Which nation spent the greatest percent on its navy? why would it do that

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What does the term “escalation” refer to?

What ideas, institution, and causes became the focal points of chinese and islamic resistance respectively to the west in the latter half of 19th century and the first decades of the 20th