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… relations in the region. By 2001, Christmas had become a casualty of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israel … accommodating mainly journalists and Palestinian Authority officials, reached 50 percent capacity on December 24, … have flourished. In 2003, over 300,000 Israeli tourists visited the Turkish resort of Antalya. In 2005, despite a …

… little surprise to any knowledgeable government or military official from either nation. Joseph Grew, the American … the bay, devoid of protective torpedo nets, without combat watches on duty, and lacking accessible ammunition, … ground based anti-aircraft fire or airborne fighters, was completely ineffectual. All told the Japanese lost …

… Iraq last year, it disbanded the Iraqi army. But U.S. officials soon recognized this was a mistake and now believe … by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … in the Middle East. It will also determine the future commitment of the United States to Iraq. Maj. Gen. Paul …

… dangers they were creating. She charged public officials with being far too trusting of the chemical … by killer chemicals unwittingly unleashed by the scientific community. “Future historians may well be amazed by our … New Yorker serialized “Silent Spring,” a California reader complained to the magazine’s editor that “Miss Rachel …

… the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the … and Dole.   For instance, communities can help set up sites for summer feeding. If enough people volunteer and …

… in fact, disagreements between the Court and our elected officials are a natural and important part of our … process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … the presidents who appointed them are gone, the Court’s composition frequently lags behind the country’s political …

… Scottish missionaries, who paved the way for the launch of official colonization in Malawi in 1890s. The missionaries … showing Livingstonia as well as the previous settlement sites of Dr. Robert Laws. Laws and his disciples originally … to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The …

… years ago this Christmas eve, American and British officials signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of … ignored the bicentennial of the War itself, and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The … of inevitability. And so Americans find it difficult to come to grips with, and perhaps intentionally ignore, how …

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … host. In late spring of 2014, the finishing touches were completed on the redesign of the National Civil Rights … another firm at first and was serving as their sort of onsite historian in a bidding process, participated in their …

… this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … since the 9/11 truther movement . A 2020 ad for the upcoming Plandemic documentary U.S. government officials—including President Donald Trump —for weeks pushed …

… of conflict, and thus poses acute policy dilemmas for U.S. officials who seek to achieve stability and peace in the … In this webinar, Professor  Peter L. Hahn  analyzes the complicated situation in Gaza in its historical and …

… capabilities. And after he made a public attack on official air policies, he was court-martialed in 1925 and … to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to become the pattern for future U.S. interventions. But there is …

… different parties have gained the 20 seats necessary to become a “negotiation group”—a parliamentary caucus that holds … towards the president or the party leader, are the most common cause of this cycle of division and integration.  … its illegality, nor its decriminalization, rose to become animating factors for any party.  Lately, issues of …

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … Nixon would not be prosecuted for any crimes he might have committed. Forever afterward, Ford was dogged by charges … for Ford’s reputation to rebound. The rebound has never come. Invariably, in every poll and book and study, he is …

… 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 …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … in race music and began to provide more of these records to complement the demand. Radio DJs like Alan Freed started … the opinions of the record executive, Mitch Miller, who complained in 1958, “Much of the juvenile stuff pumped over …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared …

… dissent between Crimea's pro and anti-Russian populace is compounded by Russia's refusal to respect its border laws. … attention internationally, as European and American officials work together to decide what to make of Russian …

… law into the 21st century by lifting the ban. Behind the official ban on open gay military service lies a policy that … because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex.” Gays were seen as vulnerable to blackmail and …