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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… things can be both positive and negative. So I've been working on a page right now saying that classical Greece was …   Certainly scientific racism is arising at the same time, Martin Brunel and Black Athena tried to kind of connect the … Athena was a project as a series of volumes written by Martin Bernal, a specialist actually in China, who decided …

… 13-15 describe the establishment of the post-Roman western kingdoms and the context of the wars of reconquest led by …

… time was not on Stolypin's side; his assassination and Russia's entry into the World War I …

… Whether regarding Ukraine , Syria , or allegations of hacking in the 2016 American presidential election , those … it.” Unfortunately, both men also met a similar fate: assassination. 4. The Sale of Alaska Map of Russian America, … peace and not to fight.” Ultimately, Andropov responded thanking Smith for her letter and invited her and her family to …

… Romania. In Bulgaria, a number of high-profile, mafia-style assassinations of prominent businessmen and the judicial … that enabled constant surveillance over people. Lacking a civil society, an independent foreign policy, … essentials. However, shortages and price increases fed working-class discontent and led to strikes, demonstrations, …

… Benjamin Franklin, and others, did indeed contribute to making the United States a secular nation , and in Andrew … government grounded in historical examples. Copson is not making a case for or against religion as such – Richard … dreamt of an India “wholly tolerant, with its religions working side by side with one another.” The Indian constitution …

… usually was usually no less than a total ban on pistol-packing. The editor of the Black Hills Daily Times of Dakota … the city limits. Another Dakotan in August 1885 called “packing a gun” a “senseless custom,” and noted about a month … defeat of many attempts to legislate control. As U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo (D.-Minn.) noted, “There’s broad public support …

… Islamist group that the military had kept from taking power in January 1992. He underscored as well what he … But not only did the rebelling armies target humorists for assassination, surviving death lists that the militants had … lists makes clear that the insurgents prioritized attacking artists whose work resonated with the population and …

… during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa over the last 50 years … open things up for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A function at the … and the policy rhetoric coming out of Beijing. So after taking power on the mainland, the Chinese Communist Party …

… it did in NATO's war in Kosovo. The cumbersome decision-making structure in the conduct of that war made it a war by … incentives to entice states to join the cause in Iraq—making cooperation generously worthwhile for partner states. … on public opinion in the United States and the United Kingdom. Troop reductions by the United Kingdom in Iraq have …

… on June 9, demonstrations grew to over a million people, making them the largest protests in decades. Over the summer, … Xiuquan, the leader of the iconoclastic Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ, set about … The war devastated China, pushing the Qing to their breaking point and costing between 20 and 30 million lives. …

… civil war, but exacerbated it by arming Muslim, Arabic-speaking tribal militias (the Missiriya, the Rizeigat, and the … places, historic enmities persisted between Arabic-speaking settlers and southern tribes. Armed with the latest … notorious for many human rights violations such as the assassination of critical Fertit and Dinka tribal leaders as …

… rather than the wealthy, sophisticated and islamized kingdoms of West Africa, prepared Europeans for the shock of …