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… perish in the conflagration that consumed the city, or die from the radiation that fell darkly to the earth in a … its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a … though he was predominantly focused on American lives. His commanders predicted upwards of half a million American …

… birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … mystery, gold, and enchantment. Later ancient and medieval romantic depictions of the East would be based on … not to be his, since he is merely a mortal man, doomed to die despite all his worldly power. The book concludes with a …

… expands our list of enemies and defines any potential competitor as a mortal threat. The national insecurity state … insecurity. Though the Cold War is long over, it is still easy to feel that we are in an endless “age of peril.” In … is enough. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… figure in Anglo-Norman society, admired by both nobles and commoners for his wealth, charm, and decisiveness.  Stephen … on Empress Matilda’s absence in Normandy when Henry I died. With support from Londoners and the Church—secured … lands, and Henry would succeed to the throne.  Stephen died in October 1154, buried next to Queen Matilda at …

… and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … Kennedy to move away from seeing foreign policy as a tough competitive game. He came to appreciate the human stakes … future. And we are all mortal.” Kennedy’s speech was accompanied by actions that led to the first major break in …

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … with Mexico. It translates: "I thought that it would be easy for my son to get papers [e.g. legal status/work … as a part of the Bracero Program, 1954. The British West Indies’ complementary Temporary Foreign Worker Program ran …

… in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … Beginning: Independence and Partition Salmon Rushdie has famously described Pakistan as “a place … … the head of state, Governor-General, of Pakistan. But he died the following year leaving a power vacuum. The …

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … Romanians under the Voivode Mihai the Brave. Bălcescu, a soldier, historian, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian … themselves as part of a Romanian nation.  A Moldavian medieval chronicler, Miron Costin, described Mihai’s reign as …

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … for those living in the cities and resulting in fatal outcomes for migrants in transit.   OHL presents a critical … Accordingly, Operation Gatekeeper was launched at the San Diego-Tijuana corridor in 1994, Operation Safeguard at the …

… and Iraq and build new state structures there on the cheap? In the short run, of course, the decision to skimp on … the Bush administration has put the lives of U.S. soldiers at risk and imperiled America’s long-term national … years after World War II, not a single U.S. soldier died in combat either in Germany or in Japan — in sharp contrast to …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …

… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … as did the 1918 Spanish Flu and the even more deadly medieval Black Death . These diseases, including our current … acquisitiveness even tends to undercut these goals. Studies in the field of Positive Psychology point to the good …

… that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … the year since Morsi’s overthrow, an estimated 1,400 have died as a result of political violence, many of them Ikhwān … more moderate Islamist forces. An estimated 1,600 people died during this period. The Al-Sisi Presidency and Islam in …

… countries experienced food riots. "Hunger seasons" have become the norm in many parts of the global south, and women … invariably generates a shift to a more "western" style diet, which involves rising meat consumption, which in turn … With the advent of the railway and steamship, it became cheaper to grow wheat in Montana or the Canadian prairies …

… over the trajectory of the on-going American military commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan has combined with … in the Philippines. So let us turn to several case studies to explore these issues more closely. Vietnam The story … a significant number of Khymer who, as we now know, would die at the hands of the Khymer Rouge. France and Algeria Our …

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, … of World War I." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State …

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … Corporation (TSMC) manufactures over 90 percent of the smallest and most advanced semiconductor chips are … and vocal age of open demonstrations. Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975. Faced with a revolting society led by the …

… could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, … and sought to sustain its war effort. Here, one of the shadier characters in this sordid drama emerged: Manucher … (83). All of this came tumbling down when a Nicaraguan soldier shot down a Contra resupply plane in October of 1986. …

… From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the … Seeking answers to these questions, sociologists have studied Singapore’s demographic policies, social control … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with …

… pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come. •  Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the …

… loud chanting and shouting. Toyota pick-ups raced about, soldiers and police hanging precariously off the sides and … starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the … most scenes, but cameras caught burning vehicles, bloodied protesters, security forces running down streets with …

… a secular allegory for that moral lesson. The other two committee members proposed images that drew on Old Testament … captured the principle that “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.” Thomas Jefferson, who later created his own … and Form of Government We have assumed.” Of all of his accomplishments, Jefferson selected just three for his …

… and they will conjure up images of beleaguered Red Army soldiers at Stalingrad , the mechanized carnage of the tank … order and provide readers bite-sized analyses of complex political, social, and military affairs. For … in 1939. A meeting in Brest between German and Soviet soldiers on September 22nd, 1939. Following the invasion of …