1. In March 1920 the US Senate finally killed the treaty. The United States did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles and we did not join the League of Nations. Wilson considered this a great failure and it plagued him until his death. Disgust was deepening.
Part of the Peripherals glossary: An abacus is a manual aid to calculating that consists of beads or disks that can be moved up and down on a series of sticks or strings within a usually wooden frame. The abacus itself doesn't calculate; it's simply a device for helping a human being to calculate by remembering what has been counted. The modern Chinese abacus, which is still widely used in China and other countries, dates from about 1200 A.D.
The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.he earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC. The Chinese abacus, known as the suanpan (ç®ç¤, lit. Counting tray, Mandarin suan suÃ n, Pan pÃ¡n cantonese), syun3 pun4 is typically (20 cm) 8 in tall and comes in various widths depending on. the operator