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… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed by the Alabama Supreme Court Chief … leading the Israelites to freedom.   Franklin, who had studied Hebrew, suggested that the inscription on the seal be … It read in that language “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” In addition, the Liberty Bell was inscribed …

… No disaster scenario more challenges human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike … so too can a homo-apocalypse. This miniscule possibility becomes all the more unnerving because increasingly scientists … had visited. Yet their commitment to empirical research superseded their enthusiasm for aliens. A view of the …

… five to ten individuals planted 12 anti-tank mines at a telecommunications complex, destroying two large radio antennas. More recently, … on orders from Moscow. In all likelihood, the Russian soldiers themselves decided to intervene because they had …

… the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … children. At the same time, the frantic search for remedies, and the wide media fascination for these cases, has … institutions that had developed to supplement the parental supervision of children—such as teachers at child care …

… often waited for controversies surrounding a President to die down before opening contentious documents. A federal … blocked documents while he was alive. Two years after Nixon died in 1994, Archives’ officials finally released the … honorably may struggle with his past. Governance is complex and politics messy. Laws demand disclosure of what …

… Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this … they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two … during the war, it became a rallying cry for black soldiers to “Remember Fort Pillow!” After the war, General …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … to the Ohio Valley. Some 6,000 Cincinnatians would die, 5% of the city’s roughly 115,000 population. And death, … After Cincinnati’s initial December outbreak, which steadied to a trickle over spring, the cholera erupted in the …

… alternate judge John Parker, French judge Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, French alternate judge Robert Falco. As the … from its worst impulses—how to create a new international community based on “respect for the human person” and belief … other British and French judges (Norman Birkett, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, Robert Falco) then elaborated on the crimes …

… to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to become the pattern for future U.S. interventions. But there is … enemy chooses to attack U.S. civilians, rather than soldiers, with bombs or missiles? If civilians once again …

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just … slavery by the military to provide “comfort” to Japanese soldiers at “comfort stations” dispersed throughout Japan’s … since July 25 alone and in the face of Japan’s considerable superiority in signals intelligence (SIGINT), including …

… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … By the early 1970s, American involvement in Vietnam had become a strategic disaster. The war was sucking U.S. economic … United States lacks the wisdom and maturity required of a superpower. As in Vietnam, withdrawal from Iraq is not an …

… in Kyiv,  December 2013 The year 2014 will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into … we cannot even enjoy our victory there. Because people died, people who in the critical moment, with wooden boards … of a generation of people: why did I survive when others died? Maybe I'm more base, more cunning, a bigger coward? …

… Kentucky school, 1946 Common Core is a set of voluntary standards in the United … isn’t any more debate, we’ll know we’re in serious trouble. Common Core is no exception and now faces detractors from … For the left, represented largely by teachers’ unions, Common Core is an attempt to take away workplace autonomy …

… the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop … Archbishop of Mainz—Luther was following a longstanding medieval tradition of calling for debate within the university … success also depended on the existence of an interested audience. This audience included participants in a literary …

… picnics, parades, and softball games to remember those who died fighting our country’s wars. It’s rarely a day for … not incidentally, killed or wounded over 27,000 American soldiers. Apologizing to those soldiers can’t undo the damage … ago, on May 30, 1945, by Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., commander of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy. Truscott was …

… in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … and celibate was the best way to serve the Lord. In the medieval European hierarchy of female virtue, the unmarried … was an authority relationship rather than a love one. In medieval Europe, and in the New England colonies of America, …

… other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … when 300 student protestors were killed by police and soldiers only ten days before the start of the Games. Also … There would certainly be a much smaller television audience, and therefore the supply of money would shrink …

… “North Berwick Witches” tried with her is exceptionally complex, involving politics, religion, magic, and conspiracy … personally involved in Agnes Sampson’s trial would soon become king of England, as James I, where he established the Stuart monarchy, commissioned the King James Bible, wrote an important …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine who aims to bring serious history to a wide audience! Based in London and published monthly, History Today …

… an enterprising radio newsman unsatisfied with the comments from an obscure Midwestern astronomer, sped to … to drink a bottle of poison.  Two people reportedly died from heart attacks.  The Washington Post declared … at Princeton were conducting the first serious studies of the effects of mass communications on audiences.  …

… Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) died, like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, on the very same … years ago this month. In fact, England and Spain, the two superpowers at the time, one on its ascent, the other on the … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is …

… impact outside Europe than in it, he nevertheless makes a compelling case for viewing these wars as events of truly … rest of the world in a breathtakingly wide span of case studies ranging from Chile to Japan . These case studies illustrate that the Napoleonic Wars exerted an …

… northern China. Amid this misery, a mysterious group that combined traditional Chinese folk culture, including martial … court fled Beijing for  Xi’an . Western troops proceeded to commit atrocities of their own, looting much of the city and … Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 . New York: Walker & Company, 2000. Silbey, David J.  The Boxer Rebellion and the …

… never set. How did these backward ninth-century Europeans accomplish all this? The obvious answer is "science and … that divided space into numbers. The maps overflowed with compass bearings, depth measurements, tide tables and … and bureaucrats used double-entry bookkeeping to control commerce, industry and government. Double-entry bookkeeping …