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… As we celebrate the 71st birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., on Jan. 15 and Congress considers a Library of …

… This lesson will examine Gavrilo Princip and his infamous assassination, often cited as the start to WW1. Students … for them. The essential question they are going to be asking is, “Was Gavrilo Princip a heroic rebel fighting for … and be prepared to present on their findings, as well as taking a stand. Instructional Strategies: Think-Pair-Share …

… today, Westminster was then the coronation hall of English kings, while Saint-Denis served as the chief mausoleum for … not quite what it set out to become, it is a thought-provoking work. Too often historians have viewed the great abbeys … … Christianity … France … Medieval … To Serve God and the King? …

… collected in China, Russia, United States, and United Kingdom. Autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, oral narratives, … rules, and centrality continue to influence Chinese thinking about their international relationships. However, these … Relations … Colonialism/Imperialism … Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle …

… just when it seems to be at its weakest, sometimes even taking bellicose action against the West while at the very … the vessel and attempted to infiltrate the South, sparking firefights that left 24 North Koreans and 14 South … lie the key to understanding the policies of the Hermit Kingdom. These new materials suggest that two related forces …

… and authorities in Afghanistan; the horrors of the Saudi assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; the US government’s … overview of the long-ruling and highly influential Islamic kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula. In Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain , Catlos …

… Berlusconi has toyed with divestment, blind trusts and parking his assets with fellow media magnates Rupert Murdoch … genius, the playwright Luigi Pirandello said, lay in making the passage from the stage to the mass media. Master of … … Economics/Business/Trade … A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again) …

… On August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in … Field. The victor, Henry Tudor, was promptly crowned King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509).   This battle was one of the … (c.1564-1616). Shakespeare painted a pitiful scene of King Richard’s demise. Richard is left wandering a field …

… King John (r. 1199-1216) in a thirteenth-century portrait. … was in civil war as disaffected barons took up arms against King John (reigned 1199-1216). John’s reign had been marked … abusing royal power. When the rebel barons seized London, King John was forced to capitulate to their demands. Meeting …

… foggy morning of January 21, 1793—225 years ago—French King Louis XVI made the hour and a half journey through the … for his execution was assembled. Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the … “widow's window,” and was executed. The execution of the king by his people was a transformative moment in European …

… 27, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II of England briefly met with Martin McGuiness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland … and Martin McGuiness shake hands, June 27, 2012. Before making the turn to politics, McGuiness was a leader of the … fought a low-level war characterized by ambush and assassination. Irish General election results map, 1918. In …

… In his recent book, Armada, (co-authored with Colin Martin), Parker draws on archives from around the world and … smelled; and what happened when they finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which … than learning the birth and death dates of even Martin Luther. Oh, I'm probably going to be struck down for that …

… fictional character, the middle-aged patriot-hunk Benjamin Martin. It is one of the film’s better lines, encapsulating … of Independence. We witness repeated bloody clashes between Martin’s grassroots guerrilla militia and Cornwallis’s … by Parliament and, the Patriots ultimately concluded, the King himself. The colonists, this ideology warned, were on …

… 1962, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation, making it the first sovereign English-speaking country in the Caribbean. The tremendous victory of … Association (UNIA) and African Communities League in Kingston in 1914. Though Garvey was not elected to public …

… in structure, Part Two addresses the role that Martin Luther’s struggle against Papal authority played in the … of the Monasteries in the 1530s. Hans Holbein's portrait of King Henry VIII (1536) Henry’s Reformation and his new role …

… Northern Ireland were and remain legally part of the United Kingdom, separated from the Republic of Ireland in 1922 in … of whom felt a strong sense of allegiance toward the United Kingdom. Known as Unionists, they monopolized political and … the election of a seven-man Army Council—Joe Cahill, Leo Martin, Paddy Mulcahy, Sean MacStiofain, Ruari O’Bradaigh, …

… year lease in Bankside, the prestigious royal patronage of King James I as the company became the King’s Men, and Shakespeare’s esteemed literary reputation, … catastrophe in a letter dated two days after the fire: The King’s players had a new play, called All Is True, …

… advice. Instead, he picked the Sunni Faisal bin Hussein, king of Syria and a supporter of the British, to be Iraq’s constitutional monarch. Once in office, King Faisal denounced British domination and proclaimed … Such are the consequences of ignoring history when making present policy. We should leave, and we should leave …

… playing. They share in leisurely activities ranging from taking neighborhood strolls to visiting pet stores. Their … is a recent role reversal. In the past, most dogs were working animals; they earned their keep by working for humans.  The moment when this all started to change …

… During the Hundred Years War, England's King Henry V also laid claim to the crown of France, and to … the way that coronation was a "spiritual event" for the king; finally, Barker announces that the English army at … … within the chain of command that led directly to the king himself," to be of equal value with the shared hardship …

… who enlisted his support to test public opinion before making a definitive commitment to independence himself. Paine … symbol of the British monarchy] on the throne?” Depicting King George III as a tyrant, as a co-conspirator with … American colonists, Paine likened the monarch to a “father-king” who relished his children, the Americans, as his main …