence Alloway in the late 1950s to describe what he viewed as a contemporary attitudinal shift in subject matter and techniques of art. Beginning in England in the mid-1950s and America in early ’60s, pop art focussed on everyday objects rendered through an …

Pixie dust is a fictional substance, that is pictorially represented as a trail of a sparkling substance that follows mythical creatures such as pixies and fairies. It’s also called fairy dust.

Philematology is the study of kissing, what it means and its place in various cultures. It is the subject of a new book ‘A Compendium of Kisses’ by Lana Citron, an actress and stand-up comic. Citron talks descriptively about the light cheek-brushing to the French smooch to the ‘olfactory kiss’ or the rubbing of noses. The study includes observations by …

Philanthropy etymologically means “the love of humanity”, in the sense of “what it is to be human”, the essence of our humanity. In modern practical terms, it is “private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of life” – balancing the social-scientific aspect emphasized in the twentieth century, with the long-traditional and original humanistic core of the word’s ancient coinage. …

Pansori is a folk art which has lasted since the 17th century in Korea. Singers sing and gesture according to the beats of the traditional Korean drum, tambour. Pansori consists of 12 episodes and is based on classical literature. It typically takes a few hours to complete a Pansori performance. Most young Koreans don’t go out to see it now. …