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You're likely to enjoy other cartoony, comedic adventures that incorporate elements of history and globe-trotting. Here are a few suggestions.Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. This is considered by many as a seminal work of cartoon adventure. Never before has a Disney character been rendered with such depth. That's not meant as a back-handed compliment, but there you have it. Rosa brings something novel to Disney: continuity. His tales add insight to works by the famous Carl Barks and act as a great introduction to the character. This can be thought of as a recommendation for Rosa and Barks in general, as both write Scrooge as an adventure character. The cartoon series Duck Tales was loosely based on Barks' old stories but with some of the charm and intelligence stripped away.Jeff Smith's Bone. Here's another funny adventure that found success when marketed to young adults by Scholastic but should not be counted out by adults. Bone starts with slapstick and evolves into a fantasy epic. It's relatively inexpensive to pick up in one complete, phonebook-sized volume. Unlike the other suggestions, this comic does not feature historical settings.Chris Schweizer's Crogan Adventures. Unlike the other suggestions, this comic is still being written and is gaining momentum. Starting with Crogan's Vengeance, these stand-alone tales will chronicle the history of a heroic family, one Crogan at a time. Only two volumes are out so far, with the first published in 2008. The inside of the cover shows a fairly large family tree, so we can hope to enjoy new hardcovers every year or two from now on. While all of these suggestions can be enjoyed by wide audiences, the Crogan books skew a little older because of some sword and gun-play.

Well, to be concise as much as possible, just facts, will try to elaborate each :Serbia is an old culture, one of the oldest in Europe, but still have problem to find right place.. Seems like many people are feeling ashamed for being Serbs.Now, let’s look for history facts: one of the oldest human traces in this part of the world are in Serbia, Vinca Vinča culture - WikipediaOther nations are very proud if they have similar finds…. Also, first traces of Serbian presence at Balkan peninsula dates to VII century…However, it is not a main point, just a highlight.Very interesting geographical position, like “house built on the main road”Many ancient roads were present through this territory, including Roman empire… People from western and northern Europe always looked for quick road to warm seas, like Jadran or Eagean sea. Also, river Danube is present too. So, it seems logical that many empires have had interest of ruling this territory. I see that as one of main causes for many wars and conflicts here.Serbia was under Ottoman empire for almost 500 yrs, consider that as stagnationSerbian kings were mining significant quantities of silver, copper and lead in XIII century. That had huge impact on economy. If that trend continued, many historical facts would be changed. Probably Serbia would be much richer and healthier than it is now… Also, Ottoman influence on Serbia is significant, in the means of culture and religion. Many serbian families during XIV to XVII century converted to Islam for various reasons: to keep wealth, to stay alive… However, numbers are significant. Those people are roots of nowadays Bosnian nation…Serbia never had conqueror type of conflicts, never had a colonies…Well, we have to be honest. Most of wealth, money and power in today’s most powerful countries came from other people. UK, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, all of them had many colonial dependent countries, called “Third world”. Wealth from there, like gold, diamonds, spices, silver etc, was accumulated for centuries, based on semi slavery labor. Now, when someone is a bandit for 500 years… You got the point. Similar is with USA hegemony, they have their “national interests” to be protected in every part of the world… “Modus operandi” is changed trough centuries, but substance never changed… So yes, one of the reasons we are modestly poor country, agree.Serbia went through many wars in last 200 years (many in XIX century, 2 WWars, 2 Balkan’s wars, then 1991–95, after that NATO aggression in 1999)In WW1, Serbia had 1,1 million of war victims and 1,25 mil of wounded!In WW2, similar figures… All that in a period of less than 30 years!Imagine simple comparision of family trees of one common Serb and one common Swiss or Swedish citizen. In Serbian tree, almost every node/generation in last 200 years had some sacrifice/victim of war. Other two (Swiss/Swedish), it’s not so common to them…. Also, imagine to build family house 4 or 6 times in one century! That happened to many people here… So, it is not so strange we are not rich country. Wealth needs to be accumulated, we didn’t had a chance for that…UN sanctions in 1990’s.. Nobody mentioned that, except that country was devastated by Milosevic’s economy… But honestly, nobody could manage those years. Milosevic is not important in that process. Every other politician on his place would go through similar agony. Also, look for headlines of many newspapers from that time: they called him “Prince of Balkan” and “ piece and stability factor”… After Dayton treaty, he became Balkan’s slaughterer… So everything is a game of big players….Only 1999 bombing made damage between 30 and 100 billion dollars (different sources, truth is somewhere in the middle)This is related to banditism mentioned in point 4. It was orchestrated crime. Similar recipe happened before with Iraq and later, with WTC and 9/11. Bin Laden was firstly american “baby” …So what was the interest in that time on this territory? They took so much care about Kosovo? No. Two years later, on Kosovo, US built one of the largest NATO military bases in Europe, called Bondstil. Piece of cake to control circle of 1000 miles in radius…. Also, destroyed Serbia urgently needed investments and money to come in.In period from 2003 till 2013, period of “transition to capitalism” made similar damage, due to bad privatization process of many many companies. This is next chapter: after bombing, Serbia sold everything that could be sold, mostly for bargain… All that money gone with a wind, to refund credits/loans, to rise salaries, but almost nothing was invested … Idea was to keep social peace… Also, many new tycoons were “born” overnight, similar to Russia in 1990’s… /that is the one more reason why Serbia is poor…Serbia is not using more than 15 % of it’s resources. True. So many sources of clear water. Beautiful nature, but we don’t care. So many spa resources. Mountains, skiing centers. So much fertile land. But we are not using it. Human resources, the most important… Next point:We are not so highly educated nation, according to European statistics. However, export of IT services from Serbia last year was awesome, comparing to previous year… Growing constantly.We had old “scholastic” education system for almost 50 years, which gave wide and broad knowledge and good ground for further steps and learning. In that “dark age of socialism”, former YU had many interesting projects:- 5–6 models of personal computers designed and built in YU- developed our own airplane for army- developed our own battle tank, made 100 % in YU- our companies were building across the whole Middle East region, Africa, Russia etc..very modern projects in that time- Our industry of that time had many modern projects, inventions and plans for future…- Export of military goods per year was about 2 to 4 billion $, in that time (80s) it was huge money. We were not so poor in 80’s. All countries of Eastern alliance/block were much much poorer.Regarding education, during last 10 years, many things changed to worse. Kids are not learning to have analytic mindset, facts in books of history are changing constantly…However, thanks to positive side of globalisation, WWW and flow of free knowledge, many young people are positively “infected” with good vibe and they want to change their lives to better. That is what I see…We are poor compared to many other countries in EU, but not so poor as displayed in statistic reports. Come here and see, you’ll be surprised with buildings, roads, new cars (speaking about few major cities in Serbia)…

The answer depends heavily on what your first language is. For someone whose L1 is English, Spanish will be far easier to learn than Japanese.For someone whose first language is Korean, Japanese would be far easier. Take a look at a language family tree. I can’t find my favorite one tonight but this one from Scholastic should give you some idea. Language trees poster Find your first language on that tree and see which language is closer. Note that Japanese is a tiny little tree brushing up against Korean, where Spanish is on one branch of the Latin branch of the Indo-European tree.Too technical? Basically Japanese bears only a passing resemblance to any other language at all, and Spanish is related to many of the languages of Europe. From a linguistic point of view, Spanish would be the easier language to learn.However, from an educator’s point of view it’s not that clear cut. Motivation is probably the single biggest factor in learning a language in my not so humble opinion. I spent one year in Japan and nearly eight years in Korea, and my lack-of-mastery of both languages is about equal. Why? I have/had a crush on a Japanese actor, so I got a thrill out of hearing him speak Japanese. Japanese sounds are easier for me to hear and understand, sure, but my heart went pitter-patter when I heard Japanese in a way that Korean just didn’t. And in learning, that does matter.So the answer to your question is—what does your heart say?