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… How was disco a vital part of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities in the 1980’s? …

… When Idi Amin, commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in Uganda on 25 …

… 1896, participants from 14 countries converged on Athens to compete in a festival that was simultaneously ancient and …

… 1918 Spanish Flu have on the United States and the British Commonwealth? …

… Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH for writing derogatory comments about Stalin in a private letter. He portrayed one …

… in the Islamic world and the reasons why they have become so explosive in Iraq, it is hardly surprising that … individuals accepted the authority of scripture as embodied in the Quran and the hadith , and recognized the … the Caliphate, based on his kinship with Muhammad and his service to Islam. 'Ali's assassination in 661 represented …

… future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep … population and make money for corporations and farmers. To combat spruce budworm outbreaks, DDT was sprayed liberally …

… related to Persian. In the largely mountainous region that comprises their homeland, over the centuries Kurds practiced … Kurdish leaders were largely exempt from taxation. A medieval castle in northeast Syria once known as Hisn al-Akrād … treaties reordered the map of the Middle East, paying lip service to this idea. Thus the colonial takeover of many …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … Este's stadium. Image by churl. But nowhere has baseball become more significant than in the Dominican Republic. In … on these plantations were seasonal workers from the West Indies, where cricket had been much more popular. These …

… he could have destroyed the Soviet Union. For Buchanan, Communism, with its rejection of free enterprise and foreign … by major Western politicians in the 1930s. It became the COMMON SENSE of the Cold War period. It lingers today. … One of these influential isolationists was Martin Dies, the Texas congressman who chaired the House Unamerican …

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … In 1928, Congress approved a bid by a consortium of utility companies to construct the Hoover dam on the Colorado River. … populations. Between 2012 and 2014 the U.S. National Park Service decommissioned two dams on the Elwha River: the …

… history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the complexity of events driving up world hunger over the past … current hunger crisis and population growth is indirect and complicated, but the situation in Africa looks more direct. … polycrisis, people in these states suffer and some even die as a result of starvation.  The Long History of Food …

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … rights. The recent increase in worksite raids comes, not coincidentally, at a moment when, despite a growing economy, … of history and director of Latin American and Ethnic Studies at Lewis & Clark College. …

… thereby over-ruling earlier decisions that courts were not competent to decide such political questions. Two years … the rapidly growing majority of urban dwellers (often newcomers to the state, immigrants from southern and eastern … differ somewhat between federal and state legislative bodies, but the basic rules (reapportion after every census …

… sometimes glitteringly attractive, creatures come from? While not an exact replica, the myths and legends of revenants, ghosts, and vampires of the late medieval and early modern periods present amazing parallels to … First, a note of caution. The word “vampire” did not come into existence, at least in the English-speaking world, …

… forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … all its successes, still sees itself under threat from a communist menace.  The Legacy of the War on North Korea  … greatly assisted the fledgling KPA. Mao Zedong’s own son died during the conflict. Soviet leader  Joseph Stalin , …