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… power production — will likely represent one of the most complicated dilemmas of the twenty-first century. Speaker: … Dr. Bart Elmore   Welcome, welcome, everyone. This is so great to see everyone Hello and …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … men seem to emerge almost every day, as more and more women come forward, and many are heralding this as a new era and a …

… watching scores of young women and several young men die, combined with the awful realization that this tragedy could … They turned to the justice system, but justice was not forthcoming. Blanck and Harris were tried in criminal court for … Investigating Commission, which travelled around the state visiting factories, talking with workers and observing …

… War II in Europe. This year as in previous ones, Europeans commemorated VE (Victory in Europe) Day with a combination of somber remembrance and celebration. As we … and experienced the Nazi’s brutality. One can also visit the sites where this harrowing history took place. The …

… to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … For better or worse, we’re living in a Wal-Mart World. The company now produces an astonishing 2.3 percent of the … a place where people would want to work — and love to visit again. Bob Batchelor is the author of "The 1900s" …

… been lifted, and negotiations for a new constitution had commenced. While political violence between the ANC and … governance, and hold together the ANC when it seems to be coming apart at the seams. Some of these problems go back to … Africa in 1652 under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company to set up a station for passing ships at the Cape of …

… Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … in collaboration with the Spanish Nationalists under the command of General Francisco Franco , left little doubt that … of war itself, and of the atrocities that continue to be visited upon civilian populations in the form of aerial …

… as president of the NCN,W the organization deepened its commitment to the Civil Rights Movement, with Height joining … figures of both the Democratic and Republican National committees to form the National Women's Political Caucus. … of downtown Dayton, which drew national attention and visits from both Ohio senators and President Trump. While …

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … for energy to power Japan's rapid economic growth and the complexities of post-World War II international relations … and Three Mile Island (1979). Regardless of the outcome of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear issues …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … nor anyone else has defined what terrorism is or where it comes from. Doing so may help us to face a frightening … expect it to strike again. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… Joe Biden defendió un acuerdo fronterizo bipartidista como “el conjunto de reformas de seguridad fronteriza más … desplegar máquinas avanzadas de detección de drogas para combatir la entrada de fentanilo, responsable, según él, de … disposiciones específicas. Estas tarjetas permiten a los visitantes mexicanos permanecer en Estados Unidos hasta 72 …

… relations between the United States and Iran have been complicated and edgy as long as anyone can remember. … with local police outside the White House during the Shah's visit to Washington in late October, Carter took his guest … and urged him privately to change course. Yet when Carter visited Tehran on New Year's Eve 1977, he felt obliged to …

… structures made from this earthen material were common throughout the Andes, and they were generally … But they had to be constantly monitored and maintained by communal work parties. More importantly, “champería” dams … The great “machine” of Potosí, as seventeenth-century visitors called it, was powered by seasonal precipitation, …

… the poor’s living conditions. In Great Britain, Poor Law Commissioner Edwin Chadwick, from the miasma school, began … However, it would take another decade (and another pandemic visitation) for this discovery to be broadly accepted. … sewer design for stopping the spread. One point had become especially clear: sanitation was key to creating a …

… century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … and Secretaries of State but also newspapermen and common citizens effused sympathy for the revolutionaries’ … the toll of the various interventions. Instead, the myopia comes from soft-pedaling explanations such as racism, toxic …

… miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … date to late September. By the time she recovered, a state commission recommended canceling the flight due to poor … in transport missions, rather than in combat.  During his visit with female pilots of the Krasnodar Aviation School in …

… the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … Africa, however, was never a foregone conclusion. America’s commitment to the Allied war effort after Pearl Harbor … came the lingering questions of when, where, and how their combined forces would engage German forces in the west?  …

… Brenna Miller     Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … in environmental history, and recent author of "A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North … don't have a fossil record of today. So it gets a lot more complicated when we look at present day extinction rates. …

… a million people. South Dakota, the stories revealed, had become the “Cayman Islands of the Heartland.” As unlikely as … costs associated with the rally impacted local people and visitors alike. Sky-high rents, for example, meant that some … in COVID cases in the state in the wake of the rally, the visitors had added $1.8 million dollars in tax revenue to …

… wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … act provided funding to outpatient clinics for patients to visit for therapy or medications. Other states followed … hidden away in an institution. Her father reportedly never visited her again. A graph showing the decrease in …

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … And we can do this in a number of ways. First, we can revisit our own analog collections. Just 1% of our analog … are digitized. So that gives us a huge opportunity to revisit those files with an edit, with a contemporary agenda, …

… is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … parts of Australia every few years and major droughts come at least once per generation. The Big Dry is one in a … per capita than any other continent, but it all tends to come in huge batches and to land in parts of the country …

… which we live. Current events, however dire or exciting or complicated they may be, have been made by history. They … know that the phrase “what is past is prologue” is a vital component of our jobs. We recognize that, in order to … be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations ot background …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … with the biggest questions himself, leaving a few glancing comments about such landmarks as the Emancipation … yield even when Lincoln offered the Confederacy gradual, compensated emancipation in 1862 and again in 1865. …