/PRNewswire/ Nearly all (94%) of American adults admit to spending impulsively, with purchases like dining out (55%) and clothing/shoes (53%), being among.
Battle of Karbala, brief military engagement in which a small party led by the grandson of Muhammad, al-Husayn ibn Ali, was defeated and massacred by an Umayyad army. The battle helped secure the position of the Umayyad dynasty, but it is commemorated annually in a holy day of public mourning by Shii Muslims.