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… for schools, infrastructure, arts, and health care. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth meet with Nakoda …

… and children. Meanwhile, Morsi has been charged with provoking violence in the streets of Egypt in the lead-up to the … has precedent in the region’s recent past. Historically speaking, the harder states clamp down on the activities of … and 1960s, Anwar Sadat’s “autumn of fury” and subsequent assassination in 1981, and the Mubarak regime’s suppression …

… help explain these economic and social successes? Seeking answers to these questions, sociologists have studied … island has been part of some larger entity, including: the kingdom of Srivijaya (modern day Sumatra, seventh to 13th century), the kingdom of Sukothai (modern-day Thailand, late 14th …

… President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled the country since taking office in a 1989 military coup. Originally a response … Chicago and a specialist on the Sudan. He is currently working on a new book on the history of Islam in Lusophone … civilization of Nubia, and you also have three Christian kingdoms that existed in the country just before the arrival …

… to move beyond racism to save themselves and humanity?  King Kong asks if humans can curb their greed and learn to … numerous and varied.  For every time-tested classic like King Kong or Superman , he has found a more obscure essay in …

… for the pope’s jurisdiction over all men, even emperors and kings—also produced riots in local towns in response to the … the familial nature of the connection between many of the kings and powerful nobles throughout Europe but then fails … and who actively shaped the parameters of discussion is shockingly modern, and in that vein Whalen’s book finds its …

… of colonialism, this may not seem like a particularly shocking statement. But in France the image of a presidential candidate making such a declaration in the capital of a former colony … city than Nice (which was annexed by Napoleon III from the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860). When the Algerian War for …

… a group of African American college students was a breathtakingly obtuse misunderstanding of the role the federal … dramatically – and he did so on the 47 th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington . Beck was shamelessly …

… things have to change. We must confront our colonial thinking and attitudes and redefine what Canadian-ness means. We … Nations in 1869 ( middle ).  Nakoda chieftains meeting with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II in Calgary in 1939 ( … as those laid out in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 (working out the details of the peace at the end of the Seven …

… and elsewhere. The violence associated with the trafficking of illicit narcotics and stimulants continues to stoke … such a great cost both in money and human lives. The trafficking of illicit drugs is a signature Latin American … unleashed a crackdown on the Medellín cartel following the assassination, which forced Escobar and the Ochoa brothers …

… the  Nile and the Sudan.  After the fall of the Christian kingdom of Nubia in the 14th century, they migrated south to …

… above Havana bay, a landmark for tourists and travelers. Looking up at the Cuban flag fluttering over its turrets, I … Communist government has led to many regrettable results: assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, leader of … the U.S. imposed a financial and economic embargo, blocking the import or export of almost all goods between the …

… elections, as well as their personnel — generals, soldiers, kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about all the …   The official men of the government did not know that working together would be the salvation of the bipartisan … and finally see it as her lasting gift to the nation. By making politics a party to which everyone is invited, Dolley …

… supply-side energy policy reigns and fossil fuel is still King. Not since the 1950s, when President Dwight D. … in Silicon Valley, is the author of "Energy and the Making of Modern California" (1997) and a writer for the …

… wartime conditions, they did a play about the murder of a king and the ensuing chaos and devastation, painfully …

… these two statements, from citizens of the English-speaking country that gave us the concept of a welfare state, … in varying degrees throughout Western Europe and the United Kingdom, provided a variety of subsidized social services to … cutting and, to a lesser extent, privatization are striking at welfare-state systems in general, what is happening …

… On January 21, 1793, French King Louis XVI made the hour and a half journey through the …

… (2003) , hallmarks of Western capitalism such as Burger King and Coca-Cola quickly became ubiquitous in the formerly … that is highly reminiscent of Cold War rhetoric. Evoking John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” …

… WOSU's website ]  Mitchell Lerner's work with Origins : Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age … Connecting …

… relationships and intricacies of this problem in Charles King's piece in the  New York Times's  "Opinion Pages." with …

… with more obscure ones. Leonidas, the doomed Spartan king who stood at Thermopylae, and Themistocles, the hero of … in the ancient Greek world generally consisted of picking the battlefield and deploying one’s forces, although … mindsets. The results, while more cautious than groundbreaking, provide a deep insight into the Greek psyche and also …

… recent post : “From the start, this was about more than talking about whether or not the games we play are accurate or …