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… to address the economic situation of the poor and working classes through new social welfare programs. 2. Empire, … modeled on European fascism. He courted the industrial working classes through state-controlled labor unions and … to politics as elected president in 1950 based on working-class support. His inability to manage a slowing …

… members — Russia, China and France, as well as the United Kingdom and the United States — concur or abstain. …

… William McIntosh, in an oil painting by Charles Bird King. Here McIntosh and Little Warrior’s paths met. National … at the March 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (and making McIntosh a brigadier general). But the victorious …

… coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother … nation listened. And what followed, were the most groundbreaking laws ever written in the history of humankind, to … the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War. So if we're thinking about 1968, the Tet Offensive, and then the increase in …

… 1000 years. Gradually, they became more widely known as the Kings of Khorezm, or the Khorezmshahs. The Afrighids …

… True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going to the hospital. He took advantage of the assassination attempt to further attack his opponents, …

… ten million strong Hindu minority, who were blamed for stoking rebellion and undermining Muslim solidarity. This … Sheikh Hasina Wajed, prioritized their obsessions with seeking justice for past wrongs over the present needs of their …

… Nile and South Kordofan states also played a role in sparking the popular uprisings. In particular, Darfuri students … British separated the predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking north from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and … the region since 1821. In 1898, however, the United Kingdom and Egypt conquered the Sudanese Mahdist state and …

… that of Marie Laveau, bearing graffiti Xs left by tourist making a wish to her spirit (left); “condos” at St. Louis No. … guard over the St. Louis Cathedral (named for the child King of France), the Spanish Cabildo (the seat of the …

… progressed, and as more came out from what Snowden was leaking is, I did get surprised at how far reaching some of the … framework. But that they'd also just been straight up breaking into the Google and Yahoo kind of cloud interface and … there's a little smiley face, written in by the presenter making it to demonstrate like this is where we're tapping into …

… War II. Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and led the push …

… pass by 1916 or so. But the original Populists were also making an argument about their own centrality to American … of beliefs. It is a method of identifying a villain and shaking a fist. This is so even if it also reflects real policy … in Pennsylvania , second in Wisconsin —before his near-assassination was another story. That Wallace pioneered much …

… believe that to be true. Unlike alcohol, excessive pot smoking has not been unambiguously implicated in violent … used in rope and ships’ riggings. But the practice of smoking marijuana leaf in cigarettes or pipes was largely … “law and order” to a nation jolted by riots, protests, and assassinations, Richard Nixon aggressively recruited …

… dupes of bold & cunning imposture.” And writing to Rufus King, Hamilton lamented “Truly, My dear Sir, the prospects … surprising since slavery had contorted Jefferson’s thinking for decades. But as Rasmussen charts it, Jefferson …

… Let's stop looking to Vietnam in the 1960s for clues about what to do in … we have set out to construct a political system to our liking. Similarly, we have been caught by surprise to find … Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the Philippines. The …

… Let's stop looking to Vietnam in the 1960s for clues about what to do in … we have set out to construct a political system to our liking. Similarly, we have been caught by surprise to find … Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the Philippines. The …

… have run for president, several others have come within striking distance of the nation’s top post through the line of … States finally elects its first female president? By looking at several of these women and their campaigns for the … who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own …

… that prohibited certain things, places, and actions. Breaking kapu, such as harvesting resources at the wrong time, … watch cultural practitioners give demonstrations in making poi (pounded taro) and kapa cloth, and take a guided … Charles Bishop—an American businessman who married into the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi’s royal family—purchased the land that …

… Looking back over the stories relating to China that have … twelve months is a strange experience. One of the most striking things is the sheer diversity of topics with a Chinese … distribute a film about the Dalai Lama’s life directed by Martin Scorsese. At first, it looked as if this feud in the …

… intervention – medical assistance, constitution-making, adoption and in-country development – is propelled by … or deceased heirs on the other. In his path breaking book, The Kindness of Strangers , John Boswell uncovered a previously hidden history, tracking the lives of children abandoned in Europe from the late …

… as it could be kept a southern problem, Northerners’ thinking went, they would bear little moral responsibility. It …