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… protests in Hong Kong that have directly challenged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and yet have not been … November as the leader of the Politburo’s powerful Standing Committee. But we shouldn’t make too much of Jiang’s passing … treason and censorship laws, they point out, and many local officials seem more concerned now with pleasing the CCP …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … in Israeli society—for example, divisions over territorial compromise with the Palestinians; divisions between Jews and … roots including corruption involving Labor government officials, which coincided with a broader decline of …

… going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … Odinga to power. The Kibera school, he said, had now become a refuge for families whose homes were destroyed in the … corporations have been the bribes extorted by government officials (at one point airlines pulled out of Kenya due to …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … Petrograd garrison, which was ordered by the Tsar and his officials to break up the riots, instead mutinied and went … World War One memorial in Moscow at the, at this memorial site that also includes lots of World War Two memorials, and …

… which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … to the final frontiers — space and the virtual realm of computer technology. They have a passionate booster in … plan. They shout it out in glossy brochures and slick websites, hoping to get a bigger piece of the budgetary pie. …

… of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s separate nationhood is a … nations. With Ukrainian independence, Russia lost many sites enshrined in its historical memory, including the … Ukrainians, or “Little Russians” as they were called on the official level, came to resemble that of the Scots in the …

… to elevate them to an esteemed position in the eyes of competing Oxbridge scientists, derisive Anglican clergy, and … secured a charter by order of King Charles II in 1662 that officially made them "The Royal Society of London," labeled … began to wane, and by the century’s close meetings had become a place to present research (comparable to modern …

… But what exactly does Russia want? And how does this compare to its ambitions in the past? In this episode of … Jessica Blissit  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … sailors on board were helping in Syria, and it was retired officially after its Syrian mission and greeted with all …

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … closure of all the New York City area airports. Aviation officials saw the series of crashes as civil aviation’s … day. Two more days would pass before boats found the crash site. It took two weeks to salvage the wreck. Twenty-nine …

… hallways. Teachers gave lessons to help young students comprehend an American past with racial segregation, and how … in the Bill of Rights did not even apply to state or local officials until the 1950s. The U.S. government took little … list: Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Cleveland. All are sites of recent unrest originating in killings of unarmed …

… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Betw-een Black and -white: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations Despite the … general population. Today, while "whitening" is no longer official government policy, it continues to be expressed in …

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … and established a mint to create Khivan gold and silver coins. Khivan rulers also worked to improve the ability of …

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … laws like the one Floridians voted to eliminate. More common are states that extend disfranchisement through … occurred in other southern states . Reconstruction officials were able to protect black voting rights for a few …

… this region has also been central to Ukraine’s complex journey to define itself. In the Soviet era and in … build a national movement with those they viewed as their compatriots living in imperial Russia , rich and often … Catholic Church was not only banned, but replaced with an official Soviet-state sponsored Russian Orthodox Church and …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … emotional support of Virginia’s ban on cross-burning. The incoming governor of Georgia meanwhile ponders whether to … brought national largesse to Mississippi. In doing so, he compromised his own supposed aversion to the federal …

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear … attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … to celebrate the bomb. As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) throughout the 1960s, he was perhaps the …