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… On Sunday, January 27, 2008, I phoned Nairobi to speak with two Kenyans whom I have known for … going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … is a variety of others with relatively small numbers. None of these ethnic or linguistic "blocks" dominates. The …

… August, 2017. The Confederate battle flag flies high on one side of the police line even as it burns on the other. … Edward Lee, a monument to the Confederate general. On one side of the ramparts, he is a tragic hero; on the other, … that of Nero’s by Vitellius. Damnatio memoriae was most common after regime change. Note however, that the names of …

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … nations in the world ditched Taipei and recognized Beijing one after the other. The avalanche started in late October … States acknowledged the PRC’s position that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China.  Yet the U.S. …

… of illegal entry, 2019. America’s southern border is one of the few weak spots in what otherwise has been one of the strongest launches to a presidential … they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of …

… long street. We were unaware that it carried the name of a one-time traitor who helped orchestrate the deaths of … American soldiers. After the Civil War, James Longstreet atoned for his traitorous behavior better than almost any … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases …

… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but … forces went in to banish in 2001— remains a force to be reckoned with. On today's History Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy … Crews ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and …

… but otherwise, most Westerners probably cannot distinguish one "stan" from another. Certainly, the current intensive … collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … were thrust into independence in 1991, they felt abandoned by Moscow and the "Slav republics" (Russia, Ukraine, …

… attacks worldwide happened off the coast of Somalia alone. Perhaps the most spectacular attack came on November … to sustain themselves in deep sea until the vessel actually comes by." Under the pirates' command, the Sirius Star … inhabit the whole coast and at place have set up chiefs." One-thousand seven hundred years later, in 1854, when the …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to the widespread availability of guns: Someone under 19 is killed every two hours by gunfire. It is gun … Million Moms March in Noble Company …

… from intervening when your friend wants to beat someone up. Keitt was censured by Congress, which is probably one reason the NRA was founded.   The reason Sumner deserved … standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the …

… were symbolic munYou would the announcement over the intercom: .. Youhear would hear the announcement sentiment was … It involved a pool cue in half and brandished it at anyone lack of courage nor dii.respect for the kept. follow-up … of and providing testimonies running the gamut anyone who came near him. Or the ina the war. Becoming a whims …

… No one's looking, because no one's inclined to look in such an unlikely place. But it … own independence from tyranny. But before 9/11, astute commentators warned about grandiose calls for democracy to …

… or mix’d of pale and red: and painful to the Patient,” as one 1714 text put it. This disease was ergotism: poisoning produced by exposure to the compounds found in a fungus that grows on wheat. In the … of the new drug’s profoundly psychoactive effects was one of the more famous accidents in the history of science. …

… occupation in early April, 2022 they discovered the damage done to its Taras Shevchenko monument. Bullets had hit the … would also contrast Ukrainians with Russians. “Kateryna,” one of his most beloved poems, tells the tragic tale of a … was, but we should keep this as it is now.” Learn More: The Complete Kobzar: The Poetry of Taras Shevchenko. Translated …

… of parade participants or of budget, but simply that no one is showing up to see the parade any more — a story … of wearing red poppies on Memorial Day and selling silk ones to raise money to assist disabled veterans. Her efforts … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or …

… capital and, with a population of nearly 1 million, over one-third of Albania’s inhabitants call the city home. What … dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … is remembered by many as oppressive and the country became one of the most isolated in the world. The population of …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, ostensibly annexed to the Russian Federation, and one epicenter of an international conflict over Ukraine that … into the sea, create a second warmer and sunnier climate zone along the south coast of the Black Sea, where lush …

… of Canada’s past held by many Canadians, this act functioned as an Indigenous ceremony and as a declaration of … Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … history of colonialism under the Canadian nation state. On one hand, public awareness of the problematic nature of the …

… 181 (II) partitioning Palestine into  two states , one Jewish and one Arab, with  Jerusalem  under a UN administration.  The … the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, …

… Howard Dean’s current bid to chair the Democratic National Committee is a test case of his political viability. It’s … since a spirited speech, endlessly rebroadcast and lampooned, derailed his innovative and well-funded 2004 … political player. An embarrassing public performance, even one that brings a campaign to a grinding halt, does not …

… “I don’t think they’re done conquering us yet. It just keeps happening.” —Hugo … violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … from places like Tlaxcala and Huexotzinco had destroyed one of the greatest cities of the early modern world, the …

… casts himself as a man of principles who, unlike his opponent, is ready, willing and able to stand up to political … the act. The Republican domination of Congress does not alone explain Bush’s record of agreeing to every bill that has … liberties or fiscally irresponsible. Even Calvin Coolidge, one of George W. Bush’s role models in terms of fiscal …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … tactic confirmed MacArthur as a "virtuoso strategist," said one analyst. Like MacArthur, Knight too has been regarded as … interference. Indiana, said an opposing coach, was the one institution where the basketball coach was larger than …

… of evil is as much a theological task as it is a military one. President Bush seems confident that God’s truth marches … he proclaimed that “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” This conviction …