In 1950 'total recorded crime' in England and Wales stood at 461350 incidents; fifty years later in 2001, that number had risen to 5,525,024 - greater than eleven-fold increase. - Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,260
In 1803 the United States simply bought control of the entire Louisiana Territory form France.....At the stroke of a pen; and the handing over of $15 million, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the size of the USA ...Henry Adams wrote, 'Never did the United States get so much for so little.' - -Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography, p. 70
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