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… Olive remade herself into a proper Victorian lady, complete with a child (the couple adopted) and a beautiful … activist.  Olive's story is fascinating; Mifflin combines an inherently intriguing story with good writing … transitions. For more information on Mifflin and her work, visit: …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … grown more widely available. As the professionalization and commercialization of medicine began, more abortion options … century, social scientists began to publish statistics comparing birth rates among nations. As nationalism and …

… they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of China’s laboring community said in an 1876 address to Congress. “Because … U.S. immigration document. Upon his return from a temporary visit to China in 1895, Wong was denied re-entry to San …

… postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … Revolution , Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long … author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott …

… Ottoman rule for centuries. The Balkan Wars saw atrocities committed against civilians on a massive scale. The … However, the overall impact of these conflicts paled in comparison to the  First World War .  The magnitude of death … were forcibly resettled in a “homeland” most had never even visited.  The overall perception of Lausanne’s bloodless …

… fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered … of Parliament, killing King James I, the Lords, and the Commons in one stroke. The conspirators hoped the chaos … English Heritage . N.D. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/real-story-of-bonfire-night/ Sharpe, J. A. …

… thousand casualties on the first day of the invasion. To commemorate the battle, Origins offers ten of the most … Western Europe seemed imminent. 2. The Invasion was a Compromise Churchill and Roosevelt meet in 1943 at … celebrations commemorating the invasions draw thousands of visitors. Heads of state from the United States, the United …

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … right into the questions. Black and White Americans do race completely differently. This is proven by polls that are … hard work of ordinary, everyday people, and so if people visiting the museum or people in who take our classes, take …

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … for Native and Indigenous students. So thank you all for coming out today. Daniel and I are very excited to have a … there's that opportunity to engage. You can go and actually visit the Newark Earthworks Center over in Newark. They do …

… patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … into oil, Smeerenburg emerged as a fleshy El Dorado, complete with shops, bakeries, and even a casino and … via the northern coasts of Scandinavia and Russia—paid a visit to the Greenland ice cap. During this journey, he …

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … But you argue for a sense of historical perspective when it comes to evaluating the election. What is France's history … enjoyed being here.   Doug Dangler  For more Writers Talk visit www.writers talk.org.   …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … of this “second liberation,” inequalities and corruption—combined with an era of relative openness—led to calls for … reported that only a few family members were allowed to visit the graves, and Zhang Xianling of the Tiananmen …

… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable … environment, and what global role China might play in the coming years in confronting climate change. ( Image Source ) …

… damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … one of the most visible effects of sanctions to date, major companies left Russia. Multinational giants such as … with Russian subsidiaries nearly impossible. This was compounded by sanctions against major Russian banks and the …

… starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the … with money, but terrible for the millions who had little income or lost their jobs as a result of the reforms. It was … toward the U.S. President George W. Bush made a celebrated visit to the country in July 2003 in the wake of the Iraq …

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor and commander of the city’s German garrison, formally … destroying it, remains undeniably compelling to all who visit Paris today. American soldiers from the U.S. 4th …

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that … time to examine and address: charges of trafficking against communist Cuba, for example, or the long history of drug … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit the episode descriptions for citations to background …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … they expressed their disappointment in the trial’s outcome, pain over the loss of their child, appreciation for … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … afterwards, we have German settlers, Mennonites, that was common there. We have Jews coming there and it was a multinational population by the …

… violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … a variety of motives, and with an equally diverse set of outcomes, orphaned and abandoned children have circulated among … countries in question: orphanages, and the street. I have visited orphanages in several Asian countries; no child …