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… The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated … disarmament and other pledges made in the NPT. Ignoring the commitments made by his Democratic and Republican … “usable” nuclear weapons. Given this repudiation of NPT commitments, it’s not surprising that North Korea has pulled …

… rights issues, others Chinese foreign policy, but the most common rhetorical barbs tie back to trade and currency. This … the founding of the United States, merchants, government officials, economists and journalists pondered how to … else in its cargo: more than 20,000 Spanish silver coins. The goods the Americans were bringing would not be …

… attacks on alleged class enemies, the toppling of Party officials high and low, and the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … is but one officially designed Cultural Revolution historic site, a graveyard in the city of Chongqing where Red Guards …

… March 3, 1857 marked the unofficial beginning of the so-called Second Opium War (officially 1856-1860). …

… earlier, five police officers and a towering female health official had shown up, unannounced, demanding that Mallon, a … tested and found to be full of typhoid bacilli.  Mallon had committed no crime. She had been unaware of her carrier … public support for Mallon’s plight.  When a new health commissioner took office in 1910, he decided to release her …

… in March 1990 and a low of -7 percent in February 1954 Officially, the inflation rate was recorded at 14.80 percent … where tourists and porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) come to exchange currency. As one walks the streets, the … district—a block from the presidential house—became the site of intense violence. Responding angrily to the quota, …

… some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … civilians and American soldiers, and inconclusive in outcome. The 2003 U.S. military invasion of Iraq and the … and 1930s, U.S. diplomats generally deferred to British officials, who managed Iraq as a League of Nations mandate, …

… by any other intelligence agency,” especially as telecommunication technology advances. Perhaps surprisingly, … It was made instead in the 1970s by the Senate’s Church Committee when it held hearings on the activities of the … Surveillance Court offered them. One NSA program, unofficially called 215, collected metadata from U.S. …

… Soviet Union’s approach to HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s—how officials initially blamed foreign nations for the virus and denied the possibility of extensive community spread among the Soviet population—offers a … official number had grown to around 565. An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987. The number of infected was initially …

… April 24, 2015 marks the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the Armenian … in 1915 in the midst of the strains of World War I, Ottoman officials oversaw the deportation and massacre of anywhere … The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities that had lived in the Anatolian peninsula for …

… Belgium's plans to make a special-edition euro coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Belgium still … the larger Napoleonic legacy remain in France. Present day site of the Battle of Waterloo. Many cherished French … that allows individual nations to unilaterally produce coins of irregular denominations. 70,000 2½ euro coins were …

… began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … of how cholera spread led many public health officials to search the slums of London for odd smells and … interventions. However, the response of most states was a combination of both methods. They tended to be pluralistic, …

… of “our hemisphere” in the possessive sense, at other times officials recognized a shared, collective sense of “our … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … and Secretaries of State but also newspapermen and common citizens effused sympathy for the revolutionaries’ …

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … all the ways that power works than people excluded from its official halls: people of color, and women of all classes … of a first lady. She was the first wife of a president to command the unofficial sphere of power. During her tenure, …

… global food crisis. Many Indian journalists and government officials instead linked the spike in food prices to … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across the subcontinent, Company officials pronounced that large and expanding …

… 29, 2012, newly appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping gave a speech that would … lynchpin in Xi’s ideological platform. On November 30, the official party organ, People’s Daily , printed a laudatory … can be heard on Dragon TV; and state-sponsored websites devoted to the China Dream litter the Internet. The …

… abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too fond of imposing … It should just encourage us to refrain from condescendingly comparing China to the United States. Here's my alternative: …

… discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on a person’s sexual orientation or … to make the lives of LGBTQ fairer and safer, many local officials have supported them for reasons that sometimes … Cincinnati City Hall as it appears today. When Florida visited Cincinnati in 2002, he mocked the city for the fact …

… out a specific sequence of rituals at a constellation of sites, recalling activities of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam’s … safety, and how much states should subsidize the ritual—is complicated. In many countries, demand for hajj visas … its citizens on the ground in Saudi Arabia. Despite being officially secular, the French government posts a consul in …

… On April 24, 2015, much of the world will commemorate the centennial of one of the most highly … through what we now know were its last years, Turkish officials oversaw the deportation and massacre of anywhere … The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities that had lived in the Anatolian peninsula for …

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the Justice Department and the Department of … chads, and the partisanship of Florida’s top election official, Secretary of State Katharine Harris — seemed to demonstrate that state or local officials no longer were competent to oversee elections. Yet four years later, little …

… of independence. And, for many, knowing where your food comes from, intimately, down to the moisture of the soil, … matter. The quality of panic is palpable in the 1986 official correspondence. There were not enough people … the accident is piling up, awaiting a final nuclear storage site. Likewise in limbo, over 100,000 evacuees in temporary …

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … became a global buzz phrase. Commentators and public officials—like Dominque Strauss-Kahn, the head of the … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …

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