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… of the above plus highways, the Internet, and interstate banking. The American capitalist system is a mixed economy, … support through establishing a legal system, encouraging banking expansion, and offering direct and indirect subsidies … private investment came from Europe, especially the United Kingdom.) An 1855 lithograph of the Erie Canal at Lockport, …

… and the eruption of separatist insurgencies in Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine. Sanctions imposed on Russia … and confusions about Ukrainian identity centuries in the making. Ukraine, Russia, and History Ukrainian-Russian … Ukrainian, but would expect the Ukrainian to switch to speaking Russian and not the other way around. Assimilation is …

… posthumous histories of his reign . This process of myth-making was initiated by Liu Bang himself upon his ascension to … (“Sir Liu” and “Madam Liu”). They were farmers, working the rice paddies that stretched out from the Yellow … to execute the other. Liu Bang narrowly avoided his own assassination and fled with his army. Four years later, in …

… could beat the depression-plagued Democratic candidate Martin Van Buren ("Little Van, the Used-Up Man"). They were … votes. There are other ways of counting losers besides looking at the final outcome. Some candidates in American …

… Abdul Nasser of Egypt, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and King Hasan of Morocco. Africa became a Cold War zone where … in Africa during the first decade of independence. Seeking for ways to compete with the superpowers for control … from the World Bank in the late 1960s to build a railway linking the copper-producing region with the sea in Tanzania. …

… devastation. Located in the heart of the “Old Town,” the Lutheran church of our Lady, Frauenkirche, was one of the … mass influx of refugees from war-torn parts of the globe seeking asylum in Germany. In fact, Dresden and surrounding … hold protests and demonstrations against Pegida. While walking through Neustadt, one sees many signs welcoming …

… took both rich and poor, rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer … its reach, and the poor suffered disproportionately. Strikingly, if a mother survived the plague, her children tended … resource wars—began a search for new ways to the East, making their way south along the African coast, launching an …

… came to be known as the Intifada, from the Arabic for “shaking off”) against Israeli rule, which had been in place for …

… monk, decides to bury the dead. In one of the most striking scenes from The Burmese Harp , Mizushima comes upon a … of the film, we learn Alyosha later died in the war, making the journey and its climax all the more moving. 5. Army … in the United States until 2006. 6. Overlord , United Kingdom, Stuart Cooper, 1975 Still from Overlord  (Criterion …

… so roundly rejected free trade. Yet what is even more striking is that Trump’s opposition to trade agreements appeared … Prize in 1945, the awarding committee summed up Hull’s thinking this way: “High tariffs are barriers obstructing the … right, Cordell Hull, Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the …

… newly elected Democratic president, Barack Obama, began working with Democratic majorities in the Senate and the House … lost to smuggling.   So in May 1773 Parliament passed and King George III assented to the Tea Act, which allowed the … get its taxes, and, because middlemen would no longer be taking a cut, colonists would actually be paying less for …

… a bourbon in the other, listening for the sounds of a cracking foundation. Karl-Rove-vs.-Tea-Party smackdown ! … winning an election in the first place. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren were ideal political partners in this new … party period. Roosevelt became President in 1901 upon the assassination of William McKinley. In 1904 , he was …

… that, "The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress" was predicated on the fact that "kings had always been involving and impoverishing their …  In a democracy, "no one man should hold the power of" embarking on war.   Some Democrats, led by Sen. John C. Calhoun, …

… with the island, in terms of perhaps colonizing or taking control of the island politically. But it wasn't until … which specified that we would not be occupying or taking control of the island. However, we would be able to … and to oppose the inter-American meeting. There was an assassination of a leader in Bogotá that had nothing to do …

… name Mack who stages the overthrow of an expansionist king named Yertle, reminds us of similar revolutions in the …

… its creation was also proof that the United States was taking a more active role in world affairs. The San Francisco … regional authority (the Big Four: the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China). His staff and American …

… considered a near-impossible task. Once again they are working to conclude an agreement with the Islamic Republic of … significant historical episodes of the United States working counter to the interests and wellbeing of the Iranian … according to a report published about a week after his assassination by the United States in January 2020, former …

… political opponents; planning a break-in at the Brookings Institution; forging cable messages intended to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging …

… languages and its 1962 census recorded residents speaking over 1600 native tongues. It is common to find people … is reflected rather spectacularly in Indian filmmaking. Although the world at large generally equates … but the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese as well. 2. Bhuvan Shome (Bengali, Hindi, …

… and cricket matches: Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. These protests, from the late-1960s into the … costs." Economic impact analyses are often guilty of overlooking the ways in which mega-events siphon off monies in the … to "second-order" events such as the Commonwealth Games (Kingston, Jamaica, 1966; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998), and …

… manned space flight do not object to the goal of people working and living in space but to the great expense. They view …

… to disrupt any clean break with events before 1994 by asking important questions. Though van Vuuren struggles … France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and United Kingdom, and China. Written in the style of an exposé, … In these, we see both private and public citizens seeking to maintain influence with the then-ruling party. While …

… Paris' architectural treasures and the local population. An assassination attempt on Hitler by German officers combined …

… money to the love of country, Iraq will not develop a working democracy. One of the chief reasons Saddam Hussein was … was only a step away from creating the age-old triad of king, priests and nobles. Beyond the issue of religious … It takes time. Americans know that. They are continually asking themselves, “How do we make democracy work the way it …