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… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … for this was very much, oh, so a war that was fought on credit. And initially the credit for fighting, this war came …

… administration has created a situation in which anything less than the invasion, defeat and occupation of Iraq will … There is the same whiff of hysteria about prospects for the future that one finds in current administration … the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its …

… kill a gorilla who had done nothing wrong. Still others posited that the wrongdoing lay not with any particulars, but … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a … the incident. Yet the history of zoogoing points us toward future possibilities. How might a zoogoer attempt to walk …

… in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left … Dissatisfied with the economic situation and a discredited political establishment, voters opted for the … ratings in Venezuela from 1998 to 2013. Lessons for the Future Venezuela’s misfortune offers a number of lessons. …

… September 1959 Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the Soviet Union , arrived in … in the Iowa heartland where he toured agricultural sites and in Pittsburgh to see industrial sites, and his … a stevedore’s cap in San Francisco, or simply of words, assuring people he met that what he and the Soviet Union …

… aspect of society and allowed the Mayans to dominate the surrounding region in the first millennium C.E. We do not … Walking through Chichén Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear … deity: man, bird, and snake. He can be seen engraved on temples and walls in Chichén Itzá but he can also be heard. If …

… of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … was in opposition to France’s decision to put up Algeria’s future to a vote that the OAS launched a last-ditch scorched … the issue of the destruction of cultural and intellectual sites in wartime is by no means resolved.  Recent United …

… perceive that reality. In so doing the words we use also become a part of the world we are trying to understand. One … and "Islamo-fascism/ist." Take these examples: In February 2008, the Ottawa Herald —a newspaper in … and foe alike, to see how we are going to react to the pressure they are going to put on us." John McCain's …

… were tied to fears over deforestation, or sometimes the opposite, actually hoping to moderate the climate, changing the … made back into the 1890s. The first scientist who's really credited with recognizing that it was happening is often a … us on climate change historically, and the present and the future?   Dr. John Brooke  We need to act. There's my …

… Join Ellen Arnold to learn about the many different roles that penguins took on as Europeans first began to … Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … where such encounters happened were a group of nesting sites, quickly named by the sailors, the Penguin Islands. …

… armies fighting short, decisive campaigns on land as the future of British strategy. Corbett sought to dispel this … strategic priorities. Corbett disavowed continental commitment and mass armies, believing Britain should instead … committed a mass conscript army to the continent, the opposite of Corbett’s vision. The result for Britain was the …

… be neglected by state and local health systems, or become—in World War I-era parlance—“public charges.” Alongside … compensation payments—put forth estimates of massive future need. Approximately 640,000 of the 4.3 million men … Robert Luce, and Paul Ryan—tended to see it in the opposite light: government aid was something to be earned, a …

… drug policy, which only lasted for about 18 months. But credit where it's due. He's the only president to send equal … for Harry Anslinger was that the truth was exactly the opposite: it was Chiang Kai-Shek’s allies who were trafficking … panicked over this new threat to the nation's children and future, as it was framed by the American policymakers. …

… as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the institutionalization of May 18 as a democratic milestone, the event continues to resist any singular … also a collective, community-driven revolt against the absurdity of a military that turned its weapons on its own …

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC site and the surrounding villages have merged into one of the four …

… poetry on Maidan. Serhii was featured in books, articles, and films, not just because of his constant presence at … why he came to the protests, he said, “It’s also my future. I live in this country.” Serhii was killed by four … January 22.   Serhii Kemsky also had a vision of Ukraine’s future. Born in Crimea , he studied political science in the …

… Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … of Guernica evokes outrage and horror, in no small measure due to the painting of that name by the artist Pablo … of war itself, and of the atrocities that continue to be visited upon civilian populations in the form of aerial …

… In preparation for hosting an upcoming summit of Arab heads of state, Saudi Arabian Crown … opportunity to attack Israel and desecrate Jewish religious sites. For 19 years after Israel became a state in 1948 the … would not be a problem if Israel would only enable the Palestinians to establish their own state in the Gaza Strip …

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … National Consumers League (NCL), disagreed. She enlisted future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis to argue the … but most people, historians and activists alike, agree that credit or blame, depending on whom you ask, belongs to …

… plays Sgt. Don “Wardaddy” Collier—a character that more or less reprises his role from Inglourious Basterds . The rest … their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … of local women, terrorizes some of the other civilian survivors, and shares an awkward dinner scene with two local …

… and studied during Korea’s Joseon period (1392-1897). At sites such as Sobaek Mountain, Buseoksa Temple, Sosu Seowon … in 1995 and contains many of South Korea’s national treasures such as Muryangsujeon hall, Stone Lanterns, Clay … lantern, a wood plaque reads “Muryangsujeon (無量壽殿)” and welcomes all comers (right). The founder of the Buseoksa …

… I battlefields to reconnect with their loved ones. Others visited the tombs of the unknown warriors, under the Arc de … relationships. The war also was financed almost entirely on credit, through the issuance of short-term treasury bills … helping to solidify U.S. economic primacy in the future.  A 1917 poster asking for “Peace through victory” …

… reforms, civil reconstruction, protection of heritage sites, and financial reform. Peacekeeping missions became … of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men by Bosnian Serbs discredited UNPROFOR and disgraced the international community. … humanitarian relief and peacekeeping operations. The Future of United Nations Peacekeeping In the nearly two …