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… And when the Declaration was examined in 1820, government officials feared that its ink was fading. In an effort to … was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the … to monitor the condition of the document using a $3 million computerized camera system designed by the Jet Propulsion …

… were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … a new government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the chair of which was Archbishop Desmond … resolution prevailed because police, military and political officials had already received blanket amnesty. Nor did the …

… Maidan could unite to take direct action against government officials. “None of this will be easy,” he wrote in a …

… From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with … of Java, which operated a currency system based on Chinese coins. A hierarchical economic relationship developed …

… What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit such a brutal act? Some commentators believe they have the answers to these … under four years of age in the United States was one for 360,000 people. In other words, Massachusetts under Puritan …

… Contemporary televised sport, in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get … everyone involved to both achieve a small-screen experience comparable to being there and agree that doing so was in … be called closed-circuit venues – around the country. The  official   record of the 1936 Games claims that over 160,000 …

… the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A … or Hefeweizen ) survived in spite of the ban on wheat in commercial and private production. The Duke of Wittelsbach, … brewery in Germany. Still, just a few blocks away from the site of Munich’s famous Oktoberfest beer festival, Sead …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … we are to block this new threat to our republic. The Posse Comitatus law was carefully observed for nearly 80 years, … the local constable. Sometimes the sheriff needed a posse comitatus, or just posse, as they say in Western movies. …

… democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … I battlefields to reconnect with their loved ones. Others visited the tombs of the unknown warriors, under the Arc de … Great Britain, or even Germany, in Russia there was no official memorialization of its soldiers or the immense …

… Agency (WADA) Dick Pound presented “The Independent Commission Report #1” to the press corps. The 323-page … country’s anti-doping establishment. WADA’s “Independent Commission Report #1” team (Richard Pound, Richard McLaren, … the 1904 and 1908 Olympic marathons respectively. While officials knew that both of them ingested strychnine along …

… that also brought his exploits to the attention of Navy officials and Congress. A bill was soon passed that provided … the state of Confederate fortifications there. Union Naval commanders acted quickly and successfully on this … the city. Impressed with his skill as a pilot, Union commanders eventually promoted Smalls to captain and gave …

… and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, and by Lieutenant Lebrasse. The Paris Commune, the revolutionary municipal government, had … facts of the king’s execution were omitted from the official record of the event. The memory of Louis was kept …

… lives or the devastation it has brought on families and communities across the nation. The historical origins of … or what some have called “The New Jim Crow” are complex. But an important episode in the gradual development … – posed to his right flank and legislative plans. As an official in the Justice Department noted, it was fine to …

… prevent, the next pandemic. The viruses that affect humans come in many types, and their impact on human communities … was detected at Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey, health officials sounded the alarm. The 1918 pandemic had been a … lacked the ability to produce the vaccine in the requisite quantities, and what it did produce appeared to cause …

… wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … many Russians did hope that Russia would magically become like the United States, the euphoric American … disregard of democratic processes, particularly when U.S. officials encouraged President Boris Yeltsin’s violent …

… giant leap forward for their cause. Both activists and news commentators have compared this ruling to Brown v. Board of Education in its … which gives gay couples who wish to have their relationship officially recognized the same legal rights as married …

… the Roman approach: overwhelming military force.Ý It is now official U.S. policy "to dissuade potential adversaries from … the Romans had paved for their own armies to travel. If war comes, Iraq will be using the computers and cell phones and radar it got from the United …

… motives and the messianic revolutionary ideals of Russian communism. 2 Originating in Czarist Russia, traditional … the Soviet Union's security. On the other hand, messianic communist ideals, which date back to Bolshevik upheaval of … was important to Khrushchev was to maintain the spread of communism. Khrushchev's calls for peaceful coexistence were …

… it mildly. Socialism, at least in the United States, has become a byword among Republicans for fiscally irresponsible … and a dramatic slashing of public expenditures to compete effectively in today's globalized economy. Ever … have all the advantages: ministerial experience, the requisite socialist credentials, and a successful term as …

… exchanges and cooperation between their armed forces. A competition in armaments between China and the United States … As a first step, the United States must invite Chinese officials to attend a conference to discuss the open skies …

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … the plague’s social and economic impact on the infected community. Our best historical source is Procopius of Caesarea (in modern Israel), a high official in the Roman government, who lived in …

… Road.” In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson , provided what has become the enduring description of the Revolutionary War when … and behind houses, they had a hard time distinguishing non-combatants from the militia-men who were shooting at them—a … their version of events to the London press before the official British report submitted by General Thomas Gage. By …

… one requiring an almost obsessive attention to detail, a commitment to exacting measurements, and above all a patient … to measure accurately a degree of latitude at the equator. Comparing it with another measurement of latitude made in … differences in the name of science, government and military officials were well aware that the shape of the earth was of …