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… of a satellite” to the world. Pravda put a distinctively communist spin on the news, arguing that “artificial … appeared) would be used for legitimate research and not for competition in what he called “an outer-space basketball … two emerging superpowers. Equally worrisome was the larger message sent by the tiny sphere: Soviet technology was more …

… cloud was detected over Sweden did the full extent become known to the authorities in the Soviet Union’s capital … we—an international, multi-disciplinary group of scholars—visited in June 2016, we posed for a sombre photograph in … environmental organizations for the higher. Credits Our visit to the Chernobyl exclusion zone was funded …

… history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains language that Ronald … skills and commitment to his beliefs and gives him credit for ending the Cold War. On the other hand, it …

… and Voltaire. Diderot is remembered today mostly as a compiler of others people's work in his role as editor of … wrote a number of his own philosophical works, letters and commentaries.  Holbach is scarcely remembered at all, though … banker, and thus was dependent on the good will of his clientele, which included many of the aristocracy that the …

… The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … from Mali, North Africa, Egypt, and the Saharan oases visited the region of West and Central Africa known as … the Kanuri people in Borno state. And Kanuri scholars credit their ethnic group for spreading and preserving Islam …

… a lengthy analysis in July 1989 explaining how the “anti-communist forces” of the capitalist world, led by the U.S. … prophetic. One after another, most of the world’s Communist governments collapsed, in an eerie reversal of the … of leaders in the self-styled “Free World” to claim credit for the “victory” of course lent credence to the …

… the first U.S. general killed in World War II, are not names that come to mind for most people.   That's because this is not … of Honor for their actions in the campaigns. At first their loyalty was questioned, but only once in their 71-year … Indigenous Communities …

… Within fifteen years, Enron executives transformed their company from a middling firm into the seventh-largest … regulatory vacuum. Then they covered their tracks with complicated transactions that lined insiders’ pockets. In … by establishing hundreds of dummy corporations.  Enron took credit for the dummies’ profits, but not their losses. …

… Glory, at Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia. The monument commemorates those who died defending the city 1942-1943. In … The 85-metre Soviet statue The Motherland Calls , sited on a hill that saw some of the fiercest fighting in … , for example, smashed box office records for a domestic production. Russians’ desire to connect Stalingrad’s …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … group of Major Leaguers including Babe Ruth, for example, visited countries like Japan in 1934 not just to spread the … for example, speaks impeccable Dominican Spanish . He credits his time in the minor leagues with Dominican and …

… the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … the later period of George’s reign, the Greek state’s domestic and foreign policies were characterized by the costs … Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF—Greece’s creditors—rejected the proposals and would only agree to …

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … we can expect a record of more than 7,000 arrests at worksites by the end of 2007. The history of immigrant … ever since 1917, when armed vigilantes known as Loyalty Leaguers rounded up more than 1,100 copper mine …

… the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … school breakfast and summer feeding; and when summer comes and schools close the drop in participation is dramatic. … and Dole.   For instance, communities can help set up sites for summer feeding. If enough people volunteer and …

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … drug policy, which only lasted for about 18 months. But credit where it's due. He's the only president to send equal … for Harry Anslinger was that the truth was exactly the opposite: it was Chiang Kai-Shek’s allies who were trafficking …

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … “You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” But few comedies have endured like Dr. Strangelove, and Strangelove … most absurd foundations. The entire movie, from the opening credits that depict two airplanes having sex, to the …

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … Tribes and it was removed from this region as settlement poured across the Ohio River from Pennsylvania. And it … in the Ohio Valley. That is what happened. And so that site and the document, the 1795 treaty that Melissa alluded …

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … particularly the idea of the Minuteman. Thus, gun rights sites on the internet invariably carry images of the … did not mean what gun rights advocates think it means comes from the work of the historian Nathan Kozuskanich. His …

… London, city displaced court as the preferred site of the social scene, while new money engendered a … of intense familiarity with distance.  This is the "compound" that makes the celebrity sacred in modern society: … the realms of public politics, civil society, and private domestic life are increasingly fractured and enclosed into …

… bases, which may now be concluding, is not new. The names should have been changed a long time ago. The … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases … American Civil War. In 1942, at the behest of Robert Sink, commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the U.S. …

… case effectively created the legal context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you … of a Western Sugar refinery ; sugar today (right) comes in many forms. Notably absent from the lawsuit was the … (and handsomely paid in their representation of their clients). By contrast, the prosecutors had limited funding …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship between England and the rest of … and knights to seize most landed estates. He demanded a loyalty oath from his subjects and conducted a comprehensive …

… world, the more necessary a knowledge of foreign nations becomes. Yet Congress is trying to handicap that endeavor by … Cold War policies lost their jobs, while those who reached “loyal” conclusions found favor from public and private …

… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … by law.” Colonial leaders carefully policed gun use. James Madison, before framing the Constitution and Bill of … In 1792, Congress gave the president power to select two sites for the nation’s federal armories. George Washington …