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… prior to Operation Husky. Those ships delivered 180,000 soldiers onshore but also 14,000 vehicles, 600 tanks, and 1,800 … in continents far removed from the conflict because of the compelling demand that war creates for forest and … and air systems. Speed took on new urgency. So did cheap, plentiful energy. Electricity generated by New Deal …

… birds—dried Indian corn, wheat, barley, and fish. The local diet also included lobster, eel, nuts, squash, beans, and … farmed no longer exist. Four centuries later, we have come to depend increasingly on only a handful of commercial … maize and potatoes—provide more than 60 percent of human dietary energy supply. The narrowing of crop diversity has …

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … such as faith or community. Historically, the decision to die on behalf of others has been the right of the … obligation, retain the traditional martyr’s willingness to die on behalf of others. In this new, mechanized form of …

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … October 1976. The resolution acknowledged the period’s tragedies and called them mistakes, laying blame at the feet of … of the “masses” and the “people” as workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals, youth, and officials, they are a …

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that the last man to die in the war was an American soldier, 23-year-old Henry Gunther of Baltimore. He was killed …

… before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … by the early 19th century all the Northern states had committed at least to eventual emancipation, slavery’s … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… I'm a professor of history and women's gender sexuality studies at Ohio State. And I teach on modern South Asia.   … wanted to build these new nano cars, which are very small, cheap cars in rural Bengal. And the government said, "Here … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… Both were born on February 12, 1809 — Darwin into a comfortable family in Shropshire, England, Lincoln into … political and moral actions.   Both revolutions share a commitment to the same proposition: that all human beings … are all created equal.   For his part, Darwin was a deeply committed abolitionist from a family of deeply committed …

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … view. The NRA even endowed a chair in Second Amendment studies at George Mason Law School with the express purpose of … this immense body of scholarship, and it will not be an easy task. The Justices will be forced to make decisions …

… Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to … government’s rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African … James E. Genova is Professor of History and Film Studies at The Ohio State University-Marion. He's the author of …

… many friendly moments as well. These constructive episodes complicate a history that is often painted as invariably … alliance was the historic meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe River in Germany on April 25, 1945. The … where they spent two weeks in 1983. Unfortunately, Smith died in a tragic plane crash in 1985, but her letter set the …

… ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain as … to Spanish and French, known as Catalan. 2. Catalunya: A Medieval Borderland Miniature of Charlemagne and four Muslim … of the Franks, evolved one of the earliest parliamentary bodies in Europe, the corts of Catalunya, which wielded a …

… were symbolic munYou would the announcement over the intercom: .. Youhear would hear the announcement sentiment was … aplomb. But the alliance was,alliance at the same time,at uneasy. Most of the But the was, the same young people who … are equal in about the way the hippies had been treatsoldier and leave him there to die? It would to attend anti-war …

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so … technological forces already. It's beginning to be a little cheaper to produce electricity by renewable means than it is … for their sponsorship. And again, thank you to the audience for joining us, for excellent questions and, you …

… be thousands, hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the … the global conscience with his images of emaciated bodies, dying children, and throngs of desperate refugees …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … Solar System at the center, surrounded by other celestial bodies and galaxies, and cosmic microwave radiation and plasma … heavier elements, beginning the cycle of creating the ingredients necessary for life. 6. It All Become Cloudy An image …

… debt ceiling. These routine but necessary measures became complicated when the Eagleton Amendment was added to them. … between those, led by J. William Fulbright, who favored the compromise, and those, such as Eagleton, who opposed it. Fulbright and his colleagues conceded that the compromise allowed Nixon to continue bombing for 45 days. …

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … as cotton in Uzbekistan)—even if the end of Moscow's subsidies for unprofitable factories put the local economies in a … and industry. The population can be charged for even the smallest administrative procedure, and the financial demands …

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … their protective city walls . Confined Athenians were easy prey to the plague that swept through their overcrowded … the leader Pericles. Pericles, an Athenian statesman who died during the Plague of Athens in 429 BCE. The results …

… husbands’ unfinished business. In Wyoming, William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … Wallace ran for governor on the platform that they embodied a continuation of each of their respective husband’s …

… Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics since 1980, having come to power on a wave of popular support developed during … lice-infested cells with their children strapped to their bodies. After describing the courageous acts of WOZA activists … labels assigned to them by serving as guerrilla soldiers. Like their female counterparts in Mozambique, who …

… dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … and live. One of the better examples is the “Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas” or the Memorial to the … the Berlin Wall itself. The city honors ordinary people who died trying to cross the border as well as those who …

… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed by the Alabama Supreme Court Chief … leading the Israelites to freedom.   Franklin, who had studied Hebrew, suggested that the inscription on the seal be … simple and emotional language that the Bible can supply has cheapened it into a set of political slogans to be used …

… about water: it rarely stays put. Wastes discharged into bodies of water tend to wind up in other bodies of water downstream. The 2015 Waters of the United … more and more reliant on toxic substances, the shortcomings of this approach became increasingly apparent. The …